Barack Obama

[TracyCoxx]

Damn Tytler, does he have to be so right?

Originally Posted by Tytler

A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.

The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

* From bondage to spiritual faith;
* From spiritual faith to great courage;
* From courage to liberty;
* From liberty to abundance;
* From abundance to complacency;
* From complacency to apathy;
* From apathy to dependence;
* From dependence back into bondage.

[randolph]

Health industry lobbyists spent $600,000,000 on Congress to keep out the public option. They succeeded and Obama will sign it anyway. Corporate America owns the government, we are here just to pay the bills of the rich. How much longer are we going to put up with this shit?

[TracyCoxx]

Originally Posted by randolph

Health industry lobbyists spent $600,000,000 on Congress to keep out the public option. They succeeded and Obama will sign it anyway. Corporate America owns the government, we are here just to pay the bills of the rich. How much longer are we going to put up with this shit?

You want the government to run health care? Give me an example of an efficient, well run government agency. You'll say corporations aren't well run or efficient, but many of them are. They have to be other wise they will not be competitive. Government agencies OTOH do not have to be competitive. They don't even have to be mediocre. They will receive their budgeted amount regardless of how well they are doing, and regardless of whether the country actually even has money to pay them! This guarantees that they will be inefficient because they don't need to be. It also guarantees that they will be filled with schmucks who can't make it in the real world where they are held accountable for their performance.

[The Conquistador]

Originally Posted by TracyCoxx

You want the government to run health care? Give me an example of an efficient, well run government agency. You'll say corporations aren't well run or efficient, but many of them are. They have to be other wise they will not be competitive. Government agencies OTOH do not have to be competitive. They don't even have to be mediocre. They will receive their budgeted amount regardless of how well they are doing, and regardless of whether the country actually even has money to pay them! This guarantees that they will be inefficient because they don't need to be. It also guarantees that they will be filled with schmucks who can't make it in the real world where they are held accountable for their performance.

Damn skippy Tracy!

[randolph]

Originally Posted by TracyCoxx

You want the government to run health care? Give me an example of an efficient, well run government agency. You'll say corporations aren't well run or efficient, but many of them are. They have to be other wise they will not be competitive. Government agencies OTOH do not have to be competitive. They don't even have to be mediocre. They will receive their budgeted amount regardless of how well they are doing, and regardless of whether the country actually even has money to pay them! This guarantees that they will be inefficient because they don't need to be. It also guarantees that they will be filled with schmucks who can't make it in the real world where they are held accountable for their performance.

Well if government is so inefficient why did the health industry spend six hundred million dollars to get the public option dropped? Sounds like the public option was a threat to their obscene profits screwing sick people.

[The Conquistador]

Originally Posted by randolph

Well if government is so inefficient why did the health industry spend six hundred million dollars to get the public option dropped? Sounds like the public option was a threat to the people's individual liberties and their ability to choose what they deem necessary; not what some G-man says.

Fixed it for you.

[randolph]

Originally Posted by TheAngryPostman

Fixed it for you.

Hey man, If you want to quote me fine. just don't screw around with what I have to say. If you disagree, fine, say what you want, OK!

[The Conquistador]

Originally Posted by randolph

Hey man, If you want to quote me fine. just don't screw around with what I have to say. If you disagree, fine, say what you want, OK!

Tee hee hee... Where's the love ole chap?