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re: What is socialism anyway?
"Countries with a socialized healthcare can very well live on a free market economy." For a while.
Tom Brosz
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2/4/2005 8:05:25 PM
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How IS the economy doing over there?
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Aren't you Americans glad you don't have to live with socialized medicine?
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LJ
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2/2/2005 5:51:21 PM
Favorite single-payer quote
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Tom Brosz
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2/5/2005 10:20:43 PM
Market forces
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Tom Brosz
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2/5/2005 4:46:40 AM
State of health "care" in shambles
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Lindy
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2/4/2005 5:54:14 PM
And those are the lucky ones - many just don't get the care to have bills.
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Bowser
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2/3/2005 2:08:24 AM
I have lived under socialized medicine...
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Larry J
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2/2/2005 10:34:18 PM
I had a car once
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LJ
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2/4/2005 1:15:11 AM
I was underwhelmed by Australian socialized medicine
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Gary
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2/4/2005 6:31:37 AM
That would be remarkable
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Tony
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2/4/2005 4:04:34 PM
What a load of ignorant selfserving bullshit
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Daniel
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2/4/2005 11:24:00 AM
"progressively rescinded?" Why?
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Tom Brosz
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2/4/2005 8:06:01 PM
"The majority of people posting at this place are increasingly striking me as ideologically-motivated ignorant fools"
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Lindy
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2/4/2005 5:30:43 PM
my, 'three months' goes by so fast doesnt it!?
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R.L.
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2/5/2005 11:41:35 PM
RL
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Lindy
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2/7/2005 6:43:41 AM
Well, that was nasty and abusive!
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R.L.
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2/7/2005 6:18:36 PM
So why are you still here then, particularly after you said your goodbyes AND pulled your profile off the album page?
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Daniel
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2/5/2005 1:49:10 PM
Cripes, who the heck is twisting your knickers?
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Tom Brosz
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2/5/2005 9:48:52 PM
Why?
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Lindy
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2/5/2005 5:24:23 PM
Just SOME of the lefties are
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p
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2/4/2005 8:34:36 PM
Yugos were. There was a reason for that.
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Tom Brosz
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2/4/2005 1:26:55 AM
Oh right - I forgot - anything connected with socialism is automatically bad
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LJ
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2/4/2005 2:20:38 AM
Forget it Laurie - you're wasting your time.
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Daniel
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2/4/2005 11:28:21 AM
re: anything connected with socialism
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Tom Brosz
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2/4/2005 5:39:00 AM
re: What is socialism anyway?
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Raoul
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2/4/2005 5:27:01 PM
Exactly, Raoul
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Daniel
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2/5/2005 2:04:54 PM
re: Exactly
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Tom Brosz
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2/5/2005 10:06:20 PM
re: What is socialism anyway?
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Tom Brosz
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2/4/2005 8:20:22 PM
Yada yada yada
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Lindy
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2/5/2005 5:38:00 PM
This isn't the 1930s any more.
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Tom Brosz
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2/5/2005 9:58:27 PM
No. It's this cycle's version of the 1920s.
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Mary Anne
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2/6/2005 7:49:40 PM
Words have exact meanings.
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Tom Brosz
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2/6/2005 10:39:36 PM
Fine. I want a piece of the White House.
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Mary Anne
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2/6/2005 11:45:13 PM
"How did the prosperous get prosperous?"
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Tom Brosz
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2/7/2005 3:46:33 AM
So entrepreneurs do this all by themselves?
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Mary Anne
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2/7/2005 5:04:25 AM
re: entrepreneurs
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Tom Brosz
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2/7/2005 5:52:55 AM
"Countries with a socialized healthcare can very well live on a free market economy." For a while.
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Tom Brosz
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2/4/2005 8:05:25 PM
How IS the economy doing over there?
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LJ
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2/4/2005 10:16:03 PM
Socialism suxs
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Gary
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2/4/2005 6:34:28 AM
re: Yeah.
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Tom Brosz
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2/2/2005 10:08:16 PM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.