10 Things You Can Like About $4 Gas....

[Moosejay]

This is exactly where many people do not understand some of the European systems.
A big benefit of universal healthcare - which in some countries (Switzerland and others) is not financed by the tax payer but by privately organised but mandatory health insurance - is that it protects doctors and hospitals from people who cannot or do not want to pay for medical services and it eliminates the dilemma of whether to help them or not.
 

Everybody gets help here.

You will not see someone literally die in the street in America.

We would never allow being taxed at 70%

"Privately organized but MANDATORY health insurance"-just like taxes, and we don't like socialism, partner.

[Crossbow]

Everybody gets help here.

You will not see someone literally die in the street in America.

We would never allow being taxed at 70%

"Privately organized but MANDATORY health insurance"-just like taxes, and we don't like socialism, partner.

Taxes in Switzerland are lower than in the US. This is not socialism but protection of business (Doctors, hospitals etc.). There is nothing wrong with mandatory insurance. If an uninsured driver hits you, wouldn't you wish that car insurance was mandatory and enforced. Exactly the same thing for doctors who "get hit" by uninsured emergency patients.

[Moosejay]

Taxes in Switzerland are lower than in the US. This is not socialism but protection of business (Doctors, hospitals etc.). There is nothing wrong with mandatory insurance. If an uninsured driver hits you, wouldn't you wish that car insurance was mandatory and enforced. Exactly the same thing for doctors who "get hit" by uninsured emergency patients.

The Swiss are still forced to pay. We are forced to do nothing of the sort.

If an uninsured driver hits me, I sue my own , 5 million dollar policy.

I 'get hit' by patients who can't pay me.

Its infrequent, and I bite the bullet. Sometimes they end up referring me a patient who can pay up the road.

And, enough about the Swiss.

they refuse to back any of the US military policies, or any other countries, for that matter.

If I need surgery, insured or not, whom do I choose to perform it?

The Swiss?

Or My Yale University system of surgeons?

You may the call, Yuri.

[peroni]

The reallllly great part about higher fuel costs is how much food, services, and most other thigns we buy increase as a result.

$5 milk, you ROCK!

Exactly.

Shut your fucking pie hole moose ass. You're littering of this website is annoying. Get a job and stop posting endless stupidty

[Silverback Gorilla]

The reallllly great part about higher fuel costs is how much food, services, and most other thigns we buy increase as a result.

$5 milk, you ROCK!

Shit, try $9 here in Hawaii.

[The Coach]

Shit, try $9 here in Hawaii.

Seriously? My wife's from Guam and it's not even $5.00 there.

[Bast000]

milk is under $3 in OH.

[The Master]

I am a funny looking little fellow.

[The Luke]

There is a reason why Republican true believers are predominantly religious... only the gullible (religious) would buy into such a barrel of horseshit!


Do you guys really believe Rupert Murdoch and the corporate financial backers of the Republican party don't have a vested interest in pushing this bullshit?

FOX News has already managed to convince most Americans of a plethora of obvious non-truths:
-that trade unions are somehow bad for workers (how?)
-that socialism, which has allowed most of Europe to go from post-war bankruptcy to surpassing the US in all positive living standards in only 50 years, is some sort of moral evil
-that capitalism is a moral absolute: correct, right and necessary under all circumstances
-that blind religious faith is a political virtue (which should influence foreign policy)
-that Bush is competent
-that war-profiteering is a free-market necessity
-that corporations have your best interests at heart

Now they have you morons convinced $140 a barrel oil is probably a good thing... WTF?!

Don't you guys know that gasoline is $2 a barrel in Mexico? Don't you guys know that gasahol (ethanol) is 25c (yes, twenty five cents!) a gallon in Brazil?


Aren't any of you Rednecks smart enough to realise that these corporate whores (Republicans) have been shitting on you for the past fifty years... now that they've convinced you to lick your lips you imbeciles are so entrenched in your thinking you feel the need to insist it tastes good!


The Luke

[UPINTHEMGUTS]

I work for home now 2 days a week and I've seen a very noticeable difference in my gas spending. Goddamn SUV's!

Any stock investors here? It's so funny how most investment firms and banks in the financial sector reported lower than expected losses this past week. Apparently, that caused a 3 day DOW surge where you have experts thinking that a recovery is on the upswing in the economy. Then tech stocks like Google and Microsoft get hammered and bring it right back down again.

What a joke when lower than expected losses from financial firms such as Citigroup can instill hope these days. Merril lynch got hammered. These are still big losses nonetheless and the companies are still in the red because of the credit crisis. But that causes the stock market to rebound? Unreal.

If you're an investor, now's a good time to buy blue chip stocks at a bargain price. But that will cause the market to be oversold once again like it did all of the month of July.

