You may look at the data, but how on earth can anyone who is not a scientist hope to interpret all its complexities? I suspect a proper scientist would laugh at attempts by any of us to do so.Quote:
Originally Posted by chuck34
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You may look at the data, but how on earth can anyone who is not a scientist hope to interpret all its complexities? I suspect a proper scientist would laugh at attempts by any of us to do so.Quote:
Originally Posted by chuck34
Over here I'm conservative :) , that's how different our worlds are. But in any case, I do understand that the US being such a huge country, the challenges are enormous in everything. IMO you're doing a "pretty" good job compared to, let's say our neighbour, a certain "bear".Quote:
Originally Posted by anthonyvop
absolutely RIGHTQuote:
Originally Posted by chuck34
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdHjhJTf6RE
:dozey:
the British Rail thing is not a good example - if it costs more now (which would be difficult to prove exactly what was spent in the BR days) is arguably because of years of under investment left us with an infrastructure that could not cope and we are now paying the price for having to renew and remodel massive amounts of railway as a result. the layout of the infrastructure is largely governed by the historical routes that came of the early rail industry and as such are often not suitable for long distance fast lines such are the "pinch" points in and around many intersection areas (see Rugby, Reading and many others)
we are often given the French and German rail systems to compare with, but these are largely new since WW2 and as such were laid to provide a more suitable modern service that the British Network struggles to do due to the aged layout of the existing infrastructure.
whilst British Rail has been privatised, for the benefit of the non-Brits its not a one stop privatisation - the Infrastructure is owned and maintained by Network Rail (the successor of Railtrack, which was a listed company that spectacularly collapsed and was partly absorbed by the Public service to become what it is now), a not for Profit private body, part funded by the office of the rail regulator (government).
Network rail let contracts for Renewal and enhancement projects to Private companies (i do work for one of these so please excuse my bias) which has resulted in some vastly more efficient projects, albeit it also could be argued that there is an expense attached to the use of Agency plant and labour, but this is the same as the wider construction industry)
there, IMO, is no way that a nationalised company could run these works successfully, and would have to engage the woder consrtuction and civils industries for actual construction works. after all you don't have a nationilsed body building schools, hospitals etc, why should you building railway?
the licences for the Train operating companies are privately let for fixed periods and i would argue have in some cases been very successful - certainly for the larger routes, some of the smaller/remoter areas perhaps would be dropped if left purely private, so some subsidies have to be offered to ensure a train service is continued.
it might be more expensive to the Taxpayer now (but the taxpayer still owns the infrastructure indirectly) but its a vastly different animal, and i think it would be difficult to actually prove a direct comparison.
i do believe that the state of the railway would be far worse if still entirely state run - i may be wrong, and from within the industry there are a number of people who do hold an opposing view to mine.
The fact is the criminals running this country cannot get the lawyers and tort out of the system so we will fail. you can't cure a cocaine addict by injecting heroin.
Really? usually when words are hard to come by for liberal, euro-weenies they resort to insults.Quote:
Originally Posted by BDunnell
Actually I consider myself very mainstream, middle of the road.
Hey DudNell
Many of us are Middle of the road with capitalist ideas. That is what made us great and that is what we will return to as soon a we can get this misinformed baffoon out of office. You don't need to be right wing to support capitalism you just need to avoid being socialist.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/po...-57862907.html
"There is an element of convenient fantasy as well in Obama's health care statements to date. We are going to save money by spending money. We are going to solve our fiscal problems with a program that will increase the national debt by $1,000,000,000,000 over a decade. We are going to guarantee you can keep your current insurance with a bill that encourages your employer to stop offering it."
Looks like tonight's speech by Obama is gonna make or break this issue.
A wealthy woman was being shown around the hospital. During her tour she passed a room where a male patient was masturbating furiously.
"Oh my GOD!" screamed the woman. "That's disgraceful! Why is he doing that?"
The doctor who was leading the tour calmly explained, "I'm very sorry that you were exposed to that. His name is anthonyvop and he has a serious condition where his testicles rapidly fill with semen, and if he doesn't do that at least five times a day, he'll be in extreme pain and his testicles could easily rupture."
''Oh, well in that case, I guess it's okay" said the woman.
As they passed by the very next room, they saw a male patient lying in bed while a nurse performed oral sex on him.
Again, the woman screamed, "Oh my GOD! Now tell me how that can be justified?"
The doctor spoke very calmly, "Oh, that's fousto... Same illness, better health plan."