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Old 03-24-2011, 06:27 PM
 
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Do'h! Looks like some people don't know how to use Google ....
When did Google become the most trusted source of information?
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Old 03-24-2011, 06:30 PM
 
Location: SELA
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Here's a little curve ball for our pro-capitalists: At what stage does net worth cease to be a measurement of abilities and effort? If you do not believe that a multi-billionaire is literally exponentially more talented and harder working than a mere single-digit millionaire, where is that line drawn?
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Old 03-24-2011, 06:33 PM
 
Location: South Jordan, Utah
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I presume that "brainwashed" is code for standing on your own two feet, making your own way through life, instead of being a mooch socialist swine.
Still making friends I see?
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Old 03-24-2011, 06:33 PM
 
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It's a SEARCH engine. Not a wikipedia source. It's what you find IN Google that matters. Whatever.

Go out and find some independent companies who do independent research, and you'll find a few that'll say otherwise on the U.S. Healthcare System. It's funny how the grand majority rank the U.S. as the lowest of low in almost everything. I can agree with the findings; it's difficult for the average American to have full access to healthcare. It's a joke.
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Old 03-24-2011, 06:40 PM
 
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It's a SEARCH engine. Not a wikipedia source. It's what you find IN Google that matters. Whatever.

Go out and find some independent companies who do independent research, and you'll find a few that'll say otherwise on the U.S. Healthcare System. It's funny how the grand majority rank the U.S. as the lowest of low in almost everything. I can agree with the findings; it's difficult for the average American to have full access to healthcare. It's a joke.
Could you give me an example of companies who do independent research?
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Old 03-24-2011, 06:54 PM
 
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Could you give me an example of companies who do independent research?
OECD (Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development)
International Health Policy Survey

www. commonwealthfund .org/Content/News/News-Releases/2010/Jun/US-Ranks-Last-Among-Seven-Countries. aspx

There ya go. =)
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Old 03-24-2011, 07:03 PM
 
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OECD (Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development)
International Health Policy Survey

www. commonwealthfund .org/Content/News/News-Releases/2010/Jun/US-Ranks-Last-Among-Seven-Countries. aspx

There ya go. =)
"When fully implemented in 2014, the Affordable Care Act will bring relief: nearly all of the 52 million working-age adults who were without health insurance for a time in 2010 will be covered".

I remember there were 30 million uninsured just a year ago.
That makes me doubt their unbiased impartial independent research.
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Old 03-24-2011, 07:50 PM
 
Location: Blankity-blank!
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We have a capitalism that has grown to be an iron fisted brute. Thou shalt dare not challenge capitalism!
Capitalism (as America knows it) is the Supreme Being. All bow!
Capitalism increases materialism, but has little regard for "quality of life". Small wonder why the phrase 'quality of life' is seldom heard in America. Everything in America is measured by finances, including success and failure. Capitalism is not a system to improve lives, but only to increase the wealth of the manipulators.
Materialist are basically hollow, but have a talent for making money...that comes to much money and poor taste.
German philosopher, Arthur Schopenhauer, said it best. Paraphrasing here; those who have no spirit set their entire minds on money.
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Old 03-24-2011, 08:13 PM
 
Location: Dallas
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We have a capitalism that has grown to be an iron fisted brute. Thou shalt dare not challenge capitalism!
Capitalism (as America knows it) is the Supreme Being. All bow!.
We have Crony Capitalism. Your buddy Obama has replaced capitalism with bail outs of his buddies.
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Old 03-24-2011, 08:16 PM
 
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When did Google become the most trusted source of information?
Google is not the source, it only helps you find the source.
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