[Moosejay]

There is a reason why Republican true believers are predominantly religious... only the gullible (religious) would buy into such a barrel of horseshit!


Do you guys really believe Rupert Murdoch and the corporate financial backers of the Republican party don't have a vested interest in pushing this bullshit?

FOX News has already managed to convince most Americans of a plethora of obvious non-truths:
-that trade unions are somehow bad for workers (how?)
-that socialism, which has allowed most of Europe to go from post-war bankruptcy to surpassing the US in all positive living standards in only 50 years, is some sort of moral evil
-that capitalism is a moral absolute: correct, right and necessary under all circumstances
-that blind religious faith is a political virtue (which should influence foreign policy)
-that Bush is competent
-that war-profiteering is a free-market necessity
-that corporations have your best interests at heart

Now they have you morons convinced $140 a barrel oil is probably a good thing... WTF?!

Don't you guys know that gasoline is $2 a barrel in Mexico? Don't you guys know that gasahol (ethanol) is 25c (yes, twenty five cents!) a gallon in Brazil?


Aren't any of you Rednecks smart enough to realise that these corporate whores (Republicans) have been shitting on you for the past fifty years... now that they've convinced you to lick your lips you imbeciles are so entrenched in your thinking you feel the need to insist it tastes good!


The Luke

I am not religious.

Go dig for some potatoes, socialist

[The Luke]

I am not religious.

Go dig for some potatoes, socialist

Well, I really attacked three inclusive and overlapping groups there: the religious; religious morons and ordinary morons... if you are not religious, then I assume you took such offense because you self-identify with the third group.

That's okay, I never expected anything other than insults from your group... it's not as if you're capable of arguing the issues.


The Luke

[Moosejay]

Well, I really attacked three inclusive and overlapping groups there: the religious; religious morons and ordinary morons... if you are not religious, then I assume you took such offense because you self-identify with the third group.

That's okay, I never expected anything other than insults from your group... it's not as if you're capable of arguing the issues.


The Luke

I identify with none of your pap.

HTH

[240 is Back]

hasn't this always been common in south florida?
crime in that area seems to make national news more than any other place in the country

SW FL was one of the highest segregated areas in the country.  Sarasota used to be #1 in nation.  The drug shelf was very separate from the business districts, elderly parks, family zones, etc. 

It's weird, but it kept crime down.  There was plenty of work for everyone - bit labor shortage until 1 year ago.

Once construction market crashed (when people stopped building houses - often mid-construction), it got a LOT worse.


This week some prick shot a cop in the face in the pizza place where I eat twice a month.

last week they arrested the guy who did 10+ armed home invasions, where he wakes you up with gun in mouth and has shot and wounded a few folks for fun.

last month amanda dunbar's sister's man killed her and came to Ft Myers to kill himself.

It's bad lately.  Everyone is broke.  I'm not... I have 5+ sources of income.. band, writer, local tech, websites, etc... but locally, money isn't there for many.  It's getting worse.  Tourism sucks, construciton sucks, real estate is horrible.  Our whole economy was built on those 3.

Education and healthcare are the other 2 foundations of FL economy.

Education just got cut something like 10% statewide... lots of new unemployed teachers, 25 years old with a worthless degree, subbing 2 days a week for $85 a day.

[w8m8]

There is nothing I can find that I "like" about $4 gas 








But if I were gaining something from it I could    'nuff said

[JimmyThomson]

I have to laugh when guys like Moosejay go on about how the USA is the best country in the world. I was in New York on business last week and the vibe I got was a doomsday scenario. Over here in the UK Gas is $12 a UK gallon (which is about $10 a US gallon). Our minimum wage is $11 an hour in the UK but a waiter I spoke to in a restaurant told me the minimum wage in the US as something like $3-$4 an hour?  Can this be true ?? Seems that a very small minority (like the Bush family) earn vast sums of money in the US while the rest are so poor they worry about a $4.00 gallon.
In UK we have free health care. In Scotland we even have free University education (English have to pay ha ha).
As to cap it all, you have all these fat black and very loud Negro people all over the place. Why are they so loud and why do they have such fat backsides.
 Best country in the world ?    Think again.  I also have to laugh about how American is the land of the Free. This is not true, I remember the communist witch trials etc. You have to watch what you say and do in the USA or the CIA will not be happy. UK, France, Germany, Canada, Australia, New Zeland, Finland, Norway, Sweden,  Denmark, Italy etc etc etc and much more free than the USA.



    

[YoungBlood]

I have to laugh when guys like Moosejay go on about how the USA is the best country in the world. I was in New York on business last week blah blah blah blah...

Go back to making up stories about shit. At least when you post those, they're entertaining.