Zyxpsilon

Zyxpsilon

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[quote who="Aroddo" reply="454" id="2353179"]Anyway, regarding the health care reform, money isn't really the issue. The reform should - and that's something anyone can agree with - make health care more cost efficient and better, no matter which form it takes. But instead of discussing it earnestly, political games are played, lies are spoken, rational arguments screamed down. Financed by private insurers.[/quote] Excellent summary of the "situations". L

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[quote who="willistuder" reply="470" id="2353409"]A lot of rich people are rich because they are productive, and provide employment for the rest of the populace. Socialists don't produce wealth, they steal it; they run out of other peoples money sooner or later.[/quote] Duh -- since when socialism doesn't employ people to generate wealth also.

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[quote who="psychoak" reply="448" id="2353100"]They could march right into their neighbors and there's a damn good chance we wouldn't even interfere....[/quote] Such as; India, Japan, Russia or Taiwan? Four of which have better interests to (i dunno, somehow) keep watch rather than interfere when called for. Diplomatically yours or implicitly theirs makes central Asia as much of a bottleneck as Tibet staring up at the Himalayas. No wonder Indonesia and the Phillipines

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[quote who="HG_Eliminator" reply="442" id="2353043"]the government can only print as much as it destroys... other wise the market would be flooded and the value of the dollar would drop dramatically.[/quote] The reasoning behind sustainable growth is that you need productivity & infra-structures; artificial influx by dropping values of both cannot be "compensated" by any coincidental market conditions (be it offered or enforced, btw). That's where some estimated Trading pacts were

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[quote who="WIllythemailboy" reply="434" id="2352617"]...The second was in Canada, where presumably approach #1 was illegal. There they set all employees to minimum wage, with no chance of raises, ever.[/quote] The labor laws in Québec are, how to put it "gently", more obvious & less restrictive on BOTH the employers and any potential workforces. UFCW gave me & plenty of o

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[quote]That's the business model of the military industrial complex.[/quote] Stay tuned, the World (yours & mine) has got the miscellaneous arsenals of nukes to deal with and they're mostly swimming tight, stockpiled and ready. Freeze frames inspired by the Cold War. Investing in power or gambling on fear - you do the atomic clouds math.

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[quote who="Leauki" reply="425" id="2352393"]Cutting military spending is not a brilliant idea in the middle of a war, especially when the military is the most visible advantage... [/quote] Alright then, let's read about what the situation was in March'08; Evaluation of the cost . Deficit? Oil moguls got filty r

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Thanks for the update ID, can it be managed efficiently for the benefit of ALL americans, kept under rational limits, maintained innovative, reasonably progressive? Such as the upcoming strategic pullouts from Iraq & Afghanistan? Now. Today. Evolution is revolution. When it counts.

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You got it! The next hunt is all yours to determinep; using GoogleEarth, between 250m&1km altitude, snap the image, blank out the coordinates, and insert it here with some hints and any questions you'd care asking...

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[quote]Sit. Roll over. Play dead...[/quote] [e digicons] they can negotiate a contract & its fairplay conditions. But everyone knows how tough it is to have some leverage on performance, quality, reliability, capacity, productivity at work without standards & open-minded collaboration within ANY industries in the UnitedSA. Unions or Syndicates invest in workforce <span style="text-decoration: underline;"

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[quote]Yes, spend more and the deficit will decrease![/quote] Oh'com'on -- Stop the sarcasm... this mess is outa control and if they wait much longer, private insurers and the health *INDUSTRY* will increase the expenses sooooo much that people (as in active populations, including government, btw) will keep on losing taxable incomes, houses and their minimal means of living. Fiscality - 101. Bailouts for the ban

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[quote]If this year's attempt at reform fails, what happens?[/quote] Speculative or predictable, here's a guess; the already announced Federal Deficit will double up within the next 3_5 years... and unemployment rates should stagnate near 10_15% on average soon after that.

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Reply to Help please in Modding

DesktopX editing of the file that calls it... TitleWnd.dxpack

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Reply to Maps and Such in Modding

First, How was this specific map created? AFAIC, the default install folder (GC2\Data\CustomMaps... even within corresponding directories of DA or TotA) is the only place where CustomMaps can be loaded from.

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[quote]Money is not evil.[/quote] And yet, all and every Doctors' public Education (as in College, University, etc) isn't free either in Canada. We simply ship 'hem out to the US after investing costly knowledge into their upcoming carreers all trained & qualified ready for highest paid jobs. Now, that's ethics. Gift-wrapped. You're welcome.

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[quote who="SpardaSon21" reply="386" id="2351004"]Canada shouldn't blame the United States for losing its best doctors. Its not our fault they pay their doctors less than we do. If Canada wants to attract and keep good doctors it should consider increasing salaries for them.[/quote] Nobody forces any of these doctors to stay or leave. It's THEIR personal decisions... if they're in this sector for the money (

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Identifying proper or reasonably good competition On-Line has always been kinda of a wild guess; now if tracking of potential opponents makes gaming a match of wits rather than a quest for chatter noises -- so much for the fun or tabulated results in a network of 'champions' looped to find a challenging target that shares common interests. For some, socialization is gameplay with personality. [e digicons]B)[/e] Ideas that break the anonymity barriers can only bring them toget

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[quote who="the_Monk" reply="358" id="2350383"]For example, several years ago we held a referendum here in Canada in relation to the French/English issue (a fairly hot button topic here in Canada).[/quote] Meech Lake (Failed by some Alberta's natives & by Newfoundland (not yet tied with a silly Labrador ampersand) prime minister intervention & indirectly by the Night of the Long Knives backstabbing of other Provinces against Québec) or <a href="http://en.wikipe

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[quote who="Mooster" reply="15" id="2348746"]You should also do Canada's[/quote] Now it stands at ZERO$ net cost for me. Unemployed, until i'm not. But, (and, this is very important) i've investe d plenty over the many years when i worked into two specific and somehow differently managed "systems"; the Confederate and the Provincial (Québec, btw). All co

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[quote]I don't think I have to spell out how allowing frivolous lawsuits and inflated settlements damages the integrity of health care.[/quote] IIRC, a Lungs cancer patient is still enjoying a whole bunch of millions in Florida for going after the Tobacco industry. Should any car manufacturers be help responsible for clunkers (of late) that POLLUTED her lungs too? That's health, ya know. That's even jobs in agriculture or assembly plants.

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