joe3pack Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 Dmitry Orlov has a new post in his blog. He outlines Doc's "we are totally hose this time" theory. http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/ One final transportation idea: start breeding donkeys. Horses are finicky and expensive, but donkeys can be very cost-effective and make good pack animals. My grandfather had a donkey while he was living in Tashkent in Central Asia during World War II. There was nothing much for the donkey to eat, but, as a member of the Communist Party, my grandfather had a subscription to Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, and so that?s what the donkey ate. Apparently, donkeys can digest any kind of cellulose, even when it?s loaded with communist propaganda. If I had a donkey, I would feed it the Wall Street Journal. beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phatbubble Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 Wow - all that was missing from the Sooper Sunday Stool Battle Royale was Rowdy Roddy Piper....and maybe Paul "Mr Wonderful" Orndorff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slappy Posted February 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 and apparently, one U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK), a practicing physician, didn't like what he was seeing in that stimulus bill just passed. $1.1 billion for comparative effectiveness research “Trusting the government to ration care will take away choices and life-saving treatments from sick patients and deny families more time with their loved ones. Doctors and patients should be making decisions based on individual patient conditions and needs. Allowing government to make these decisions would set us on a dangerous path. The unelected staff and career politicians who are negotiating these details have almost zero real world experience in the health care sector. Congress should confess its limited capabilities in this area and debate this issue in the open, not rush through massive policy changes in secret,” Dr. Coburn said." Our district just sent a new Congressman to DC that has 26-years of experience as a Rehab Hospital Services Manager. Hope it does us some good. Meet Glenn Thompson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrStool Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 The more I see of Geithner, the more he seems to have this permanent "OMG, I know I'm lying through my teeth and have I just been found out?" look about him. Sort of like the Eagle Scout that roughs up Cubbies for their candy at the Jubilee when the Scout Masters are looking the other way. Or is it just me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T_Slim Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 Hey, Doc Just wanted to take some time and thank you again for staying ahead of the herd. Lotta garbage on the internet so it's good have an anal cyst around like you that presents the cold hard facts. Thanks again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrStool Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 Many tanks Slim. I try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dharmaeye Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 I have a union "welfare benefit" health plan administered by New England Electrical Workers Benefits Fund and from what I can understand is regulated by an ERISA of the Dept. of Labor. A person in that plan essentially becomes liable for the costs when an accident or injury occurs. Get into a car accident and you be required to sign a lien so they can recover the costs. It's almost guaranteeing you will need to file suit or else. Otherwise, the plan has worked as long as it has the funds. The costs for this benefit must be high. The bills they've paid recently are downright scary. As a matter of fact a recent hospital visit wasn't sent to the benefits fund and they treated a $900 bill as though I had no coverage. The bill actually gave a discount to $650. They were instructed to submit to my heath plan and the plan negotiated a payment of approx. $400. In essence, they gave a health plan a better price than if I would have walked off the street with cash and no insurance. In that case, I consider this to be one of those situations where you could have been: UNINSURED & SCREWED paying at a higher price. This "paying at a higher price" seems to apply to all health care plans. My PPO Regence usually gets a close to 50% discount to what is charged. Premera was the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrStool Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 http://wallstreetexaminer.com/2009/02/16/b...sional-edition/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubbadropping Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 Doc is there anyway to access your pro pdfs without Acrobat? A way to backdoor the thing? thanks,buddha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrStool Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 Doc is there anyway to access your pro pdfs without Acrobat? A way to backdoor the thing? thanks,buddha I use foxit reader. Very light, very fast, and free. http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php I'm sure there are others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drwells Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 Hey, Doc Just wanted to take some time and thank you again for staying ahead of the herd. Lotta garbage on the internet so it's good have an anal cyst around like you that presents the cold hard facts. Thanks again! Agreed. If I'd been watching the liquidity chart in November 2007 I might have saved my mom's retirement (what there was of it). If and when I finally cash out of the Matrix, it'll be because of what I've learned here and in the Pro edition in the last month or so. Tanks Doc! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrStool Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 I'm gonna git a swelt haid! