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I loved my 7.5 years in the military and it wholly changed my life for the better. Of course a professional armed force will be better trained and motivated then those that are conscripted but I would have no problem at all with a full draft if the need ever arose for my country.

Pfft, global warming is for chumps. You REALLY want something to worry about? Something that will affect the lives of millions long before .3 inches of water? Behold the dying off of two of the world largest contributers to the food chain, the bees and the coral reef systems of the world.

I clubbed and ate a baby seal. Raw. Puts lead in your pencil.

Kinda. In that too-bad-it-had-to-come-to-this-while-I-shake-my-head-in-dissappointment-over-my-country kinda way. And KK, just shut up. You dont know me nor are you capable of understanding, well, anything.

Welcome back.

We both know the meat-and-potatoes of this bill is "to insure Americas 32 million uninsured". Well, the party line is that it will save us 200 billion or so over ten years. In reality, Uncle Sam cant scratch his nuts without going 200 billion over budget. Ill go so far as to say that within seven years of being fully implemented this will be close to a TRILLION over budget. I hope Im wrong but Im not.

This. As we speak every man, woman and child in this country is on the hook for $41,000.00 in debt. Now toss on another TRILLION so 90% of the country can pay for the 10% that dont have insurance and its easy to see this is an unsustainable model. Hurlshot bemoaned "how could anyone be expected to pay off an $80,000.00 hospital bill" when in fact weve mortgaged our childrens futures to an amount that cant be realistically paid off, all so we can have a circle jerk and congratulate ourselves on funding a program that only 10% of our citizens needed. Talk about poor return on an investment...

"Dont eat the yellow snow." - Frank Zappa

So I must have missed a previous plot critical event. Since I cant remember his character name Ill call him Mr. Black. Now Mr. Black admitted directly to Richard that he was Smokey but when we flash to the present times, Locke is Smokey. What happened to Mr. Black?

What does the "Hz" before Muhammed mean? Tried looking on Google but that only brought me to his Facebook page.

Well that didnt take long:

Huh, art imitating life. Thats exactly how I walk around my house.

Sure, what was the projection, something like 13%? A-ok for who? Oh yeah, those that contribute the least. Awesome!

Heh, thats pretty cool.

True dat. Im just hoping everything doesnt go to hell before my daughter gets a chance to enjoy our once great country. Unfortunately, her kids will probably live in the third world dump that our country is becoming.

Engage your brain. It much easier to pay for something for 30 million people who have the highest taxes in the world then it is to pay for 300 million people with one of the lowest taxes in the free world.

Sure, until 2037. Then the whole thing is scheduled to go belly up and collapse under its own debt.

Sadly, I believe LoF's first paragraph is dead on. Maybe we can spend ANOTHER TRILLION dollars trying to figure it out, cause, you know, our decendants will be the chumps that pay the price.

My god you're magnificent.

My (rapidly waning) freedoms. I dont think you have any concept of what its like to live in a non-Western country.

Um, no. The ones most in need of this bill probably do not make enough to pay Federal taxes.

See Amentep's response, hes much more eloquent than I.

Well, I happen to love my country and its statements like that that make me wish there was a little button on my side that, when depressed, would send a fist out on your side.

Waaaaa...............