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Forum: USA
Jul 28th 2008, 7:13 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,661
Posted By elfman

Re: Land of opportunity...

...who also misplace things from time to time. Twice this year I've had FedEx slip up when delivering stuff for work and as a result we've been disqaulified from a couple of bids.

Plus for a great...
Forum: USA
Jul 28th 2008, 11:44 am
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,661
Posted By elfman

Re: Land of opportunity...

but they do drive on interstate highways.....
Forum: USA
Jul 27th 2008, 9:59 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,661
Posted By elfman

Re: Land of opportunity...

I'll see your :blink: and raise you :blink::blink::blink:

so if it's not going to change overnight (does that happen to anything significant?) we should just suck it up? Do I have that right?
Forum: USA
Jul 27th 2008, 6:37 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,661
Posted By elfman

Re: Land of opportunity...

where's the irony??
If we're invested here and looking like living here for the long term, isn't it only natural that as stakeholders (to use the corporate jargon) we want to see improvements made...
Forum: USA
Jul 27th 2008, 5:02 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,661
Posted By elfman

Re: Land of opportunity...

ooooh! I didn't realise you were that posh :lol:
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 5:06 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,661
Posted By elfman

Re: Land of opportunity...

first I've heard of it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_tax#How_Council_Tax_is_spent

The Telegraph article looks to me like speculation regarding the source of future additional NHS...
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 4:35 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,661
Posted By elfman

Re: Land of opportunity...

The NHS isn't funded through council tax, the same way medicare isn't funded through property taxex here.
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 2:22 am
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,661
Posted By elfman

Re: Land of opportunity...

and people who are just old. I think FB's point was that the dad would struggle to get coverage even without a pre-existing condition.
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 2:07 am
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,661
Posted By elfman

Re: Land of opportunity...

during my last hospital stay in the UK I was "nil by mouth" for most of it
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 2:04 am
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,661
Posted By elfman

Re: Land of opportunity...

'Nex', please!' yelled the white-aproned prole with the ladle.

Winston and Syme pushed their trays beneath the grille. On to each was dumped swiftly the regulation lunch -- a metal pannikin of...
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 2:00 am
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,661
Posted By elfman

Re: Land of opportunity...

that depends. Is the son or his father a millionaire?
Forum: USA
Jul 25th 2008, 4:39 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,661
Posted By elfman

Re: Land of opportunity...

maybe we should have a poll about this - I'm on Tracy's ignore list so if I post it she won't see it
Forum: USA
Jul 23rd 2008, 4:19 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,661
Posted By elfman

Re: Land of opportunity...

this is interesting:

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-west.htm
Forum: USA
Jul 22nd 2008, 12:24 am
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,661
Posted By elfman

Re: Land of opportunity...

one might also infer from this rather a lot of American people aren't deemed assets, not just veterans.
Forum: USA
Jul 22nd 2008, 12:11 am
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,661
Posted By elfman

Re: Land of opportunity...

so please ask Tracy why the US government is happy do this for one section of the population, but not all of it - I'm on her burgeoning ignore list
Forum: USA
Jul 22nd 2008, 12:01 am
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,661
Posted By elfman

Re: Land of opportunity...

no doubt. But Tracy cites the VA situation as proof that healthcare run by the government would be a disaster. Your experience seems to contradict that assertion.
Forum: USA
Jul 21st 2008, 11:57 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,661
Posted By elfman

Re: Land of opportunity...

but, but how is this possible??? Tracy says that US government-run medical services are bound to be rubbish: she knows because she's heard some bad stories about VA hospitals.
Forum: USA
Jul 20th 2008, 7:00 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,661
Posted By elfman

Re: Land of opportunity...

thanks Borat
Forum: USA
Jul 20th 2008, 3:24 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,661
Posted By elfman

Re: Land of opportunity...

given the choice between Alabama and the UK, I know where I'd rather live
Forum: USA
Jul 19th 2008, 4:11 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,661
Posted By elfman

Re: Land of opportunity...

:confused:
Forum: USA
Jul 17th 2008, 7:55 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,661
Posted By elfman

Re: Land of opportunity...

So what did you call her – I’m sure I can’t be the only one wondering which four letter words apart from the dreaded C word don’t make it through the sweary filter. Perhaps we should have a full list...
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