This is as bad as Europeans crowing about "free" healthcare or higher education. It's not free. They paid for it with their tax euros.
...and wouldn't it be nice to get something in return for our tax dollars? Other than billion-dollar ballrooms and pointless wars, I mean?
not only do they lobby - more like bribe; they often write the legislation
judging by the number of freedom-loving patriots claiming to be rid of their "rope worms", i'd say so
they would still have had to come to the hospitals for tests & physio. there are plenty who can't leave the house as our affiliates who provide in-home nursing visits and PSWs can attest.
also the number of older people over 60 that are obese has increased dramatically in recent decades from 15% in the 1970s to over 40% today and not by a small amount per person.
that exacerbates dozens of common serious health conditions
What's this criterion does is provide non-falsifiable cover for rejecting anything.
Do they need cover to reject anything? In my projects, I reserve the right to reject anything, for any reason, solely on the grounds that they are my projects, and if someone doesn't like it, they can fork off (their own repository).
living longer doesn't mean living healthier. i do a lot of work in & around hospitals and each year there are many more oldies in wheelchairs or scooters, many with missing limbs, than what i recall from 25 years ago.
"air pollution is worse"
not in Western countries, not even close to what i remember and it was fairly mild compared to many other places where my relatives lived
what about people who got the vaccine while pooping?
What's the incentive to pay the random then, if the attacker had encrypted the data without backing it up and wouldn't be able to decrypt it?
What did colleges get in trouble for?
Which colleges?
"lack of competition, which is inherent to communism"
Lysenko's ideas won out initially and for too long because of support from those with authority.
that happens in any system, ideology or theocracy.
RFKjr didn't become the czar of HHS because of communism or lack of competition
"before that it was pure communism and was responsible for mass starvation with death tolls in the tens of millions"
that was because they followed the pseudoscience of Lysenkoism that was also devastating to the Soviets.
Trofim Lysenko should have been turfed as soon as Stalin was gone but Khrushchev also supported him which puzzled me.
color me surprised. Judge Napolitano had a lot to say back in the day about Kavanaugh's interpretation of the 4th Amendment
the SCO/IBM/Novell case & the tracking done by Pamela Jones of Groklaw was big news on Slashdot for a very long time
Being rich doesn't make you stupid, but being really rich starts to isolate you in a bubble of luxury and sycophants, and eventually you start to forget what the rest of the world is like, and start making decisions based on the unstated assumption that other people don't matter.
The following statement is not true. The previous statement is true.
