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YOU'RE DRAGGING AMERICA DOWN!!! OUR CORPORATE SPONSORS ARE LEAVING LIKE FLIES!! REPENT!!!

I'm reserving judgment on this till Jay_B has an opportunity to defend it.

"Good artists borrow, great artists steal."

We must isolate the killer gene in this whale in order to build the Orca Army this country needs to dominate the 21st century battlespace.

Of course, not having built these in the first place would've been tantamount to Stalinist totalitarianism...

The recidivism in this whale is the inevitable result of a combination of Canadian subsidies, misunderstanding of "moral hazard" and a sense of entitlement.

Shamu is now virtually unemployable.

"To save the working man you got to put him out to pasture" --Dead Kennedys

Well no, they might have to join the line instead of pushing to the front. That's simply Un-American.

As if having health insurance in America is any guarantee that they'd pay up and you still wouldn't go shit-ass broke when something did happen to you!

Well-off americans don't go to Canada for treatment. I guess socializing their medical system has a lowering effect on quality at the higher levels of treatment in the aggregate. No surprises there. Socialism is great at lowering the bar. Even if what you you said was true (which it isn't), would maintaining a platinum-plated, elite-only boutique system of health care be worth it if it meant large numbers would go without entirely? Curious vision of freedom you have there.

In some ways, Japan is just America cranked up to 11.

This is the Cato Institute's narrative for the 21st century? "How to maintain a near-starvation labor force and lower expectations among the citizens for much else". Brave New World meets THX-1138. Thanks for the sneak-peek. Good luck maintaining a functioning democratic republic. I'm actually pretty surprised at the extent to which any pretext that what you're advocating for is anything less than the classic "race to the bottom". Desperation would breed a certain candor, I guess, and many had thought that the crisis of neoliberalism would lead to cries of "we didn't go far enough" and calls for more of the same medicine. Though I'd have thought you'd have tried to construct a more compelling facade, your pro-labor/pro-environment lasershow is coming along.

I wouldn't really care if people were paid five dollars an hour if they had guaranteed high quality health care, free quality education and child care, adequate housing and transport and the other things necessary to live as a really free human being with a certain control over one's life. As it stands now, you know, in the real world, getting paid five dollars an hour looks a lot like slavery. Maybe some privileged white person should do a little 21st century "Black Like Me" study of what life is like on 5 bucks an hour for 20 years and see how their kids turn out.

I predict a Mariners pennant in 2010.

Yes. And you're right about Congress, too. All these people had access to the same information as the broad spectrum of aid workers, academics, journalists, intelligence workers and the rest that had been calling bullshit on each and every plank of the Bush Administration's march to Iraq since the rumor or an invasion first surfaced. Those in the State as well as their apologists have no excuse whatsoever in denying that the contrary evidence and information was fully available (and plentiful), only that they were wrong in either denying its existence and/or discrediting the sources ("left wing anti'mericans) or they were just willing sheep lulled by the narrative of American Empire they were all to eager to hear.

Huh? Wait sorry, I didn't get the decoder rings the Insurance and Pharma reps were passing out at the Tea Party. Why is our health care system so fucked up, again?

WHATEVER YOU DECIDE TO DO, WE'RE ALL BEHIND YOU 100%!!!

I thought it went without saying that all American Presidents were mass-murderers.

We have the best treatments money can afford.

You're drunk!

Yeah, more disaggregated bullshit lacking any historical context as to how households have changed over the last fifty years and the increased costs for those households on things like, oh you know, health care. What a laugh. If you weren't so busy cherry picking and digging up obscure "news of the weird" nonsense like "Canadian Politician Goes To America For Operation" to uphold your failed theories while shit falls apart, you might actually help clean up the mess you've been cheerleading for since you started imitating Michael J Fox's character on Family Ties when you were 8 years old.

Anyway, if the state government doesn't want to pay its workers it should just move.