Free,

LOL-Yeah, but he has an electro-shock therapy treatment scheduled for 10:00 am.

You know, to bring him back down to Earth for a few days. Maybe.

Help Fred defeat the RINOs, along with the Hitllary-Obama Axis, & win the White House in '08.

So, lighten up, Unsane.  You've been reading too much Ayn Rand and going all serious on me.  I tweaked JB for a little sport.  Too bad he wasn't around to play.

Sorry, shawn, but history completely contradicts you.  In order to be going somewhere, you need to be making advances, and you should have a powerful military to make your will known.  It isn't my fault that you and the Canadians you are surrounded with are so fearful of such things as "the future" and "risk" that they spend (or in your case, desperately want to spend) vast quantities of other people's money in order to eliminate risk, or any fear of the future. 

When you do that, instead of letting people free to risk-take on their own and advance themselves, (and society and then the world), you hit the road to Nowhere.  I'll keep beating that dead horse until you consult history and see what I'm talking about. 

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Did you ever think your energy woes might have had something to do with the punk ass fudge packers in sacramento not allowing nukes for the last 30 years? Shove your power needs california punk!

"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...

"Remember the arguments we heard from the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission (headed by Ken Lays hand-picked boy) about letting the
market work it out? Gee, the old taxpayer-owned utilities were boring
but they delivered the goods at a reasonable cost, didn't they. When
"free enterprise" got involved, we had punk-ass traders gaming the
system and laughting all the way to the bank."

Nice revisionist history, but not quite accurate. Since California had imposed price controls via caps on how much companies could charge for electricity, there never was a "free enterprise" in place. So, when resources became scarce for a variety of reasons, wholesale prices rose. And, when wholesale prices rose above the level the power companies were allowed to charge consumers, they began to lose money on every kilowatt hour they sold.

Rising wholesale prices signaled that electricity was increasingly scarce, but retail prices, which were capped, told consumers that nothing had changed. As a result consumers demanded more electricity than was available, and, naturally, blackouts occured.

Bankruptcies also occured, and because wholesalers would no longer sell to bankrupt utility companies, naturally, good old government came to the rescue. As a result, consumers paid more for their electricity......partly through their electric bills, and the rest on their tax bills or in reduced government services as the state's record budget surplus turned into a record deficit.

If anything, your analogy proves our point. Not quite as sexy as lame attempts to slam capitalism by socialists like you, though,is it? Maybe that explains why guys like you are so fond of making things up....the real world is just too boring for you.

And if you want to know why we spend so much more per person here, part of the reason is because we have access to more advanced, more expensive treatment options than other countries. Hell, Canada doesn't even provide all the prescription drugs that we have available here. And I imagine allowing patients to die while on waiting lists for live saving treatment and basically practicing euthanasia on the elderly probably helps lower the cost too.

I did read your argument, my favorite kleptomaniac.  It holds NO WATER.  If people in Britain are so happy and contented with the NHS, then why are they running screaming to private health insurance? 

When that happens, that means the system has failed.  Miserably.  Too bad, so sad.

You whine I am a one-trick pony, yet ALL you rant, scream, whine, and cry for is more and more and more and more and more and more government control of EVERYTHING.  You simply will NOT be happy until every aspect of your life is strictly regimented by government bureaucracy.  Why is this?  Is it because you can't handle life?  Is it because you LOVE the idea of being a ward of the State?  Is it because life requires people to take risks, and the very word "risk" completely terrifies you?

Some of us actually get to the point where we want to be independent of everything, including our mommies and daddies.  From everything I see here, you still want to be a child, a ward to be adopted by The Big Nanny who will do ALL of your thinking FOR you, because you apparently cannot handle life.

I see the word "STEAL" bothers you or else you wouldn't be whining about it.  Whine all you want, but when you want to pick my pocket because you are too lazy to get your own doctor, I call it as I see it.  You are just too chicken to actually pull a gun on me and do it that way, so you hide behind the government. 

As for tax cuts, look up "the Laffer Curve" and see what that says.  Tax cuts make total economic sense.  It isn't my fault that both parties engage in out of control spending; I bitch constantly at Congress via the pen and e-mail about it.  Do you? 

And as for universal health care solving economic problems, you are the one screaming that if the State gets in the business of pampering people, that our economic woes will be solved.  No.  YOU were the one SCREAMING about how we cannot at any cost even consider for a nanosecond the privatization of Social Security because it would explode the deficit/debt, yet you blithely propose the nationalization of 14-15% of the U.S. economy, and then have the government turn around and give that away like Halloween candy.  I am saying that if health care makes the Nanny States more competitive as YOU claim, then why aren't those companies staying at home?  Why would they bother coming here? 

I do read The Economist quite a bit, but I don't read like you do.  I read critically.  Reading critically is....forget it.  But I suggest you blow about $6-7 and buy the July/August Foreign Policy and read its section on Europe.  It will blow some holes in your little mythology that you seem to believe.

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