Ive been wondering if that was just another smoke screen. I wonder sometimes if they are dangling the Tarp fund in front of the public to boost consumer confidence yet don't intend to spend it?

Oh they will spend it!  Give a politician and buck and it is gone!  They have diverted part of it to things like GM and Crysler.  Rememebr tthe government saying bankruptcy was not an option for that industry? and we forked over the money and then sudenly bankruptcy was just fine! And notice who got paid off.  The first in line bond holders who manage pension funds etc?  Nope, the union got yhe best of the deal.  The agenda.  Always remember the agenda!

I always do. I have said it before and I will say it again. We are not a Democracy. We are a Plutocracy.

Plutocracy is rule by the wealthy, or power provided by wealth.

Your vote doesn't mean doo doo when you have to decide which is the best turd in the bowl. A turd that has been elevated to elective status via corporate donations and bribes.

My solution? They are ILLEGAL, and their bundle of joy is a FOREIGN citizen (from wherever) born in the USA. We owe then the bum's rush. Their baby is NOT a citizen. Don't get me started. I warn you.

If I saw that crap in the ER? I'd have wheeled you in myself (I was an orderly and LPN, RN before MD) and treated you. Period. That drek would have waited AFTER getting Narcan.

Plutocracy...yup, and Idiocracy.

Now we're all on the black helicopter/tinfoil hat sh!tlist along with that foreigner Jafo.   

Not me. I was never here and if anyone says differently, I'll claim someone hacked into my wireless network.

In other words...see you in Guantanomo.

** one of my neighbors is outside right now doctoring the inspection sticker on his car. Today is a good day as I send off an email to the PD. All to avoid spending $35.00.

See Norway

Of course we have a crapload of oil too so who know if the state run health system is a drag on our economics

It was Robbem Good.

They lead [nationalized HC systems] to two tiered health care. Upper tier: The wealthy. Crap care: Everyone else.

Ask starkers.

I know many Canucks that work down here in Construction and when they need medical treatment they drive all the way back home so it can't be all bad.

Health care...housing...greedy CEO's...even greedier politicos...take your pick. The poor are still poor, I should know...I'm one of 'em. I had a normal job once until the company was bought out and the new owners slashed everyone's hours by more than half. Can't pay the bills when all you get for an hour's worth of breaking your back is minimum wage at twenty or less hours a week. Can't be done. Find a better job? Good luck with that. At my age who wants to hire when they can get younger ones to work. Give them part time so the company doesn't have to worry about benefits and such. Meanwhile the ones with all the experience gets the boot. They won't hire them because then they'd have to pay 'em what they're worth and I don't see that happening. I'm a self taught electronics troubleshooter and taught myself how to build and maintain computers. Do you think they'd hire me? Nope. They want to see the certs. A piece of paper means more than experience.

It's like everything else..it isn't what you know it's who you know and what palm to grease when and where and lets not forget who's ass to kiss! I've seen college kids with degrees no less that I can run rings around. But...this is America...that used to mean something back in the day. I wonder what would happen if our forefathers came into our time and saw all of this. How much you wanna bet they'd start another revolution in a hurry. Revolution is change and change is drastically needed at this point in time. Change is coming...make no mistake.

Do I sound like an alarmist?

Maybe their plan won't pay [or low partial pay] for care here. I know that a while back, MRI's in Chi and other border cities had huge numbers oc Canadian patients utilizing them. NHS's ration care and that's the fact. BC (Brit. Columbia) went broke a few years back and no one could get care.

Uvah...you're gonna get the black vans and helicopters after all of us!

It is also a matter of scale as Norway has a population of around 5 million which compares to a small state ot larger city in the USA. And like you say, has all that oil.  In the US you are talking about 300 million peeps.  It is problematic that you could convert a small city health system with unlimited resources into 300million scale and limited resources.  Of course, there is the point of where those resources are allocated and they cpuld be diverted from security to health care.  However, in my view, you are still left with a massive government structure that would have no cost control or efficiency by the very nature of the beast.  I fear that the care that would be recieved would not be very good but rather the resulting product of mass production analysis.

I'd like to hear Vstyler's reason for blaming Obama.

He blames him for everything. 

Guinness Stout, more likely.

White Russians.

Where you been the past 8 years?

