Re: Issues

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Gas prices may not be rising in proportion to crude oil prices, but they sure as heck are higher. The lowest price I can find around here is $2.35/gal, and $2.45 is more typical. I've seen stations (albeit near the airport) with prices as high as $2.79.

If were gonna have a war for oil, you'd thing that we'd at least get the oil part. Talk about incompetence.


Posted by: LarryB | Link to this comment | 10-16-04 2:51 PM
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Draft - We have troops not fighting anything in Japan, Germany, Italy and a half dozen other places and the military doesn't want people who don't want to be there. The only people voting in favor of it are the dems. Plus Kerry is the only one talking about adding two divisions to the military.

Gas Prices - So if Americans want cheaper oil, they would be for wars in the mid-east, right? I can't follow the argument on this, how it supports the dems or how the dems would bring down oil prices.

Flu Shots - Americans first taste of socialized medicine. Mandaded prices by the government and limited profit and PRESTO, no companies want to make the stuff.


Posted by: | Link to this comment | 10-18-04 9:48 PM
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I can see why Mr Anonymous chose to post that way.

"Draft - We have troops not fighting anything in Japan, Germany, Italy and a half dozen other places and the military doesn't want people who don't want to be there. The only people voting in favor of it are the dems. Plus Kerry is the only one talking about adding two divisions to the military."

Rummies strategy of Light commando operations doesn't work. See Iraq. I suppose you make the point that Bush is too stupid to see this, but the rest of us figure that whoever is President will eventially have to respond to reality. We don't have enough 'spare' troops around the world to get the job done.

"Flu Shots - Americans first taste of socialized medicine. Mandaded prices by the government and limited profit and PRESTO, no companies want to make the stuff."

Yeah, expect the price was UP this year, the US government subsidized the manufacturing by guaranteeing to buy the unsold doses, and those terrible socialist countries such as Sweden, Denmark, and the UK don't have this problem.

So socialized medicine was our problem, except it wasn't socialized, and the countries which have socialized medicine didn't have the problem.

I think that, like Bush, you've got a limited number of idealized fixes that you will apply to any problem, even when the fixes are incorrect. Then you'll stubbornly stick to your ideas and apply them even further when they don't work.


Posted by: Tripp | Link to this comment | 10-19-04 10:28 AM
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