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubbadropping Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 Thanks Doc, Foxit works like a charm and your cycles on Gold are excellent and thorough as expected. We have much to be grateful for. Just imagine had Greenspan and his freakish bride spawned an alien offspring, how much uglier and more in danger the world would be. Geithner just looks like the kid in the middle of 5th grade English who farts and then blames it on the poor black girl sitting behind him. She gets both the smoke and the mirrors. best,buddha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sea urchin Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 Why? Because it's cost-effective, and second because it's fair. I was born in Japan when it was still affected by the WWII. I went to an obligatory elementary and junior-high schools and an elective high school before college. Each year during those tender years, I had annual health examination (preventive medicine) and was taken to doctor when I was sick or injured. College was the first that didn?t provide an annual health exam. I grew to a healthy young adult by that time and don?t recall an occasion that required medical attention during college there. I have two brothers. They also received annual health examination just like me. They were taken to a family doctor whenever necessary and went through a surgery (one of my brothers. My mother had no hesitation to take us to our family doctor because of the national healthcare system. Were there no national health insurance system, it might have been hard for my parents to take us to proper medical cares when necessary. I just remember that I went to a specialist twice a week after school for one year or so due to chronic paranasal sinusitis. I am very appreciative that it was taken care of when I was a 5th grader because I occasionally notice adults with similar symptoms today. Thanks partly to the national health insurance system, all of us were healthy enough to undergo 4-year college education and some are more. We are socially productive and contributing to a society, while being able to take care of ourselves economically. I think that it costs way more to have sickly grown-up population who need frequent medical attention or people dying before productive adult. Japan may be a special case because it's not just the national insurance system. It's also school system that produced (produces?) reasonably educated young adults who know that food helps build healthy body (known as 6 food groups and taught to take them everyday once at an elementary level and then a junior-high level). I am aware that some people are not as physically lucky as we are. I can easily imagine I could have not been that way by sheer luck (Thank you to my mother, father and grandparents and the timings that each was born into! If you were born into a different circumstance, genes that have not expressed can be expressed since each person has at least several negative-effect genes.) Providing health care to all people living in Japan, Japan?s national insurance system helps ?keeping the floor? to people's health. Thus considering the total health cost of Japan that can incur, the national health system is cost effective. The us is huge and may be difficult to have one provider but this is a rather easy problem to solve. Some may argue that a national healthcare system (Americans call "socialized medicine," I call social investment) may be necessary when a nation is economically disadvantageous. Maybe, but look at us now under economic problems in the middle of the burst of the US RE bubble, which is considered the epicenter of global re(de)pressions outside the US. I am glad that I am healthy, thanks to timely health cares I received and will do when necessary. Some other might say, "Look at advanced aged people in Japan!" I say that Japan went through a similar crisis called "baby boomers" successfully, of course with some problems (like city-concentrated populations). So I am confident that it will go through "Silver Crisis" to challenge another problem unknown to us today. As I mentioned here before that silver population has been creating new areas of researches and rapidly growing service industries in Japan: care providers; 3 times a day ready to eat food delivery; food material purchase and delivery services, all kinds of prepared food stores (which now occupy half of the food section of each department store in Tokyo and each train station has its cluster of prepared food stores to take home - I highly recommend to drop by B1 and B2 floors of a department store in Shinjuku, Ikebukuto, Shibuya or anywhere where a department store exists, which will be eye-opening experience to American city-dwellers even like SF); and special transportation for those elder people using wheel chairs. Because of the lack of care providers, Japan now begin to welcome foreign care providers (they need to take care providing license within 3 years after arriving in Japan). I also mentioned about people who recently lost jobs and places to live due to Japanese car-industry problems. Now, unemployment offices started to introduce care-providing job trainings to those people who are willing to try new job areas. Restaurants and apparel stores were new things when for the first time introduced to society... around an industrial revolution era. Before that, food was prepared home and clothes were made and washed by women folks in a family. Soaps were made at home where pigs and chickens slept right next adults and kids inside the house (or a shackle). Just like food services and clothing were span out, elderly care provided in family until recently is to be span out to form a new industry. It?s a legit industry. Problems are really business opportunities, aren't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fxfox Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 Geithner just looks like the kid in the middle of 5th grade English who farts and then blames it on the poor black girl sitting behind him. :lol: ... thats why i love that site, gawd dammit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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