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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: Matt C on October 19, 2010, 02:28:00 AM
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I really don't know exactly what is up with this picture. In the contest pictures before it was his right triceps that was injured, not his left. Although it would make sense that this is from an old injury that the Canadian health care system just now managed to fix. WOO!!! Socialized health care!!! Wait 18 MONTHS for simple, routine procedures!!! Ration care with a bunch of welfare scum because it is only fair since they are "oppressed" by society!!! Yeah baby, change you can believe in!!
Just kidding. Well sort of. On a serious note, Americans: Please keep your free market health care system. Canada and other socialist countries need to parasite off it after all. If Frank DID get a triceps injury, it would probably take months to get it repaired. And injuries like that really should be dealt with ASAP.
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It looks kind of badass and he's still got some pretty decent thickness in the muscle.
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He looks like he's scared of the guy in the pic with him.
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WOO!!! Socialized health care!!! Wait 18 MONTHS for simple, routine procedures!!! Ration care with a bunch of welfare scum because it is only fair since they are "oppressed" by society!!!
Offer to pay on the spot for a private room for the birth of your first son only to have no more private rooms left because welfare recipients get first dibs, paid for by your tax dollars!
WOO!!! Bring on communism baby!! Canada rules!
PS: The 2 for $2 Gatorades in the USA cost around 2 for $5 ON SALE in Canada and can be as much as 2 for $8. Socialism is awesome!!!
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He looks like he's scared of the guy in the pic with him.
What does this have to do with Canada's health care system being shit compared to the American system?
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What does this have to do with Canada's health care system being shit compared to the American system?
Fuck healthcare, just self medicate like GH15 does.
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Fuck healthcare, just self medicate like GH15 does.
Exactly! Which I'm sure Frank does. It's just that when a Canadian bodybuilder gets an injury they would have to wait god knows how long for surgery. Those kinds of injuries really should be dealt with immediately. I hope Frank comes back but I'm not sure how motivated he is to compete. I read on the boards once that he is lazy regarding self-promotion.
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I have read the Canadian economy is about to implode.... personal debt levels are off the charts.
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Exactly! Which I'm sure Frank does. It's just that when a Canadian bodybuilder gets an injury they would have to wait god knows how long for surgery. Those kinds of injuries really should be dealt with immediately. I hope Frank comes back but I'm not sure how motivated he is to compete. I read on the boards once that he is lazy regarding self-promotion.
I would like to fuck his sister.
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I really don't know exactly what is up with this picture. In the contest pictures before it was his right triceps that was injured, not his left. Although it would make sense that this is from an old injury that the Canadian health care system just now managed to fix. WOO!!! Socialized health care!!! Wait 18 MONTHS for simple, routine procedures!!! Ration care with a bunch of welfare scum because it is only fair since they are "oppressed" by society!!! Yeah baby, change you can believe in!!
Just kidding. Well sort of. On a serious note, Americans: Please keep your free market health care system. Canada and other socialist countries need to parasite off it after all. If Frank DID get a triceps injury, it would probably take months to get it repaired. And injuries like that really should be dealt with ASAP.
bullshit!...this bodybuilding caper has your priorities all warped.
if his injury was life threatening or needed attention because it would end up making him a burden on society then rest assured it'd have been taken care of.
the truth is that he couldve worked, couldve parented, and couldve contributed to society with his silly little triceps injury just fine.
its GOOD that your heatlh care system took ages to fix it- its great that he got it fixed for free..if that is what happened.
IF he got it fixed for free then its an indication of a society that has it correct..and its his damn fault that he doesnt choose to pay for private coverage that wouldve got him into an expensive private hospital to do whatever surgery he wanted, when he wanted or needed it.
you have a choice to have your taxes pay for essential care, or pay some extra for immediate needs...and its a choice.
so stop bitching and whining. The US system is crap and doesnt work and widens the gap between the haves and have nots. its the laughing stock of the modern world.
