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Post by agito on Oct 24, 2008 13:17:59 GMT -6
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Post by agito on Oct 24, 2008 13:18:37 GMT -6
oh- ... nsfw .... although i think a majority of us on this board are unemployed
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Oct 28, 2008 9:43:11 GMT -6
oh- ... nsfw .... although i think a majority of us on this board are unemployed It would be interesting to find out how many on this board are unemployed. I'm functionally unemployed myself. Or maybe I should say I'm "financially" unemployed. I've been working at a job now almost 4 months and haven't been paid yet. That's because I'm waiting for a Medicare number, so that I can bill for care provided. A lot of physicians nationwide are having similar problems getting paid, as a new company has taken over Medicare. (You gotta love privatization.) If you're on Medicare, don't be surprised if you have trouble getting in to see a doctor. Your doctor may not be getting paid. As a result, your doctor may have been forced to reduce his hours, or even close his practice altogether. It's hard to pay office rent and staff if you're gross revenue is $0.00.
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Post by redwolf on Oct 28, 2008 22:02:02 GMT -6
Thank you, Republicans, for another disastrous idea. Here is a good book on how privatized our government has become: The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule by Thomas Frank "In his previous book, Thomas Frank explained why working America votes for politicians who reserve their favors for the rich. Now, in The Wrecking Crew, Frank examines the blundering and corrupt Washington those politicians have given us.
Casting back to the early days of the conservative revolution, Frank describes the rise of a ruling coalition dedicated to dismantling government. But rather than cutting down the big government they claim to hate, conservatives have simply sold it off, deregulating some industries, defunding others, but always turning public policy into a private-sector bidding war. Washington itself has been remade into a golden landscape of super-wealthy suburbs and gleaming lobbyist headquarters—the wages of government-by-entrepreneurship practiced so outrageously by figures such as Jack Abramoff.
It is no coincidence, Frank argues, that the same politicians who guffaw at the idea of effective government have installed a regime in which incompetence is the rule. Nor will the country easily shake off the consequences of deliberate misgovernment through the usual election remedies. Obsessed with achieving a lasting victory, conservatives have taken pains to enshrine the free market as the permanent creed of state.
Stamped with Thomas Frank’s audacity, analytic brilliance, and wit, The Wrecking Crew is his most revelatory work yet—and his most important."www.amazon.com/Wrecking-Crew-How-Conservatives-Rule/dp/0805079882/ref=pd_sim_b_6
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