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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 17, 2008 03:05


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I don' t spend any money going out of the country. I couldn' t care less about going to Europe. What other people do is their own business not mine. I' m living more than comfortably at my house.


You mean your parents house?

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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 17, 2008 03:09
Damn right.
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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 17, 2008 05:27

Ive been preaching this at the beginning of the race. Don' t get me wrong I would love to see a black man in office. If you base the choice off of Americas past Obama will not be the president.



I' d say both Hillary and Obama were DOA .
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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 03:08

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Nah, I am more aware of the world than you are. You haven' t even been to europe, typical dumbass in debt on a failing economy in a drowning country that is still stupid enough to vote republican.
More like a country that is stupid enough to vote period. There is no republican and there is no democrat. There are thieves and nothing more.


No.

I don' t know how republicans do it to be honest, republican is a party mostly for those that are well off. Yet most republican voters you run into are not well off, and are complete morons.

For instance take Rampage, he is full of debt and an economical failure, you would think he would vote for the party that represents his interests, but he doesn' t.

I was speaking to a Woman that has no healthcare (her employer doesn' t provide it) and she is voting republican, WTF is wrong with people?

I understand if people like me vote republican, I am in the upper class, but it boggles the mind when people like Rampage and that woman votes for parties who' s only goal is to keep them in debt and keep them without healthcare.

The biggest mind*** you could experience is watching poor ass naturalized immigirants (mexicans) actually voting republican, are you ***ing kidding me? It' s like they want to stay in the ghetto, they don' t want to go to college, and they don' t want success. They just want to give it to people like me so I can exploit them further.

I assume it has to do with republican brain washing and branding of religion, most of latin america is catholic so I can see a naturalized mexican being stupid enough to vote for bush just because they have the same religion.
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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 03:29
It' s amazing watching you talk out of your ass. Especially when it comes to me. You don' t know anything about me. And you can say you' re in the upper class all day while hiding behind a computer monitor and how much smarter and better you are than other people but all you come off as is some dumbass whose only source of enjoyment is telling people how great he is on the internet because he doesn' t have to prove anything. You' re just a common internet troll without a life.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand you' re blocked.
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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 04:44

I don' t know how republicans do it to be honest, republican is a party mostly for those that are well off. Yet most republican voters you run into are not well off, and are complete morons.

For instance take Rampage, he is full of debt and an economical failure, you would think he would vote for the party that represents his interests, but he doesn' t.

I was speaking to a Woman that has no healthcare (her employer doesn' t provide it) and she is voting republican, WTF is wrong with people?

I understand if people like me vote republican, I am in the upper class, but it boggles the mind when people like Rampage and that woman votes for parties who' s only goal is to keep them in debt and keep them without healthcare.

The biggest mind*** you could experience is watching poor ass naturalized immigirants (mexicans) actually voting republican, are you ***ing kidding me? It' s like they want to stay in the ghetto, they don' t want to go to college, and they don' t want success. They just want to give it to people like me so I can exploit them further.

I assume it has to do with republican brain washing and branding of religion, most of latin america is catholic so I can see a naturalized mexican being stupid enough to vote for bush just because they have the same religion.


You are one negative guy. Why must you talk trash and call people names over the net. Its not like you even know them. Rampage is probably a good guy so what if he' s middle class so am I. You need an attitude adjustment.

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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 05:16
That' s right... since you can' t argue with his logical political standing it' s probably just best to ignore him


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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 05:21
No, he' s an asshole, that' s why I' m ignoring him. He' s a typical internet troll.
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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 05:30
Everybody' s an asshole. But being an asshole doesn' t stop him being right.

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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 05:47
He' s not right. You want to know why I vote Republican? Because when broken down to a basic level Republicans are for smaller government and don' t expect the government to coddle people. Republicans expect people to work to achieve goals. They don' t feel a need to reward people that don' t put the effort in. Democrats on the other hand want the government to be bigger and to have its hands in everything. They want to actively influence people' s lives. It' s like that bullshit affirmative action. People that don' t necessarily work as hard are rewarded just as much. I think that' s crap. That' s not the role of a government, at least it shouldn' t be.