I'll buy that...or would if I had any money left...they left me ... ahem... naked. So much for the 'Less' government. Maybe the answer's separating the pols from the bucks...completely. Them doing their job or being run out of town on a rail.

John, I so sick of the whole kit and kaboodle. None of them are worth a damn.

Here, here, Doc! THANK YOU for a selfless, caring attitude! Really, I mean it. No sarcasm intended. 

Acorn has to go. I don't understand why rights and lefts aren't outraged by this. I find it interesting that the lefties don't even discuss it.

Jeremiah right is sinking himself. Conenecting Obama to him is not justified. Others have stated that Jeremiah has gone of the nutend and didn't used to be like he now but that is arguable,

Spread the wealth was a campaign lie. I don't see him spreading any wealth as of yet.

Pelosi is an embarrassment. A pathetic politician.

We need a change in the healthcare system. At least he is trying. I can't judge anything til I hear the final plan and I don't think anyone has any point at this time. He does have a good group of people working on it. We'll just have to see where it ends up.

Executive pay monitoring for the companies we baled out I am in total agreement with and to be honest I don't trust anyone arguing the point. We are talking a minute percentage of people effected. It's not like he is trying to limit all executives. Just the ones that are running nationalized companies, again which is a puny amount of out GDP.

Gitmo is just another prison and our prison system needs to be changed. Hard time I say, not cushy 24/7 cable time with playstation. Rehabilitation is a joke considering the percentage of people that go clean when they get out of prison. Prisons have become an industry of profit. It will go nowhere but worse this way.

Massive government intervention??? Really?? Don't believe everything you hear. The bush administration got the ball rolling with the first 800 billion dollar bailout. The damage was done. To blame Obama for this just seems ridiculous IMHO.

Obamas approach with foriegn diplomats seems to be working. I guess its as simple as make friends not enemies. I do agree that they cannot be trusted but war isn't the answer. Time will tell on this one.

Robert Gibbs is just a messenger, a paperboy.

There is no assault on capitalism.

The media just plain sucks. I can't argue with you there. The best I can do is Bill Maher as he is at least walking the fence like myself. He has no corporate sponsers to dance for. I wish others had balls like him. Fox news is so corrupted it makes me want to puke and MSNBC is so cocky becuase they won, I want to punch them all in the face.

The auto companies came begging for money and were basically denied. We will get that money back at some point. We as citizens just can't let them get out of paying us back. They should have let them fold on their own. The banks, AIG, Fanny fuck you, etc.  got their handouts from the Bush clan. They got the ball rolling downhill. Obama should have called in all those loans immediately but the money dissapeared overnight without any trace of whre it went. . We as citizens should have burned their houses to the ground.

Demonizing of celebrities is part of the game. Rights and lefts do it. It is the price they pay for fame and opening their traps to the public.

Tax cheats in the treasury pisses me off. As someone that has been on a payment plan with the IRS for 4 years now with alot more to go, it just sucks. It really makes me ill.

Racists in the supreme court? Holy crap this one bothers me. Like there already isn't a bunch of racists on the supreme court. It really looks bad when someone plays the race card now. They lose all credibilty with me.

I don't know what you mean about the attack on free speech. Bush's patriot act??

The laft does attack at will but so does the right. It is nothing new and will never change. It's human nature. They see it all as a competition while our country goes to shit. They are all just distractions from what is really going on. It's Rupert Murdock and all the other rich media mogels that are the problem. They only care about profit. They don't give 2 shits that they are harming America.  

We are all worried about what is going to happen the next few years. Throwing stones and calling names isn't helping. Oreilly, Olberman, etc, are all guilty of doing what is necessary for ratings and not informing the public in an honest way. I can turn off my TV but millions refuse to. Sheeeeeeeeeep!

I couldn't agree with you more. How about we form The Skinners Party. We will skin anyone that lies about us and out intentions.

* my neighbor was arrested about an hour ago and his car was towed away.

Of course it's just another mouth to feed in prison so I don't know what I gained but I feel better.

** If we protected our borders and stopped makiing it easy for illegal immigrants there would be alot mor money to help the homeless. 2 of my neighbors drive brand new Ford Explorers at $30k a piece. The shit ads up to tremendous amounts.

*** I clearly don't uese a spellchecker.