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Forum: USA
Jul 27th 2008, 9:21 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,660
Posted By fatbrit

Re: Land of opportunity...

You think we might be bad Americans? I think I've already written that dissent is an American value -- in fact it's the one that the country was founded on.
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 4:11 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,660
Posted By fatbrit

Re: Land of opportunity...

The NHS needs a tweak -- as does any large organization at periodic intervals. The money going in is about right.

The US system, however, needs much more than a tweak.
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 4:09 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,660
Posted By fatbrit

Re: Land of opportunity...

Mea culpa -- that was Tracy! You seem to be blending together in my mind.
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 3:57 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,660
Posted By fatbrit

Re: Land of opportunity...

You also said before that you wouldn't mind paying more taxes for universal access.

I don't know where you're getting the idea we should be paying more, whether it be directly or indirectly. The...
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 2:24 am
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,660
Posted By fatbrit

Re: Land of opportunity...

Say it was only diagnosed after he came out. He'd be on the first plane back to the UK would be my guess.




Most yanks have never experienced anything else.
Most Brits on this board have.
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 1:58 am
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,660
Posted By fatbrit

Re: Land of opportunity...

There rests the case, m'lud.
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 1:57 am
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,660
Posted By fatbrit

Re: Land of opportunity...

Let's say somebody's ill father had made it over to the US from the horrors of the socialist UK, sponsored by their son who had married a USC. They are of retirement age, say early sixties. They fall...
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 1:54 am
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,660
Posted By fatbrit

Re: Land of opportunity...

It's a tribal thing and she feels safe there. Logic and fact will not sway her from belonging to her tribe. The only hope if we wish to convert her is to show her that we are in the same tribe. But...
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 1:44 am
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,660
Posted By fatbrit

Re: Land of opportunity...

Not on this board. Although his opinions are often expressed.
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 1:39 am
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,660
Posted By fatbrit

Re: Land of opportunity...

We all know BJ privileges would be withdrawn were he to dissent.
Forum: USA
Jul 23rd 2008, 10:05 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,660
Posted By fatbrit

Re: Land of opportunity...

I explained before -- the rugged whatever is an F150 with a gun rack and a Dixie flag.
Forum: USA
Jul 23rd 2008, 9:59 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,660
Posted By fatbrit

Re: Land of opportunity...

It allows better control -- simple as that. You are a more malleable employee because I provide your health care.
Forum: USA
Jul 23rd 2008, 7:11 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,660
Posted By fatbrit

Re: Land of opportunity...

I always thought to be a rugged individual meant owning an F150. Or is it a Silverado?
Forum: USA
Jul 23rd 2008, 7:02 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,660
Posted By fatbrit

Re: Land of opportunity...

Problem here is creationism has no place in the science classroom -- it simply is another discipline. And US public schools don't do religion.
Forum: USA
Jul 23rd 2008, 3:58 am
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,660
Posted By fatbrit

Re: Land of opportunity...

And stopping the Poles from nicking the fish in the canals?
Forum: USA
Jul 22nd 2008, 7:29 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,660
Posted By fatbrit

Re: Land of opportunity...

He has a very valid point -- don't dismiss it with a yawn!
Forum: USA
Jul 22nd 2008, 5:35 am
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,660
Posted By fatbrit

Re: Land of opportunity...

Oh gawd! The commies have arrived!
Forum: USA
Jul 22nd 2008, 5:33 am
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,660
Posted By fatbrit

Re: Land of opportunity...

She's okay and she's got medical insurance. What is there not to understand?
Forum: USA
Jul 22nd 2008, 5:15 am
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,660
Posted By fatbrit

Re: Land of opportunity...

It was over 45 million in 2005. Since then we've had a recession and many have lost their jobs.
Forum: USA
Jul 22nd 2008, 12:48 am
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,660
Posted By fatbrit

Re: Land of opportunity...

Yep!

Babky demokratky used to be the bane of my life. I had to shout at them like I shout at Trace. But another world, another life, eh!
Forum: USA
Jul 22nd 2008, 12:45 am
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,660
Posted By fatbrit

Re: Land of opportunity...

It's grandma.
Forum: USA
Jul 22nd 2008, 12:25 am
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,660
Posted By fatbrit

Re: Land of opportunity...

Didn't notice that. Have noticed she's always (threatening) to put folks on ignore.... and the base subject is always the same one. It was that naughty elf the other week, I think. Has he been...
Forum: USA
Jul 22nd 2008, 12:00 am
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,660
Posted By fatbrit

Re: Land of opportunity...

If you put everyone on ignore who thinks you're talking total crap about the US health care crisis and are, indeed, a good example of the very problem ....all you'll have left to talk to are a few...
Forum: USA
Jul 21st 2008, 8:10 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,660
Posted By fatbrit

Re: Land of opportunity...

No -- I'm not making fun of the fact that anybody dies needlessly.

And to have less people dying needlessly, we need radical reform of the American system. The NHS needs a bit of recalibration,...
Forum: USA
Jul 21st 2008, 7:20 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,660
Posted By fatbrit

Re: Land of opportunity...

Thank gawd we don't have universal health care here, eh? Wouldn't want people dying needlessly, would we now?
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