If you want a government that has a strong influence on your life that' s your opinion. I won' t say it' s wrong, I just think it' s fucking retarded. I don' t feel my tax money should be used as a charity.

And what the fuck does this have to do with buying a PS3? That' s another reason I blocked him, none of his posts pertain to anything of relevance. It' s always about how much better he is than everybody else and how people are " poor" and stupid. He' s a troll.
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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 06:58

He' s not right. You want to know why I vote Republican? Because when broken down to a basic level Republicans are for smaller government and don' t expect the government to coddle people. Republicans expect people to work to achieve goals. They don' t feel a need to reward people that don' t put the effort in. Democrats on the other hand want the government to be bigger and to have its hands in everything. They want to actively influence people' s lives. It' s like that bullshit affirmative action. People that don' t necessarily work as hard are rewarded just as much. I think that' s crap. That' s not the role of a government, at least it shouldn' t be.

If you want a government that has a strong influence on your life that' s your opinion. I won' t say it' s wrong, I just think it' s fucking retarded. I don' t feel my tax money should be used as a charity.


I get both ways of life. Denmark would be the most extreme democrat you could imagine running things.

With higher taxes you arent offering charity, but unsurering safety. In denmark the health care system is free, need a kidney, here you go, heart surgery, kemotherapy, even janitors and factory workers deserve to live.

School, in denmark you dont have to pay to go to school, hell we even get money for it. an average 18 year old would get 300$ a month for attending college, the amoutn changes to more if they live alone and when your over 20.

By unsurering welfare you affectively lower crime, people dont have to steal to get by even when unemployed, sometimes its not peoples own fault they are unempled (though at times it is ofcourse)

There are lots of benefits for higher taxes anda big goverment.

Im undecided at whats best.

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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 07:16
I couldn' t care less about giving an opinion on this useless politic debate (specially when I don' t know enough about the US to make an informed, correct opinion) but I just have to say this...


If they need a specialist they come to America for it. The only good thing about national healthcare is it makes routine doctor visits possible for poor people. But in the end, who cares about them anyway?


You are an idiot. Hopefully life hits you hard enough that maybe you' ll see things differently, but that' s doubtful it seems, judging by moronic and selfish statements like this

Ok, carry on.


I don' t spend any money going out of the country. I couldn' t care less about going to Europe. What other people do is their own business not mine. I' m living more than comfortably at my house.


Why? Is pretty and full of culture! The world is waiting for you Ramp
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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 07:17
Well VX the biggest argument against a big government is that it has too much power and that if said power was to be used for " evil" then it wouldn' t be very good. Now with a smaller central government the power gets distributed to the local governments(which also allows for more effective governing) and the central government can never take over(become a monarchy, dictatorship, or any of those other nasty government types). Now this same philosophy is why I am against communism, we would all love to be rich and have everybody be the same and everybody be happy, but if that power was to fall to someone who uses for their own gains then it wouldn' t be effective.


On the healtcare issue, I think what dan was trying to say is that we have some of the best doctors because they get paid a lot to become really good and if we have a national healthcare that pays more basic rates and doctors have less control over how much they make they might not be inclined to do what they do so well. Now I am not saying that all doctors are this self serving and that they won' t getting paid very much, but as an overall the medical field is very capitalist in america and so taking the capitalistness(probably not a word) out of may hurt it.
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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 08:34
Healthcare much like many other things needs to have a balance between the two sides, with competition/work/money and reward on one side and charity/socialism/benefits on the other.

I work for the NHS in the UK, so I can see the value of allowing everyone access to such an essential service, but imo thats all it should be, the basics. Once you' ve got an equal and evenly distributed baseline to work from, you should then expect to pay more/work harder to get that extra less necessary medical care.

