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That is currently. I cut bad doctors loose right away.

It has to be an exaggeration or we'd all be dead by now. You should have gone to another doctor. I've had the misfortune of visiting loads of doctors all over the world. As in any profession, there are many incompetent fools everywhere. All of my American doctors are excellent.

Yes, but so far the only countries that have achieved such magnificent declines as $14T to $2T have followed monetary policies like Bernankes' along with government interventionism like Bush & Obama's.

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Noob, I moved here from the Soviet Union too. Everything this guy is dreaming up reminds me of the Soviet five year plans. Roping young people into public service? Remember pioneers and subotniki, tovarish? These guys think they can change the names of the same tired socialist central...

Only if you throw everyone in congress in there with him.

So if you don't know what a "bulletin" is, how can you authoritatively state that the uptick rule was good and it's removal is bad? You don't know what you're talking about. There was nothing available to "the general public". That's the point. The price test screwed the general public and...

Life expectancy is a factor of much more than health care. So, it's not the best measure to compare developed countries to each other. I think Canada has a lot more Asians and the U.S. has a lot more Mexicans. Mexicans tend to be prone to chornic illnesses like obesity and diabetes while...

Spinn, A lot of that cost shenanigans is the insurance fraud issue I posted about. But, insurance in NY state will cost you $1,000 per month and still not cover the full cost of your physical. Currently, I'm in a state with far fewer mandates and I'm able to buy catastrophe insurance for...

I am an immigrant from the Soviet Union (back when it was the USSR) who lived in Western Europe before moving the the United States. My mother's family is comprised of mostly doctors who practiced in the Soviet Union before moving to Canada and some who practice medicine in the United States...

Most of the people at Merrill had absolutely nothing to do with the decisions that lead to the trouble that followed. Options market makers made a lot of money for the firm, so they shouldn't be paid? If they hadn't made as much money as they did, taxpayers would have had to pay up even more...

You can speed up that process by artificially inflating wages in the U.S. with that "living wage" BS. "Living wage" is the fast track to no wage at all. You can force people to pay a certain wage if they hire workers, but you can't force people to hire workers. It's basic economics -...

The biggest ponzi scheme is Social Security. The government is really good at only one thing - running ponzi schemes. with that much experience, you'd have thought they would have sniffed out Madoff a long time ago.

Friends on Capitol Hill. The same friends who are outraged at the bonus the research assistants received at I-banks but voted in a 3% pay raise for themselves for the super duper job they've been doing as congress critters.

Yeah, flushing money down the toilet is generally not known to be a wealth creating activity.

Um...his last movie bombed. It was pulled from theatres ahead of schedule (even in NYC - which creams its pants for him 24/7) because nobody came to see it. I don't consider lying a talent and that is really the only thing he does in his movies. That said, I don't begrudge him his dough...

Please tell me you're not that naive. Moore said GM is badly managed and you and Moore both ignore the union's influence on that bad management and government screwing with CAFE standards and market share over the decades. In the 50's GM was not allowed by government to have more than a 50%...

Interference can make things a lot worse, but it will never make things better. And I don't agree with you about the credit expansion. Business makes mistakes all the time. The massive credit expansion over the last decade has a lot more to do with government subsidizing uncreditworthy...

oh, blah blah blah. Bush talked about the challenges ahead that would take time to resolve, etc. So what? And he did promise a rose garden. He promised to get America "on the right path" and to "change the failed policies of the previous administration" and a million other similar...

Actually, I just hate him because he's a giant, lying, hypocritical asshole. Everything else pales in comparison. I'm not impressed by his ability to put asses in seats at movie theatres and I thought "Roger & Me" was stupid and typical-for-Moore disingenuous. First of all, his last movie...