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Offer to pay on the spot for a private room for the birth of your first son only to have no more private rooms left because welfare recipients get first dibs, paid for by your tax dollars!
WOO!!! Bring on communism baby!! Canada rules!
PS: The 2 for $2 Gatorades in the USA cost around 2 for $5 ON SALE in Canada and can be as much as 2 for $8. Socialism is awesome!!!
thats because you are the dipshit that didnt keep up your policies and book ahead..so this couldnt happen.
thats right, blame everyone else for your pathetic life.
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PS: The 2 for $2 Gatorades in the USA cost around 2 for $5 ON SALE in Canada and can be as much as 2 for $8. Socialism is awesome!!!
Are you nuts Matt? I get sports drinks for 6 for $4. Even name brands. How many mls are we talking? Hell the gas stations sell gatorade for 1.75 and their prices are much higher than the grocery stores in Toronto.
If you hate Canada so much the border is nearby. No ones keeping you here.
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I have read the Canadian economy is about to implode.... personal debt levels are off the charts.
The Canadian economy is much better off then the US economy. Our banks didn't over leverage like the US ones did, and are very solid. Our dollar is on par with the US, and employment is fine. Our soiallist government stopped the big banks and investment houses from the fraudulent housing meltdown the US had. The US is just printing money at this point and can't finance it's own debt. The US dollar is going down the drain.
Of course saying all that I still prefer my time in the US during the 80's - 90's. It was one hell of a party. Sadly American today are paying for the post party hangover of unlimited over spending. The excess was nice. ;D
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I really don't know exactly what is up with this picture. In the contest pictures before it was his right triceps that was injured, not his left. Although it would make sense that this is from an old injury that the Canadian health care system just now managed to fix. WOO!!! Socialized health care!!! Wait 18 MONTHS for simple, routine procedures!!! Ration care with a bunch of welfare scum because it is only fair since they are "oppressed" by society!!! Yeah baby, change you can believe in!!
Just kidding. Well sort of. On a serious note, Americans: Please keep your free market health care system. Canada and other socialist countries need to parasite off it after all. If Frank DID get a triceps injury, it would probably take months to get it repaired. And injuries like that really should be dealt with ASAP.
your thinking is illogical - and you are throwing the baby out with the bath water.
social health care is a fantastic idea in theory, its simply that the thinkers of the idea didn't account for millions of uneducated bums that refuse to work and pay back into the system.
if we erradicated anyone and everyone who didn't pay into it via taxes, then it would be the greatest health care system in the world, plus we would have the added bonus of a much higher mortality rare among these leeches. ;)
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I would like to fuck his sister.
who is she? post some pics
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Interesting, I've never known anyone to have to wait months for surgery. Perhaps he should have come to Manitoba.
Shit, I had my forearm surgery done in 2 days.
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you gotta feel bad for a person who loses the one thing that they have going
its like a painter losing his hands or a ballet dancer losing toes
this guys arms paid his bills
just another sad comment on bodybuilders, this guy was probably broke, had no health insurance, and couldn't afford treatment.............so he has to wait for what basically amounts to health welfare
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Offer to pay on the spot for a private room for the birth of your first son only to have no more private rooms left because welfare recipients get first dibs, paid for by your tax dollars!
WOO!!! Bring on communism baby!! Canada rules!
PS: The 2 for $2 Gatorades in the USA cost around 2 for $5 ON SALE in Canada and can be as much as 2 for $8. Socialism is awesome!!!
the only reason its 'faster' in america is because you have to pay $948576959759 for anything. and if you cant pay, you die. yeah its great i know.
get in a car accident? get cancer? need a transplant? sure we'll take care of you. we'll give you a few days to recover then send you the bill for $800,000 (thus crippling you financially for life).its so fucking awesome !!!