The UK gets it wrong in that it goes too far towards the socialist side, the government can' t possibly expect people to give up life' s comforts through rising taxation, in order to pay for everything the NHS needs. Our healthcare is still badly underfunded and understaffed and disorganised. Don' t get me wrong, its a good system that works for the most part, and I' m gladly working for it, but it could be a lot better with some element of privatisation.

The US on the other hand goes too far the other way imo. Sure highly sought after doctors get paid shit-loads, but I couldn' t be a doctor there earning a bucket load (money in buckets?) knowing that essential healthcare was not in place for everyone that needs it.

So I dont blame anyone for expecting people to work to survive, everyone' s got to do something to keep the world moving, and should be rewarded more for doing more. But at the same time, not everyone is as bright, or strong, or good-looking, or talented, or have the same opportunities, to have the their basic needs - and there needs to be some kind of socialist system in place to keep everyone alive.


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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 08:45


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On the healtcare issue, I think what dan was trying to say is that we have some of the best doctors because they get paid a lot to become really good and if we have a national healthcare that pays more basic rates and doctors have less control over how much they make they might not be inclined to do what they do so well. Now I am not saying that all doctors are this self serving and that they won' t getting paid very much, but as an overall the medical field is very capitalist in america and so taking the capitalistness(probably not a word) out of may hurt it.


Rubbish. You either do your job properly or you find yourself without it.

The way it' s set up right now - only the people with money are getting the best healthcare. Everybody should be getting the same level of treatment.

We have had free healthcare - paid for through taxes for 60 years. It covers everything from dentistry to long-term chronic illnesses. Treatment is free, save for small charges for prescriptions if you' re gainfully employed. If you' re unemployed, elderly, a child or on a low income then prescriptions are free too.

The USA is the only western first world nation that doesn' t have national healthcare. It' s pathetic. And the reason is because it' s big business for pharmaceutical companies. If you think otherwise then you' re fucking clown.

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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 08:46
VX, while I see how that sounds ideal and all in terms of health care I have to ask how the tax brackets work in your country. Here in the US the more you make the larger percentage of your salary is taxed. I see that as being quite unfair. The reasoning behind it is apparently the more money you make the less you really need. How is it the government' s right to decide that? As you make more money and rise the in the class standings you are basically being punished for it by having to pay more and more. It' s their money, they earned it, and I don' t see why the government is taking that from them. I' m all for the idea of a flat tax. I think everyone should have a fixed percentage of their income taxed, not this varied crap we have.

That brings up my tax money being used as charity. People can get away with getting paid unemployment for a long ass time here. The system is frequently abused. Also, here in the US it seems like a majority of the people you see on the streets, at least with my experience doing random volunteer work at soup kitchens and such, most people have the ability to work but would rather live off charity and unemployment. I mean really? How hard is it to get a job at a fast food place or Wal Mart? Yet my tax money funds that stuff.

Interesting but true, I was listening to the radio while down in Fort Lauderdale and a guy was being interviewed that went undercover as a homeless person to find out just how bad it was for the homeless there since Fort Lauderdale and Miami is a fairly rich area. What the guy found was shocking. The homeless people were on weekends making up to a thousand dollars a day collecting money on key street corners and such. They also had multiple children on purpose to get more money off unemployment and used the children to collect hand outs because people are more likely to give children cash rather than adults. How f*cked up is that? I mean you literally see homeless people walking around with iPods down there and people don' t catch on. If they have an iPod they have to have a computer to charge it and get songs on there. All the while my tax money is still going to them. I have nothing against personal charity, but I don' t feel it should be the role of the government to support that kind of crap.

