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The real cost of health care
Private-insurance administrative costs in the U.S. are 12.7 cents of a dollar, and as high as 18 cents for some companies, said Karen Davis, president of the Commonwealth Fund. Government plans, including Medicare and Medicaid, spend 5.8 cents excluding costs of private drug plans, she said. In Canada 4.2 cents is spent on administration.
ok, i'll listen to you rant about troop build-up if...
you can answer the following questions:
1. Where Afghanistan is on a map?
2. Who the Taliban are?
3. The nationalities of the 19 9/11 hijackers and where they were trained?
4. The name of the top US commander in Afghanistan?
5. The current timetable for pulling out of Iraq?
6. The total financial cost of both wars: Iraq and Afghanistan?
7. Military deaths thus far in both wars?
8. The estimated civilian deaths in both wars?in case help is needed, here’re some resources:
i don’t want war anymore than the next peace-loving tree-hugger, but i’m more than a little annoyed with ill-informed reactionary opinions. if you’re going to say he’s wrong, back it up with some information, reasoning and alternatives.
i look forward to hearing your plan.
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SARAH PALIN PARKING LOT
America, I Am Disappoint of the Day: Sarah Palin supporters, gathered outside a Going Rogue book signing event in Columbus, Ohio, are presented with basic questions about her policy positions.Vacularity ensues.[via.]
Oh it’s that left wing GOTCHA media again.
“I’m an American. We don’t have Czars in America.”
Really? We’ve had them since 1926. Reagan had Czars, Bush I & II had Czars.
It’s OK that we have misinformed people like this cause they just want to meet someone famous, right?
“I watch Fox News a lot! The mainstream media is jeopardizing my freedom of religion!”
I hope you’re right but I’m blaming you if suddenly this dipshit is shooting coyotes from Air Force One in three years.
Fox News and the last 10 months explained in a five minute video. And they wonder why they are singled out.
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Fox Lies: Cato Institute To The Rescue
by Mario Piperni:
No one would ever accuse the Cato Intstiute, a libertarian think tank, of bowing to President Obama and his administration. They are no friends of Democrats or liberals. So when Cato comes to the defense of Obama, it’s worth noting.
Two weeks ago, Foxnews.com posted this story…
President Obama has shattered the budget record for first-year presidents — spending nearly double what his predecessor did when he came into office and far exceeding the first-year tabs for any other U.S. president in history. In fiscal 2009 the federal government spent $3.52 trillion …That fiscal year covered the last three-and-a-half months of George W. Bush’s term and the first eight-and-a-half months of Obama’s.
[…]
When Mr. Obama was sworn into office the federal deficit for this year stood at $422 billion. At the end of October, it stood at $1.42 trillion.
Daniel J. Mitchell of Cato, who wrote he felt nauseated by the Fox story, felt a need to set the record straight.
I’m a big fan of criticizing Obama’s profligacy, but it is inaccurate and/or dishonest to blame him for Bush’s mistakes. At the risk of repeating my earlier post, the 2009 fiscal year began on October 1, 2008, and the vast majority of the spending for that year was the result of Bush Administration policies. Yes, Obama did add to the waste with the so-called stimulus, the omnibus appropriation, the CHIP bill, and the cash-for-clunkers nonsense, but as the chart illustrates, these boondoggles only amounted to just a tiny percentage of the FY2009 total — about $140 billion out of a $3.5 trillion budget.
So if we do the math, President Obama is responsible for 4% of the 2009 federal budget. The other 96% is Bush’s handiwork. How strange that Fox did not mention any of that.
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Fox Lies: Cato Institute To The Rescue
by Mario Piperni:
No one would ever accuse the Cato Intstiute, a libertarian think tank, of bowing to President Obama and his administration. They are no friends of Democrats or liberals. So when Cato comes to the defense of Obama, it’s worth noting.
Two weeks ago, Foxnews.com posted this story…
President Obama has shattered the budget record for first-year presidents — spending nearly double what his predecessor did when he came into office and far exceeding the first-year tabs for any other U.S. president in history. In fiscal 2009 the federal government spent $3.52 trillion …That fiscal year covered the last three-and-a-half months of George W. Bush’s term and the first eight-and-a-half months of Obama’s.
[…]
When Mr. Obama was sworn into office the federal deficit for this year stood at $422 billion. At the end of October, it stood at $1.42 trillion.
Daniel J. Mitchell of Cato, who wrote he felt nauseated by the Fox story, felt a need to set the record straight.
I’m a big fan of criticizing Obama’s profligacy, but it is inaccurate and/or dishonest to blame him for Bush’s mistakes. At the risk of repeating my earlier post, the 2009 fiscal year began on October 1, 2008, and the vast majority of the spending for that year was the result of Bush Administration policies. Yes, Obama did add to the waste with the so-called stimulus, the omnibus appropriation, the CHIP bill, and the cash-for-clunkers nonsense, but as the chart illustrates, these boondoggles only amounted to just a tiny percentage of the FY2009 total — about $140 billion out of a $3.5 trillion budget.
So if we do the math, President Obama is responsible for 4% of the 2009 federal budget. The other 96% is Bush’s handiwork. How strange that Fox did not mention any of that.
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mmmmm…how’s that hamburger sounding now?
The total number of Coca-Cola cans sold per worldwide is 67,873,309. Diet Coke and Coke Zero sold 35,387,241, while My Coke sold 103,260,550. Yes, that’s all per day.
So using only classic Coca-Cola’s daily sales figures, that means 24,773,757,785 are sold every year. Twenty-four billion cans. That is indeed a lot of paint and paint removal products. Because this doesn’t only affect the production. It also affects the recycling process, eliminating one step:
The naked can help to reduce air and water pollution occurred in its coloring process. It also reduces energy and effort to separate toxic color paint from aluminum in recycling process. Huge amount of energy and paint required to manufacture colored cans will be saved. Instead of toxic paint, manufacturers process aluminum with a pressing machine that indicates brand identity on surface.
Sounds good to me, and it even looks better if you take into account all kinds of Coke. That brings up the number to 75,380,201,500 cans. (via Gizmodo)
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