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the only reason its 'faster' in america is because you have to pay $948576959759 for anything. and if you cant pay, you die. yeah its great i know.
get in a car accident? get cancer? need a transplant? sure we'll take care of you. we'll give you a few days to recover then send you the bill for $800,000 (thus crippling you financially for life).its so fucking awesome !!!
Agree. A good health care system is important for most of the population which, unless you're lucky or very successful, is what you belong to.
And even with that some things like dental implants are mostly beyond financial reach.
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I really don't know exactly what is up with this picture. In the contest pictures before it was his right triceps that was injured, not his left. Although it would make sense that this is from an old injury that the Canadian health care system just now managed to fix. WOO!!! Socialized health care!!! Wait 18 MONTHS for simple, routine procedures!!! Ration care with a bunch of welfare scum because it is only fair since they are "oppressed" by society!!! Yeah baby, change you can believe in!!
Just kidding. Well sort of. On a serious note, Americans: Please keep your free market health care system. Canada and other socialist countries need to parasite off it after all. If Frank DID get a triceps injury, it would probably take months to get it repaired. And injuries like that really should be dealt with ASAP.
From what i read online, he was in a serious Car wreck a few months ago not sure if that Cut was from the accident tho... and i believe he no longer lives in canada, he lives out in palm springs, ca. where he was doing some personal training
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the only reason its 'faster' in america is because you have to pay $948576959759 for anything. and if you cant pay, you die. yeah its great i know.
get in a car accident? get cancer? need a transplant? sure we'll take care of you. we'll give you a few days to recover then send you the bill for $800,000 (thus crippling you financially for life).its so fucking awesome !!!
You are WAAAYYY over exagerating. I had a mediocre $10 an hour job after while I was going to school, and they offered private HC that I paid like fucking $20 a month for, and it paid for almost everything. It was rediculous. I think the most I had to pay was like $40. Hospital visits, etc. So its out there if you look for it and work for it. Its part of that whole aspect of scoping out your job, and weighing the benefits.
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who is she? post some pics
Kyla McGrath
(http://www.emusclemag.com/content/mmi307/kyla_mcgrath.jpg)
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You are WAAAYYY over exagerating. I had a mediocre $10 an hour job after while I was going to school, and they offered private HC that I paid like fucking $20 a month for, and it paid for almost everything. It was rediculous. I think the most I had to pay was like $40. Hospital visits, etc. So its out there if you look for it and work for it. Its part of that whole aspect of scoping out your job, and weighing the benefits.
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I spent ONE DAY at the hospital 3 months ago over an asthma attach in los angeles , bill was $9,000 good thing i had that insurance
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I spent ONE DAY at the hospital 3 months ago over an asthma attach in los angeles , bill was $9,000 good thing i had that insurance
It's ridiculous to the point where if you don't have an insurance and suffer from something not potentially fatal you might contemplate not going to the hospital because the medical bills might mess up your life more than the illness itself. Quite ironic.
Anyone that defends a system where 50 out of 300 million people can't afford proper health care is nothing short of an asshole.
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Wasn't Frank in a bad car wreck recently?
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your thinking is illogical - and you are throwing the baby out with the bath water.
social health care is a fantastic idea in theory, its simply that the thinkers of the idea didn't account for millions of uneducated bums that refuse to work and pay back into the system.
wouldn't that make it a shitty idea then? me fucking supermodels is a fantastic idea in theory as well, but the reality's different, once you account for my ugliness.
if we erradicated anyone and everyone who didn't pay into it via taxes, then it would be the greatest health care system in the world, plus we would have the added bonus of a much higher mortality rare among these leeches. ;)
we have this, it's called the free market health system. no pay = no play.
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I spent ONE DAY at the hospital 3 months ago over an asthma attach in los angeles , bill was $9,000 good thing i had that insurance
Insane. Where's Coach to say health care doesn't need fixing.