I come from a family where my grandparents on both sides of my family came from fairly poor backgrounds. My grandparents on my mom side were in poverty in Poland before coming over to the US as children. My Grandfather who had absolutely nothing when he came to this country died with a worth of several million, and you' d never have guessed it by meeting him. He busted his ass doing manual labor and saved all he could while making investments and trying to support a family of 8. The only thing he ever did was manual labor his entire life and he died a millionaire. My grandfather on my dad' s side didn' t die with quite as much money but he also supported a family of 7 and was quite wealthy by the time he passed. They started at the very bottom and worked their way up without handouts. Having this background I' m very grounded in the idea that hard work pays off in the end and that' s how it should be. I don' t think the government should have a part in that.
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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 08:53


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Rubbish. You either do your job properly or you find yourself without it.


That' s a very, very flawed argument. It' s also a core reason why Communism while at it' s purest form is quite ideal, will never work. Why should someone put the time and effort into becoming a doctor if they aren' t going to have anything extra to show for it? If pay for doctors in this country drops because of a fully covered health care system there' s going to be a lot less incentive to go into that field. 8 years minimum of schooling to get a job doing extremely complicated stuff and only earn a wage that some guy in another field doing much easier work is making... why? The world isn' t perfect and shouldn' t be treated as such.
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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 08:54
I suppose you' ve seen the worst side to socialism Rampage, but there are equally disturbing realities to capitalism too. Abuse goes both ways.


f pay for doctors in this country drops because of a fully covered health care system there' s going to be a lot less incentive to go into that field. 8 years minimum of schooling to get a job doing extremely complicated stuff and only earn a wage that some guy in another field doing much easier work is making... why? The world isn' t perfect and shouldn' t be treated as such.


Depends what kinda doctor you wanna be. I think its worth it, sure I' d rather earn more than I do, but meh I dont need all that much tbh, I' ve got the life I want.
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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 09:08


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Rubbish. You either do your job properly or you find yourself without it.


That' s a very, very flawed argument. It' s also a core reason why Communism while at it' s purest form is quite ideal, will never work. Why should someone put the time and effort into becoming a doctor if they aren' t going to have anything extra to show for it? If pay for doctors in this country drops because of a fully covered health care system there' s going to be a lot less incentive to go into that field. 8 years minimum of schooling to get a job doing extremely complicated stuff and only earn a wage that some guy in another field doing much easier work is making... why? The world isn' t perfect and shouldn' t be treated as such.


Again, America is the only western first world country without universal healthcare. It works everywhere else.

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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 09:21
God save America.


He' s not right. You want to know why I vote Republican? Because when broken down to a basic level Republicans are for smaller government and don' t expect the government to coddle people.


If you think Republicans represent traditional conservatism you' re living in a fucking dream world. They pissed away hundreds of billions in an illegal war. They spend more than the democrates would have except the spending didn' t benefit Americans. Bush basically stole money from social security to kill half a million Iraqis for no reason at all. The current republican party needs to be lynched.

My philosophy is that there is no supreme system. Every country in every year is different, and thus demands different strategies for optimal success. In most cases we need to change governments just to fix the fuck ups from the last guys.

America is the richest country in the world. It' s pretty disgusting that they don' t have basic things like health care. Americans have fucked themselves.

It' s about the balance of power. I don' t like a big government making useless laws and effectively taking a giant shit on our freedom but at the same time I don' t want to a small government to step aside and let big corporations take advantage of citizens. The ideal is to keep the balance of power with the people.

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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 09:22
We have medicaid. Which is only for people with low incomes that can' t afford it. Everyone else either gets health insurance from their employment or chooses it themselves.
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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 09:25

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We have medicaid. Which is only for people with low incomes that can' t afford it. Everyone else either gets health insurance from their employment or chooses it themselves.


And the health insurance companies are garbage.

It basically covers shit I can already afford without healthcare. I don' t need healthcare to cover $20 worth of antibiotics, I need it to cover $500,000 surgeries, which it doesn' t.

