John H wrote:
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:21:51 -0500, Jim wrote:

Harry wrote:
On 12/26/09 12:20 AM, Steve B wrote:
wrote in message
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On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:23:51 -0800, "Steve B"
wrote:

"John wrote in message
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...Change is coming!

The NYTimes is giving seniors a Christmas present to ponder.

http://tinyurl.com/yl9vumo

"Peter R. Orszag, the White House budget director and a disciple of
the Dartmouth data, has noted. "We can no longer afford an overall
health care system in which the thought is more is always better,
because it's not.""

Another - "Because Dartmouth's analysis focuses solely on patients who
have died, a case like Mr. Putrus's would not show up in its data.
That is why critics say Dartmouth's approach takes an overly
pessimistic view of medicine: if you consider only the patients who
die, there is really no way to know whether it makes sense to spend
more on one case than another."

A preview of things to come?
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Have a Super Christmas and a Spectacular New Year!

John H
If they were serious about saving money, wouldn't they just all get
on a
conference call instead of flying their jets to Denmark to schmooze
around?

Barry has some expensive tastes, and so does Michelle.

Steve

Jon Stewart pointed out that these climate savers managed to lease
every limo in western europe, some couriered in from as far away as
Germany so nobody had to share a ride.
Well, you can't have people who are interested in saving the planet
have to
ride two to a limo or two to a jet, now can you. It's just not done.

I wonder how many heating oil tanks could have been filled for what was
spent on that extravaganza.

BTW, what's a caviar wedge? I understand they ate a lot of caviar. That
would have bought a lot of turkeys at the shelters.

I bet they had expensive cognac and real Cuban cigars, too.

Nothing too good for our tax dollars.

Steve


Does anyone recall "stevie" objecting when bush was spending like a
drunken sailor, and cutting taxes for the wealthy at the same time?

Hypocrisy, thy real name is republican/conservative. Nothing is piled
higher than republican/conservative b.s.


Nothing except the burgeoning public debt.

Did someone justify Obama's spending using Bush as a rationale?

How silly.

I think it was Krausie that first introduced that insane rationalization.
Now that his boy isn't doing so well, we can look forward to Krausie
vocalizing the DNCs lame apologies for their shining star tripping all
over himself.
It's going to be a busy two years for Krausie. I'll bet that even Sarah
Palin could beat his boy in 2012.