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I spent ONE DAY at the hospital 3 months ago over an asthma attach in los angeles , bill was $9,000 good thing i had that insurance
yes, and they settled with your insurance companies for pennies on the dollar. medical billing is a scam. one of the guys that works for us cut his finger at work, and they billed us $450 for one advil. doctor's treatment was half hour at $1800/hr for a total of $1350 for halfr an hour, one bandaid and one advil.
we settled for $150 "if you mail the check today". ::)
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yes, and they settled with your insurance companies for pennies on the dollar. medical billing is a scam. one of the guys that works for us cut his finger at work, and they billed us $450 for one advil. doctor's treatment was half hour at $1800/hr for a total of $1350 for halfr an hour, one bandaid and one advil.
we settled for $150 "if you mail the check today". ::)
Funny thing was they didnt want to release me, i told them i need to leave after a day, i had tix to the dodger game and the doctor came in and said i would request you stay for atleast 3 days in the hospital.. i can just imagine the bill for 3 days if i would have stayed like they requested, over $25,000 for some injections and fancy monitoring machines
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listen cock muncher - what you have is terrible.
if i get surgery under your health system i have to pay thousands of dollars on top of what i've already paid into it, if i get surgery under mine i pay nothing.
see the difference there billy bob ?
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like 2 years ago I had a sudden onset of acute diverticulitis and had to go to the ER. spent probably about 6 hours there, most of that just waiting and maybe an hour of actual interaction and tests. bill came to $10k.
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Dude forearms are just incredible no matter how many times you see them you still say "damn!"
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The Canadian economy is much better off then the US economy. Our banks didn't over leverage like the US ones did, and are very sold. Our dollar is on par with the US, and employment is fine. Our soiallist government stopped the big banks and investment houses from the fraudulent housing meltdown the US had. The US is just printing money at this point and can't finance it's own debt. The US dollar is going down the drain.
Of course saying all that I still prefer my time in the US during the 80's - 90's. It was one hell of a party. Sadly American today are paying for the post party hangover of unlimited over spending. The excess was nice. ;D
Sounds like they just delayed things to me...
Few Canadians realize is that the housing market has avoided collapse (prices are down 32 per cent in the U.S.) because the Harper Conservatives directed the CMHC to change the mortgage rules to effectively make the Canadian government the biggest sub-prime lender in the world.
The facts are that over 90 per cent of existing mortgages in Canada are “securitized” -- that’s the practice of pooling mortgages (or other assets) and then issuing new securities backed by the pool -- MBSs, or Mortgage Backed Securities. That’s what happened with the sub-prime mortgages in the U.S. which (because the whole pool was so diversified) received triple A ratings by the rating agencies. Losses around the world amounted to hundred of billions of dollars.
Credit is still tight in the U.S. because no private investor has the stomach for such risky MBSs. That’s because those losses were private and not back-stopped by any government. In Canada, mortgages have been securitized for years. The Canadian-issued securitizations are called National Housing Act, Mortgage-Backed Securities. Unlike the failed U.S. pools,in order to find buyers for securitized mortgage pools, the Government of Canada has put guarantees on them by directing CMHC to guarantee all Canadian mortgages.
So long as borrowing requirements were tight, the percentage of loans that were securitized remained modest. But in 2007 the Harper government allowed the CMHC to dramatically change its rules: it dropped the down payment requirement to zero percent and extended the amortization period to 40 years. In light of the mortgage meltdown in the US, Finance Minister Flaherty moderated those rules in August 2008 (it’s now 5 per cent down and 35 years). But these are still relatively very loose requirements and securitization has taken off.
By the end of 2007 there were $138 billion in NHA securitized pools outstanding and guaranteed by CMHC -- 17.8 per cent of all outstanding mortgages. By June 30, 2009, that figure was $290 billion, a figure Lepoidevin says “…exceeds the total value of mortgages offered by CMHC in its 57 years of existence!” CMHC’s stated goal was to guarantee $340 billion by the end of this year and is on track to reach $500 billion by the end of 2010. Total mortgage credit in Canada will grow by 12-14 per cent of GDP in 2009
Keeping credit flowing: At what cost?