That shit should be ***ing illegal, they need to be FORCED to pay atleast 90% of expenses for everything, not just for a $20 bottle of generic pills.
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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 09:36
It' s extortion. Health care is an essential service period. Imagine if your house was on fire and you had to hand the fire department 100,000$ before they put it out and try to rescue peope trapped inside.

Drug companies in the US are making Billions on medicine. No one should make that much profit off of medication. Even if you make the argument against subsidising the drugs with tax dollars, you should at least put controls on the people selling them so they don' t make a 1700% markup.
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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 09:56


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God save America.


He' s not right. You want to know why I vote Republican? Because when broken down to a basic level Republicans are for smaller government and don' t expect the government to coddle people.


If you think Republicans represent traditional conservatism you' re living in a ***ing dream world. They pissed away hundreds of billions in an illegal war. They spend more than the democrates would have except the spending didn' t benefit Americans. Bush basically stole money from social security to kill half a million Iraqis for no reason at all. The current republican party needs to be lynched.

My philosophy is that there is no supreme system. Every country in every year is different, and thus demands different strategies for optimal success. In most cases we need to change governments just to fix the *** ups from the last guys.

America is the richest country in the world. It' s pretty disgusting that they don' t have basic things like health care. Americans have ***ed themselves.

It' s about the balance of power. I don' t like a big government making useless laws and effectively taking a giant shit on our freedom but at the same time I don' t want to a small government to step aside and let big corporations take advantage of citizens. The ideal is to keep the balance of power with the people.



I should really rephrase what I said, I shouldn' t have said " vote" Republican since I' ve never voted even though I was a registered voter since before the last election. I should have said I am a Republican.

To be honest a lot of what you said is very correct. The current Republicans in power aren' t exactly following real conservative values which is upsetting. Those are people though, not the ideals of conservatism. Politics and politicians as a whole are corrupt. All the different parties are f*cked up.

I' m a conservative republican but I do agree with some liberal views. That is why the balance of power and the democratic election system is great. When sh*t gets fucked up you can replace who' s running the country in four years.

No matter who gets elected things get f*cked up. People will bitch and complain. It' s inevitable. The only thing you can do is vote for the person that best depicts your values (even though once they are elected they normally turn out being completely different then what they ran as) and hope for the best. I probably won' t vote (again) this election and if I do it will be a write in because in my eyes both candidates are garbage.

I' ve been raised a conservative. I' ve seen the ideals work first hand. Of course it was on a small scale since it was my family and like anything else once taken to a large scale things get messed up along the way. Still, ideally I think people should work hard and be rewarded for it. All I can do is try to vote for somebody that feels the same way and try to make it happen.
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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 10:30

Youre a stupid ***, emofag. The more power you give to a government the worse. I would rather pay a private corporation than have to pay for mediocre healthcare from the government for myself and the unemployed whore down the street with 5 kids. Look at Canada. If they need a specialist they come to America for it. The only good thing about national healthcare is it makes routine doctor visits possible for poor people. But in the end, who cares about them anyway? I dont want to live in a communist country where we' re forced to support people who wont support themselves.


You are very ignorant. Which wouldn' t be such a problem if you were blissful instead of angry and hostile.

It appears your education system has failed you. Who do you blame for that one?

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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 11:03
Hey Dag, ...where ya been?

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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 11:21


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We have medicaid. Which is only for people with low incomes that can' t afford it. Everyone else either gets health insurance from their employment or chooses it themselves.


And the health insurance companies are garbage.

It basically covers shit I can already afford without healthcare. I don' t need healthcare to cover $20 worth of antibiotics, I need it to cover $500,000 surgeries, which it doesn' t.

That shit should be ***ing illegal, they need to be FORCED to pay atleast 90% of expenses for everything, not just for a $20 bottle of generic pills.


You can get that insurance, it costs more. Health insurance is a big scam.
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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 11:56

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You can get that insurance, it costs more. Health insurance is a big scam.


