evulninja Wrote:id rather have bush than obama.. obama hasnt done shit so far.. and i doubt he will do anything but bankrupt the country

evulninja Wrote:i agree with that. but if this health care bill goes through.. were fucked.

evulninja Wrote:eh i dont know about the health care shit.. i think i heard somewhere it was gonna cost like a trillion dollars

evulninja Wrote:i hope youre right. its gonna go through wether we want it or not. i know i wouldnt vote for it if it were up to me.

evulninja Wrote:never been to detroit. i dont think i want to go either.

STRetard Wrote:It's good in theory, but then you'll always have the leeches... look at detroit, the invaded and sucked it dry...

CrAzYT Wrote:What I enjoy is that many parts of the world, mostly people still under European influence, like to give Americans the persona of idiots. This seems contradictory to me, as many of them flock to US school for undergraduate and graduate degrees, because everyone around the world knows for sure that the United States has the best graduate schools in the world, hands down. If we're such lumbering fools, how then have we been able to establish and maintain such high quality universities?

On the issue of electing a president - how can you honestly sit and consider that entirely the fault of the people? Yes, we elect them, but we're not exactly allowed to know/read about every candidate, as our news stations strictly control who gets air time and who does not. Running for president is a business, and a business needs marketing. If you're not allowed to market, no one is going to buy your product. First of all, to even be considered for the live debates on TV, you needed to have a certain amount of campaign funds, which was in the millions (Mike Gravel, for instance, did not meet the qualifications thus was not allowed to debate, even though he was a Senator of Alaska for 12 years). Not to mention Chris Dodd did a study after the debates - the people will the most campaign funds got more questions and time to answer questions than the candidates with lesser funds.

If the American people are anything, I would say they are listless - it has simply reached a point where we can't give a shit who is elected because they are all the same. All people in the Senate are slimy crooks, and they have no term limits, so they seldom lose their seat - just look at the Kings of Massachusetts, John Kerry and Ted Kennedy. For the most part, people elected president nowadays are connected to these American Royal Families somehow. We the people simply cannot win, so what's the difference between a Bush and an Obama? Pretty much nothing. What's the difference between a liberal and a conservative? Nothing - they're both extremists.

So we might as well not have a universal health care system, because the only people who matter in this country are the rich, so lets give them the best doctors, medicines, and care while the lower classes can slowly rot in neutrality. I worked at Johns Hopkins hospital for a year (when I was doing my PhD), which is usually ranked #1 or #2 in the country (in contention with Harvard), and the shit I saw some medical doctors present was enough to make me sick (and them sick, too).

/rant