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I didn't mean to start a fight, but the subject pisses me off, and I tend to go on about it. The FACT is, we DO have national health care... but it's not full coverage. If an average middle class family had a father who gets cancer, needs a kidney or liver or heart, they WILL go broke...

What you guys didn't read or get is, Health Care is NOT that expensive. It's expensive because your money is getting spent on the Insurance middleman, and those who don't/can't afford to pay their bills. That's why the bottom line never works out. It's cheaper to us as a nation, for...

I absolutely think Rumsfeld leaving has to do with the green close today. It made me buy, and I'm just an ordinary retail investor. Oh yah, I've been buying for 2 months anyway. There wasn't much chance that we weren't getting rid of some of the bums yesterday, but it's still nice to see...

Oh, speaking of insurance, OUR insurance costs $1600 a MONTH for a very healthy family of 4. WITH copay and deductibles. Have we managed to spend $19,200 for medical costs in any single year in our entire lives? Nope. Over 10 years, we will pay (pretending it never goes up) $192,000...

There was a goldilocks running around wall street? That wasn't me, I'm not on wall street. Free money Greenspan provided? We just got no raise from the Fed, and there's talk of CUTTING rates in Spring now due to the housing mess. The juice that took this market up was the money everyone...

Um... maybe it's me, but was this question, "Why do you answer me if you don't understand meaning of words epic and billion?" ENGLISH? Are you asking me if I understand the definitions of the words epic and billion? If so, how is this relevant to anything at all? Are you asking me why I...

We have several Canadian friends who come here every year on vacation. They have ample opportunity to move here... would they? Absolutely not. Most Canadians have it a hella lot better than we do for quality of life and the rat race. You have to be joking that they're all dying to come here...

Perhaps I write too much too fast, and you can't read that fast Traderdragon. Read it again please. I wanted to know what would happen to YOU if you developed cancer tomorrow and could no longer work. YOU. What happens when you can't pay your health insurance premiums, and your disability...

By going up, because the fiscally irresponsible Congress just got booted out. Bush isn't Reagan. This tax cut was a joke and we're rallying because it's going away, and maybe we'll finally have some fiscal responsibility again. Something we've been missing for 8 years.

No, that's not what it means. Did we have hyper-inflation in 1999 when the Nasdaq broke 5000 and the Dow 10,000? (Nasdaq is still less than 1/2 of it's high... over 10 YEARS). It simply means that over a 10 year time frame, we really did come out a bit ahead of inflation by investing in the...

I had to go do something, so didn't finish. The point is, while in many places, it's very possible to do that, start a small business, you have to have money. You have to have a market, you have to have transportation to get your product/service to the market, you have to be able to...

"Well guess what, once upon a time, there was no factory. How did IT get started?? Hmmmm???? " It was 'old money' that was brought in from someone who inherited the wealth. Let me ask you something, do you own your own small company? If so, where'd you get the money from?

It will probably sell off anyway for a bit before continuing its rise. That's what 'buy on rumor, sell on news' means. That doesn't mean if it does a temporary dip that it's shortable, just that some people may take profits (or they may not)... the market is shaping up to replay 1998 all...

Whoa... Rumsfeld is leaving the Pentagon! WHOA... NASDAQ 5000 is on the way:).

RS, I am quite familiar with Adam Smith. I also used to be quite a fan of Ayn Rand and her seminal, but boring as hell book, 'Atlas Shrugged'. And it's all very logical. I am not a socialist or a communist, nor do I advocate either. They don't work, you cannot expect everyone to work equally...

The ONLY reason your healthcare is so great compared to Canada and other nationalized health care programs is because our unregulated health care sucks the enterprising doctors out of their system into ours to try to make the big bucks in private practice. THEN, those doctors don't really...

Exactly, Piezoe. Fiscal conservatism is what I expected, not billions in war debt, trillions added to our deficit, the average tax cut to the top 1% of $143,000 (Warren Buffet even mocked this by saying that he didn't need it, why's Bush giving him the money), giving tax cuts to US corporations...

I am not talking about her personality or style. You're talking about one of the first women graduates of Yale Law School, she's an intellectual, not a socialite. Wow... I was about to launch into a defense of Hillary Clinton...what's the world come to? I spent 8 years making fun of the...

That would be an interesting race, Hillary vs McCain... tho I don't think it would come to that. I don't think either would win their Primaries, regardless of the hype. On the one hand, you have Hillary, whom most people can agree is brilliant and caring. Her biggest problem is the fact that...

I'm not sure I'd want McCain for President... mostly because the President of the US's job is to submit our national budgets and be Commander in Chief. On every other count, I like McCain, but while his status as a war hero is commendable, he is also a tremendous hawk, at a time where the US...