I know, I had a Appendicectomy and was billed $32,000. I had to pay like $800 out of that, and this is considered one of the cheapest surgeries. They stick two needles into you, suck your apendix out, and it takes like 45 minutes.

Apparently in europe the hospital' s cost with equipment and labor is like $2,000 to perform the surgery, so they are making a nice profit here. It probably is alot easier to have free healthcare when the hospitals aren' t out to make a 1500% profit. Insurance companies are only part of the problem.

I like how hospitals say they lose billions because of having to operate on uninsured people, what they mean is they lost billions in POTENTIAL PROFIT, net loss isn' t even in the millions.
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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 12:45

The USA is the only western first world nation that doesn' t have national healthcare. It' s pathetic. And the reason is because it' s big business for pharmaceutical companies. If you think otherwise then you' re fucking clown.


Well said very well said.
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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 15:20

VX, while I see how that sounds ideal and all in terms of health care I have to ask how the tax brackets work in your country. Here in the US the more you make the larger percentage of your salary is taxed. I see that as being quite unfair. The reasoning behind it is apparently the more money you make the less you really need. How is it the government' s right to decide that? As you make more money and rise the in the class standings you are basically being punished for it by having to pay more and more. It' s their money, they earned it, and I don' t see why the government is taking that from them. I' m all for the idea of a flat tax. I think everyone should have a fixed percentage of their income taxed, not this varied crap we have.


Taxes here are insane, we are one of the top taxed countries in the world. It also changes here, if you make a decent amount of money you pay 70% of your last made dollars.

The lowest tax is around 48%


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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 17:53


ORIGINAL: Nitro



ORIGINAL: Torr

On the healtcare issue, I think what dan was trying to say is that we have some of the best doctors because they get paid a lot to become really good and if we have a national healthcare that pays more basic rates and doctors have less control over how much they make they might not be inclined to do what they do so well. Now I am not saying that all doctors are this self serving and that they won' t getting paid very much, but as an overall the medical field is very capitalist in america and so taking the capitalistness(probably not a word) out of may hurt it.


Rubbish. You either do your job properly or you find yourself without it.

The way it' s set up right now - only the people with money are getting the best healthcare. Everybody should be getting the same level of treatment.

We have had free healthcare - paid for through taxes for 60 years. It covers everything from dentistry to long-term chronic illnesses. Treatment is free, save for small charges for prescriptions if you' re gainfully employed. If you' re unemployed, elderly, a child or on a low income then prescriptions are free too.

The USA is the only western first world nation that doesn' t have national healthcare. It' s pathetic. And the reason is because it' s big business for pharmaceutical companies. If you think otherwise then you' re fucking clown.


Nitro it' s all well and good having the NHS however it is run like a corporation and mismanaged like some third world government, too much red tape before anything can be done, waiting lists are far to long for operations (mainly due to the amount of free loading immigrants and terrorists who think they are owed something by coming to the UK.) The NHS will be a thing of the past in the next 10 or 20 years with more and more people willing and wanting to pay for treatment mainly because it is quicker and there is less risk of infection because of the low intelligent muppets they employ to clean the hospitals cannot do the job properly. To prove the point my Mother needed a knee replacement last year (aged 68). the NHS wanted her to wait 18 months, I added her to my private healthcare scheme and after waiting 2 weeks to see the consultant (becauase he was on holiday) 4 weeks later she was having the op and was being treated like a Queen. My Mother worked in the NHS for 18 years and was shocked that it would take so long.

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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 18:30
Granted, ...it' s certainly not perfect, but there' s no viable alternative. If you have the money then go private, but what about the people who don' t have the money? The amounts charged in the US are extortionate and in many cases, if you don' t have insurance you' re screwed. The simple fact of the matter is that every nation should have free health care for all. There will always be private firms to turn to if you have the reddies.

Wasn' t there a documentary (by Torr' s long lost twin) about the health care system in the states? If i remember correctly, there was a guy who didn' t have health insurance and managed to cut off 2 fingers in some freak accident... but couldn' t afford to have them both re-attached and so had to choose the cheapest, which was still several thousand dollars.

