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   M Henri Day said, 5 months ago

   That bulge at the waistline is also known as the insurance companies. A strict course of sit-ups to reduce the flab is advised….

   Henri

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   LLeRay said, 5 months ago

   I don’t think that bulge will go without liposuction or other serious surgery.

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   MrGromit said, 5 months ago

   …because nothing screams ‘efficiency’ like anything run by the government.

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   motivemagus said, 5 months ago

   MrGromit, ever heard of the VA? Used to run very well. FEMA? Ran great under Clinton, because he had a professional in charge instead of a political appointee like “Brownie.” NASA? Got us to the moon. The National Parks? Get a lot done.
   And the military is, by the way, a government institution.
   Truth is, even an inefficient government-run healthcare system – which is NOT what Obama is proposing – would cut out a lot of fat, such as that which currently goes to pay profits to parasitic insurance companies, or gets lost in the wastage that takes place in every single doctor’s office having to manage a zillion inconsistent and hostile insurance companies. I’m not speaking out of pure opinion here – the Catholic Healthcare Association, an industry association of more than 1200 members, identified the single biggest problem with American healthcare today being the insurance industry.

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   DrCanuck said, 5 months ago

   motive: I like your comment that they “used” to run very well. Then Reagan came along, stated that government WAS the problem, and then went about proving it.

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   dtroutma said, 5 months ago

   Enron and AIG are prime examples of “privatized” efficiency- at getting into our wallets.

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   harleyquinn said, 5 months ago

   Well we have the fattest poor in the world so I guess it is a good match. I mean they are the ones crying for more and more free stuff that the evil rich will have to pay for.
   Maybe I can start yelling at Fat people to put down the food and get out because I will be paying their care.
   What is for lunch will have to be determined by committee and voted on. That will make it more efficient.

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   DrCanuck said, 5 months ago

   And then Reagan decided to “get the government off the backs of business,” allowing them to victimize the American consumer without regulation or oversight, resulting in Enron, AIG, Anderson and Freddie/Fannie, poisoned American food, lead-painted Chinese toys, off-shoring, Bermuda tax-shelters, and on and on. Took them 30 years, but Big Business pilfered all the capital out of America’s middle and working classes, resulting in the greatest transfer of wealth the world has ever seen from the middle class upward to the wealthy investors.

   And this is the guy you worship? Phew!

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   Tigger said, 5 months ago

   You’re going on a Diet

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    benbrilling said, 5 months ago

    Health care inefficiency? You’re kidding! Our health care system is the most efficient thing I’ve ever seen for increasing the wealth of the insurance companies

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    deadheadzan said, 5 months ago

    The wealth of insurance companies has been a concern in my experience, since the 1960’s. Then they got into running the Health Care industry and costs sky rocketed.

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    Machado said, 5 months ago

    Socialized medicine in the hands of the Federal Government will be as successful as the Postal Service..

    With frequent rates increases (your taxes) and forced to only operate (pun intended) four days a week to survive.

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    senorbullwinkle said, 5 months ago

    MAKUHCU,^ Where’d you get the Cristal ball ? 99 cent store ?
    .
    PS what’s wrong with the post office ? They come by here 6 days a week. Maybe if you didn’t shoot at them they would stop at your house
    Every notice the price of gasoline.
    I went to McDonald’s, Did you you cant get a 15 cent hamburger there any more. MA COO COO do you work for the post office ?

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    Gary Kleppe said, 5 months ago

    Mach, go and try getting Fed Ex to deliver anything for forty-four cents. Come and report back to us after they stop laughing.

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    senorbullwinkle said, 5 months ago

    MA KOOK, I use to haul the mail between L.A. and S.F. Cal. Did you know that inside the post office system they work 24 / 7. Yes, trucks and planes are coming in and out of postal centers 24 hrs a day 7 days a week. there’s just no way to stop even a few hours.

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    subtlefuge said, 5 months ago

    Harley, way to show your elitism with that comment. Overweight poor people are not overweight because they necessarily eat too much food, but rather because they eat unhealthy, overly-processed cheap food. You know, the kind that is a product of unregulated capitalism.

    Machado, I’ve never ever had a problem getting my mail through the US postal service. It comes every day right to my home. I have, however, had packages lost by both UPS and Fed Ex. I’ll stick with government-run, thank you very much.

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    Machado said, 5 months ago

    The US postal service is bankrupted, they had government bailouts in the past and several consecutive rate increases to stay afloat, they just had one across the board a few months back.

    The PO is pushing out old employees to early retirement to cut expenses, and also cut backs on OT among many other cost saving measures, like more ‘walking’ for carriers instead of driving the PO truck, and they are about to recommend whether to cut Thursdays or Saturdays off the delivery schedule.

    I don’t have any crystal ball, I just read newspapers while they last….

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    Gary Kleppe said, 5 months ago

    “I have, however, had packages lost by both UPS and Fed Ex. I’ll stick with government-run, thank you very much.”

    A few years ago around Xmas time, I came back home and found a Fed Ex package on my back stoop. It wasn’t for me – it was for somebody in the next village over. They hadn’t even hit the right zip code.

    So I called Fed Ex and (after a lengthy wait to get an actual human being on the phone) told them about it. They assured me someone would be right over to get it.

    A week later, the package was still sitting in the same spot. I said screw it and delivered it myself. Let’s hear it for private industry!

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    senorbullwinkle said, 5 months ago

    MACUCKOO, Seems like their doing it right, if there broke. Their NOT suppose to make money, their suppose to do it as cheaply as possible. They raise the price when necessary. So what’s your complaint ? people are losing their job’s ? Big deal, we want America to fail, and you dont want to pay any more taxes,do you ?
    If we had a private post office in every town, say a 150,000 of them, and had to pay each post office your mail went through, and every plane and truck, that would be so much better,and you could pass the mail around and around and really make some money.Like Texas to L.A. by way of New York.
    PS use some glass cleaner on your Cristal ball, and try reading a different newspaper.