Wiley50
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Mon Jan-26-09 06:43 PM
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The President needs to order a MASSIVE Computer Literacy and Ownership Initiative to Circumvent the |
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Edited on Mon Jan-26-09 07:27 PM by Wiley50
MSM Make it part of the stimulus package
Out of work IT folks could be hired to run the workshops
Each participant completing the course should receive a new bare bones laptop
Perhaps an XO $100 laptop but with more adult software and in an adult color
That would put 1000's of people to work building them (in the US)
Free Wireless broadband in EVERY city
This this would create a huge amount of jobs
And, most importantly, It would make TV news irrelevant (as it already is to us)
The MSM will ALWAYS be Right Wing Shills
It's time to make an end run around them
FREE THE PEOPLE'S MINDS!
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Belial
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Mon Jan-26-09 06:50 PM
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1. Take the price and triple it.. if the govt has anything to |
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Mon Jan-26-09 06:53 PM
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2. As long as the Bush administration.. |
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isn't handing out the contracts, we'll be saving bushels.
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Mon Jan-26-09 07:22 PM
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5. Well, that's the whole point of Obama's transparency edict. |
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Isn't it nice when a government is run with accountability?
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Mon Jan-26-09 07:45 PM
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6. Yeah, because the government can't POSSBILY do anything efficiently, right? |
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Edited on Mon Jan-26-09 07:46 PM by Salviati
:eyes: You do know that, for example Medicare averages 4% overhead for bureaucratic and administrative expenses, compared to the 17% average for private medical insurance? I'm not saying that government intervention is the right answer in every case, but that it is possible for the government to run a tight ship in the things that we decide we want it to do. #'s taken from: http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=1623http://masscare.org/health-care-costs/overhead-costs-of-health-care/
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Belial
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Mon Jan-26-09 08:11 PM
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9. Does that take into account the massive fraud costs that medicare |
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Mon Jan-26-09 08:21 PM
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11. And all those welfare Cadillacs it buys for people... |
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Where are you getting your information?
--imm
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Tue Jan-27-09 01:35 AM
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13. I suspect I know where |
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Does not take a genious
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Tue Jan-27-09 06:00 AM
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16. Think DOD and FEMA, NCLB |
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Mon Jan-26-09 07:47 PM
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7. WRONG, but that's ok, speaking of... RW talking points |
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Mon Jan-26-09 08:16 PM
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10. Sorry.. just call them like I see them.. |
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Tue Jan-27-09 01:34 AM
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12. And that does not mean you are correct |
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Edited on Tue Jan-27-09 01:35 AM by nadinbrzezinski
see Medicare... for example
Or Tricare
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Tue Jan-27-09 07:20 AM
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17. I am lazy.. so I just did a cut and past.. |
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Transportation Boston "Big Dig" $2.6b (1985) $14.6b (2002) Denver International Airport $1.7b (1989) $4.8b (1995) Virginia "Mixing Bowl" $241m (1994) $676m (2003) Seattle light rail system $1.7b (1996) $2.6b (2000) Kennedy Center parking lot $28m (1998) $88m (2003)
Energy Yucca mountain radioactive waste $6.3b (1992) $8.4b (2001) Hanford nuclear fuels site $715m (1995) $1.6b (2001) Idaho Falls nuclear fuels site $124m (1998) $273m (2001) National ignition laser facility $2.1b (1995) $3.3b (2001) Weldon Springs remedial action $358m (1989) $905m (2001)
Defense (per unit) F/A-22 Raptor fighter $89m (1992) $248m (2002) V-22 Osprey aircraft $23m (1987) $90m (2001) RAH-66 Comanche helicopter $31m (2000) $52m (2002) CH-47F cargo helicopter $8m (1998) $18m (2002) SBIRS satellite system $732m (1998) $1.6b (2002) Patriot advanced missile $4m (1995) $10m (2002)
Medicaid Special hospital subsidy $100m (1987) $11b (1992) Medicare Part A (HI), cost in 1990 $9b (1965) $67b (1990) Home care benefits, cost in 1993 $4b (1988) $10b (1993) Other 1996 farm law (over seven years) $47b (1996) $118b (2002) International Space Station $17b (1995) $30b (2002)
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Tue Jan-27-09 12:10 PM
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19. And you are still wrong |
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the operations overheard for Medicare is 4%, Tricare, which was partially privatized, is 6%
What is the average cost of your average medical insurance? 15%
You are lazy and repeating right wing talking points
Nothing wrong in it, even some very liberal folks get lazy from time to time and don't check on things like that
By the by, right now the economy needs the adrenalin anyway, so what's your beef?
And if you have a beef with government, then perhaps this is the wrong site for you. The government is the problem mantra will be applauded at free republic, but not here... just an FYI
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Tue Jan-27-09 01:52 AM
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And see something different for a change o enlightened one...
And BTW...nice sig line...enjoy your stay...
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Tue Jan-27-09 04:15 AM
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However one whould think that someone so steeped in chaos would laugh off the curse of greyface you wear along with name and your sig.
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Tue Jan-27-09 07:25 AM
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18. You are correct.. sigh.. it was a mood thing |
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I need to find a better one for cynical.. :)
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Mon Jan-26-09 06:53 PM
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An excellent idea!
:applause:
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Mon Jan-26-09 06:57 PM
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4. Sounds like a great idea |
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Mon Jan-26-09 08:03 PM
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8. I like it! Sign me up.. NT |
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Tue Jan-27-09 12:34 PM
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making high schools require IC³ certification for graduation? Internet and Computing Core CertificationWiki on IC³
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Tue Jan-27-09 01:47 PM
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21. WOW, a lot of you fuckers sure know how to hijack a thread |
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Thanks, but no thanks
(all but 4 replies are on a different topic)
SUCKS!
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Tue Jan-27-09 01:49 PM
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22. the right and MSM have already lost the kids...it's just some of their parents that need |
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access to other sources of information.
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Wiley50
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Tue Jan-27-09 02:00 PM
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23. Yep, that was my thinking |
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but too many here preferred turning my thread into a debate on govt efficiency at running programs
Thanks for your post
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Tue Jan-27-09 06:09 PM
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24. yeah, like the efficiency of private health insurance vs. medicare |
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the private sector is very efficient at skimming off profits, even at the expense of the goods or services they are supposed to be providing.
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