In an effort to prop up the real estate market in 2008 (when affordability nosedived) the Harper government directed the CMHC to approve as many high-risk borrowers as possible and to keep credit flowing. CMHC described these risky loans as “…high ratio homeowner units approved to address less-served markets and/or to serve specific government priorities.” The approval rate for these risky loans went from 33 per cent in 2007 to 42 per cent in 2008. By mid-2007 average equity as a share of home value was down to 6 per cent -- from 48 per cent in 2003. At the peak of the U.S. housing bubble, just before it burst, house prices were five times the average American income; in Canada today that ratio is 7.4:1 almost 50 per cent higher.
This high-risk policy actually prevents the natural playing out of the recession -- that is, the purging of the excesses of the previous boom period. CMHC’s easy-money resulted in a 9.3 per cent increase in Canadian household debt between June 2008 and June 2009.
Even bank economists admit to being concerned about a housing bubble. In a September research note, Scotiabank economists Derek Holt and Karen Cordes said, “…lenders have been scrambling to get enough product to put into the federal government’s Insured Mortgage Purchase Program over the months, and that may have translated into excessively generous financing terms.” Holt suggested that in two or three years -- or whenever the Bank of Canada increases interest rates -- many of these mortgages would be at risk.
The banks themselves have taken on virtually no new risk. According to CMHC numbers in the two years from the beginning of 2007 to January 2009 Canadian banks increased their total mortgage credit outstanding by only 0.01 per cent. Fully 90.5 per cent of all growth in total Canadian mortgage credit outstanding since 2007 has been accounted for by Mortgage Backed Securities. Of course, the banks have no interest in saying no if you have qualified for a securitized CMHC loan -- because they bear no risk if you default.
If that sounds like sub-prime mortgages, it should. Sub prime is any loan below prime. If a bank refuses you a loan, and CMHC gives you one, the loan is sub-prime. As Lepoidevin says in his warning letter, “Every single U.S. lender specializing in sub-prime has gone bankrupt. The largest sub-prime lender in the world is now the Canadian government.”
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Wasn't Frank in a bad car wreck recently?
Just before the Arnold Classic.
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Just before the Arnold Classic.
Hopefully, he wasn't driving his 70's era Buick Riviera/Pontiac.
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Kyla McGrath
(http://www.emusclemag.com/content/mmi307/kyla_mcgrath.jpg)
i wonder if frank has ever had impure thoughts about his sister?
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Quote from: Fatpanda on Today at 05:02:04 AM
your thinking is illogical - and you are throwing the baby out with the bath water.
social health care is a fantastic idea in theory, its simply that the thinkers of the idea didn't account for millions of uneducated bums that refuse to work and pay back into the system.
wouldn't that make it a shitty idea then? me fucking supermodels is a fantastic idea in theory as well, but the reality's different, once you account for my ugliness.
if we erradicated anyone and everyone who didn't pay into it via taxes, then it would be the greatest health care system in the world, plus we would have the added bonus of a much higher mortality rare among these leeches. Wink
we have this, it's called the free market health system. no pay = no play.
Don't shoot holes in Fatpandas statement like that.....didn't you get the memo ??......
He's "Intelligent" ::)
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Like, wow...mang.
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i wonder if frank has ever had impure thoughts about his sister?
i got great looking sisters as well but im thankfull i dont have impure thoughts about them.
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i got great looking sisters as well but im thankfull i dont have impure thoughts about them.
And what if you had a hot musclebear brother, "Tito24" haha.
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i dont answer hypothetical questions.
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Don't shoot holes in Fatpandas statement like that.....didn't you get the memo ??......
He's "Intelligent" ::)
i am constantly amazed by how every post you make further reveals your ignorance.
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that man has his priorities straight.
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that man has his priorities straight.
Ol Skool classic bodybuilders with a side of classy sluts that keep some to the imagination