>>It seems to me that some people here wouldn't quite mind living in some grotesque parody of a Charles Dicken's novel. I guess the good old days where children had to sweep chimneys without protection or legal recourse if injured while you yourself could barely meet your own caloric requirements with a full day's wage strikes their fancy.

Government regulation has it's place because markets sometimes fail despite what some pie in the sky market fundamentalist academics might say. Ask some of the current greatest capitalists themselves like Warren Buffett, George Soros and Bill Gates or someone like Volcker - people who actually have to contend with -actual- markets rather than just bs about them.

Laissez faire healthcare what a hoot. The numbers speak for themselves (U.S healthcare costs p.p compared to just about everyone else's).

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This after I post a story of a plumber who can't get his arm straightened by NHS.

hrm, you might not have to wait for space, just put one in vaccuum

and if it survives, try filling it with baking soda, and seeing if will submerge and surface on its own

Dude, at least CONGRESS is mentioned in the Constitution.  The Fed and the Bush Treasury raped Wall Street and then the Fed and the Obama Treasury are at it again.  Congress is getting its nose rapped with having delegated lawmaking authority to bureaucrats, FINALLY, and I hope they take it back before they destroy the dollar AGAIN.

I don't listen to it so much as percieve the floor throbbing into my feet as my ears ring like tibetan bowl chimes

would put ringtones into the computer for ICD-9 codes if she could

eg 302.72 would play "One Minute Man"

Cleared a lockerroom by swearing

Forgot to pay the gas bill

THE NEW UNTOUCHABLES

ANNOUNCER: Thrill as Elaine Hess and her crack federal agents bust up the seething underworld of cash-for-cure clinics!
<crash>
HESS: Freeze! G-people!
<murmur>
HESS: Well if it aint Doc Holliday, nabbed red-handed!
DOC:  Whaddya mean? This is a private club, I just do favors for fella members.
HESS: Pull the other one, health hoarder! Your days of curing citizens for quick cash without verifying insurance and reporting to appropriate federal agencies are OVER! Gettem outta here!
<sting>
ANNOUNCER: Tune in next week when Hess tangles with Big Medical quacks who vet patients for proof of legal residency!
<tommy guns, shotguns>

won that round

Mawwage