I don' t understand how any doctor/surgeon could work like that - the only reason not to re-attach both fingers, it being physically possible, because the guy couldn' t afford it? GTFO!!!

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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 18:44

I don' t understand how any doctor/surgeon could work like that - the only reason not to re-attach both fingers, it being physically possible, because the guy couldn' t afford it? GTFO!!!


So, if a person needs cancer treatment in the US, and has no insurance/money, the doctors just go " too bad" and let them go off and die?

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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 19:31


ORIGINAL: Nitro

Granted, ...it' s certainly not perfect, but there' s no viable alternative. If you have the money then go private, but what about the people who don' t have the money? The amounts charged in the US are extortionate and in many cases, if you don' t have insurance you' re screwed. The simple fact of the matter is that every nation should have free health care for all. There will always be private firms to turn to if you have the reddies.

Wasn' t there a documentary (by Torr' s long lost twin) about the health care system in the states? If i remember correctly, there was a guy who didn' t have health insurance and managed to cut off 2 fingers in some freak accident... but couldn' t afford to have them both re-attached and so had to choose the cheapest, which was still several thousand dollars.

I don' t understand how any doctor/surgeon could work like that - the only reason not to re-attach both fingers, it being physically possible, because the guy couldn' t afford it? GTFO!!!


It does make a mockery of the hypocratic oath that medical professionals are supposed to take and uphold.

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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 19:36
Yep.

And chemotherapy costs between $30,000 and $60,000 (?) a treatment. I' m not sure exactly what a " treatment" is, ...whether it' s per course or per patient, but if you don' t have insurance you' re either going without or you' re going to be billed for the costs.

Claiming bankruptcy when the hospital takes you to court for not paying is the only route for a lot of people, and there are what 50 million people in America without health insurance?

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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 20:24
With the way the population is supposed to increase, there is going to be some very serious repercussions regarding healthcare in the next 40 or so years....I' ll be ok though, by then I will be 6 feet under in a nice oak casket.....it pays to be an old fart sometimes...lol

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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 20:51

So, if a person needs cancer treatment in the US, and has no insurance/money, the doctors just go " too bad" and let them go off and die?


Yep You got this is exactly how things are in America. Even if you have insurance most companies want cover such a treatment. America The Big Ass Rip Off.

Yeah America is one of the riches companies ( Yes I mean Company not Country ) it didn' t cost anything for them to build it. Salvery was so wrong and to this day my black people don' t get a thank you or apology hell we don' t even get a slap on the ass . More like spit in the face if you ask me. This is just what I think.

Robbing a bank is so justified in America I for one support bank robbing the government. You guys don' t know how bad I hate this Company. ( Yes I mean Company not Country )
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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 21:02


ORIGINAL: mikayd2

Salvery was so wrong and to this day my black people don' t get a thank you or apology hell we don' t even get a slap on the ass .


Wut?


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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 21:29
I just saying that it was wrong and it just goes over looked like he never happened.
They say racism has past but I don' t think so.

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RE: Silly Nub-cake bought a PS Triple - Jun 18, 2008 21:42


ORIGINAL: mikayd2


So, if a person needs cancer treatment in the US, and has no insurance/money, the doctors just go " too bad" and let them go off and die?


Yep You got this is exactly how things are in America. Even if you have insurance most companies want cover such a treatment. America The Big Ass Rip Off.

Yeah America is one of the riches companies ( Yes I mean Company not Country ) it didn' t cost anything for them to build it. Salvery was so wrong and to this day my black people don' t get a thank you or apology hell we don' t even get a slap on the ass . More like spit in the face if you ask me. This is just what I think.

Robbing a bank is so justified in America I for one support bank robbing the government. You guys don' t know how bad I hate this Company. ( Yes I mean Company not Country )



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