From: William Clark on
In article
<96945bc9-9a9c-4fd2-91af-3235de4528cb(a)q22g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,
dsc-ky <Dudley.Cornman(a)eku.edu> wrote:

> > As soon as my kids are out of high-school my land-line phone is gone.- Hide
> > quoted text -
>
> Why the wait?

When I was in Finland about ten years ago, it was announced that there
were more cell phones than land lines for the first time.
From: William Clark on
In article <MPG.26b0b12c6f1f163c98a14b(a)news.giganews.com>,
BAR <screw(a)you.com> wrote:

> In article <clark-33DBCA.07541821072010(a)charm.magnus.acs.ohio-
> state.edu>, clark(a)nospam.matsceng.ohio-state.edu says...
> >
> > In article <MPG.26b0a7afd20d41e798a14a(a)news.giganews.com>,
> > BAR <screw(a)you.com> wrote:
> >
> > > In article <v8jd46h1tk0ap2ckbe4dbfcrh8rtqa05fh(a)4ax.com>,
> > > bknight(a)conramp.net says...
> > > >
> > > > On 21 Jul 2010 10:16:16 GMT, Moderate <nospam(a)nomail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >The Obama economy is much worse than the Bush economy.
> > > >
> > > > He's doing his best to stem the Bush economy free fall that got us
> > > > here.
> > >
> > > Killing the private sector, the engine of job creation and wealth
> > > creation, is not doing his best unless you believe that his best is to
> > > destroy the country.
> > >
> > > The best thing for the current economy is tax cuts, tax cuts and more
> > > tax cuts. The government is not a job creator nor revenue generator. The
> > > government is a consumer.
> >
> > January 2009 - monthly job losses ran at over 700,000 per month.
> > "Killing the private sector"? It was DOA from Dubya.
>
> Just wait until January 2011 you will see some more killing of the
> private sector. But, your precious public funding for your "research"
> will continue as long as your research goes along the party line.

"Gotcha", didn't I? That is clear from the rapid attempt to shift the
focus.

And, please, remember that while you write this twaddle, someone in a
university somewhere is developing the next generation of hardware and
software that will keep you employed until you reach that retirement
nirvana.
From: bknight on
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:47:57 -0600, Howard Brazee <howard(a)brazee.net>
wrote:

>On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:36:03 -0500, bknight(a)conramp.net wrote:
>
>>>The Obama economy is much worse than the Bush economy.
>>
>>He's doing his best to stem the Bush economy free fall that got us
>>here.
>
>His best would include not expanding expensive foreign wars.

As a matter of fact it just might. I want those wars gone too...and
he said that it was something that he was going to do.

I have to think that after being elected President, and getting more
facts from the military, CIA, NSA, etc., he figures there must be
merit in sticking with it longer.
But then you, and others on the "think tank RSG", know so much more
than he does.

BK
From: Alan Baker on
In article <MPG.26b0a6f71cd2a4a598a149(a)news.giganews.com>,
BAR <screw(a)you.com> wrote:

> In article <alangbaker-DA11CF.22172320072010(a)news.shawcable.com>,
> alangbaker(a)telus.net says...
> > > > > The poor should be paying for their own health care just like they
> > > > > pay
> > > > > for their own food, cars, cell phone, plasma TVs, ....
> > > >
> > > > This fantasy "poor" you've invented is solely so you can abdicate your
> > > > responsibilities as a human being.
> > >
> > > Call it whatever you want. I am not responsible for someone else's bad
> > > choice just like I am not entitled to benefit from someone else's good
> > > choices.
> > >
> > > If you want to talk about abdicating responsibilities as a human being I
> > > will assume that you have done just that due to the fact that you
> > > haven't given all of your means above your basic needs away to the poor.
> >
> > Nope. I recognize that we have a responsibility to help other people in
> > need because it is the right thing to do. That doesn't mean "giving all
> > of [one's] means above basic needs away".
> >
> > Look up "false dichotomy".
> >
>
> Where does your responsibility come from, to help others.

My sense of right and wrong. My status as a fellow human being. Personal
integrity.

Are all these things alien to you?

--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
<http://gallery.me.com/alangbaker/100008/DSCF0162/web.jpg>
From: MNMikeW on

"Carbon" <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
news:4c465058$0$4974$9a6e19ea(a)unlimited.newshosting.com...
> On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:13:26 +0000, Moderate wrote:
>> Carbon <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:33:54 +0000, Moderate wrote:
>>>> Carbon <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:32:29 -0700, dene wrote:
>>>>>> "dsc-ky" <Dudley.Cornman(a)eku.edu> wrote in message
>>>>>> news:05db752e-22da-4c95-91c0-
>>>>>> c95b3d95e03f(a)d8g2000yqf.googlegroups.com...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So what makes "others" right? It's going to mean a lot of money
>>>>>>> out of out pockets... at the very least.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The insured pay the uninsured medical bills. That's plenty of out
>>>>>> of pocket for the responsible insured. This distinction with O's
>>>>>> plan is that the uninsured slacker will have the choice to buy
>>>>>> insurance or pay extra taxes. Either way, they pay instead of us
>>>>>> paying their bills for them.
>>>>>
>>>>> There are other consequences. I worked with a fellow who had been
>>>>> laid off for nearly a year due to the recession. He could not
>>>>> afford COBRA and keep his family fed. He got cancer. He died last
>>>>> week.
>>>>
>>>> How does Obama's plan help your friend?
>>>
>>> It doesn't. Universal healthcare would have helped him, but big
>>> healthcare did everything they could to get that shot down.
>>
>> Obama care is big health care. Actually, bigger health care.
>
> How do you know his plan will cost more than the system it's replacing?
> Fox News?

CBO.