Usa Thread

[Coss]

To put a few thoughts to pixel over a G&T.

American Health care has at it's core a private profit motive.

We like to think that Government should bill the tax take, for things it does (military, law making, justice system etc) and only derive enough profit, to cover maintenance and upgrades, paint the court house, that sort of thing.

The health system (broadly) in  NZ and Australia, is funded, more or less, to take care of the health of the people. There is private health insurance, but that's all about queue jumping and better rooms. It's the same doctors either way.

We know a bit about introducing the private profit motive to a government function. I was 17 when it happened to electricity in NZ. Prior to 1977-ish the NZ electricity system was a national grid and the government sent you a bill. The Boss of all of this was a grey civil servant in a grey office  with a grey formica desk in the capital.

You see rain is free and 90%+ of our electricity is hydro. Then they sold it all off and now there are competing corporations, who charge the earth and then some for the electricity. I wish I'd had a few million back then I would have been in on the ground floor.

 

 

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Once you privatize any government service it becomes bottom line based......."we need to think of the shareholder's" mantra comes to mind.

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2021 v 2025

[Coss]

Well as you've opened the comparison.

I want to ask little Donnie:

"As the system is so corrupt and the deep state have stolen the election, with the obvious outcome that they've chosen you, Little Donnie as the President, does this define Donald J.Trump, as an integral part of the corrupt, deep state, swamp, who are killing the USA?"

Coss comment: "why yes it does".

[buffalo_bill]

Gentlemen,

there have been glorious times on this fine board when many a people posted  truely unforgettable pieces. Does anybody of you remember RICSCURR´s man from Greenland? It might be of unexpected actuality as President Orange does not exclude to send the military over there as it looks.

Quote Ricscurr meeting lady bah:

" Whereyoufrom ?

" I am from Greenland "

" Oh Greenland man very good....Greenland! Where Greenland, i no hear before.

Gentlemen, I wish to thank the Lord for these gems, I fortunately hardcopied some of them, another one poster My Cow Jai:

 "Bar girl wurking tree day met man tree munt ago ". Posted 2002/06/12.

Another one " here is what my wedding in buriram was like; posted by a Norwegian bloke on 10/09/2002.

These were the great times, anything following called "Social Media" appear to be just pure crap.

Sorry to bring this up once again.

 

 

[Mekong]

13 hours ago, buffalo_bill said:

Whereyoufrom ?

" I am from Greenland "

" Oh Greenland man very good....Greenland! Where Greenland, i no hear before.

It was something like

Ger Ger Ger Greenland, where Greenlamd?

Northern Europe 

What yo do Greenland?

I catch Fish

You buy me drinky?

I told you, I catch Fish, no fucking money in catch fish

 

That is the reason why Rick chose Greenland and Fish, he was a right tight arse in real life. 

One that he wrote for our MSN group was how he saved money in Chiang Mai by sleeping in the room of three ladyboys, woke up with a raging thirst and drank the Red Fanta put out at the Spirit house and the subsequent events.

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Mate after his first trip to Pattaya told me how two Thai girls asked him if he wanted to sleep with them. They said that it would be like winning the lottery. To his horror they were right. There were six matching balls.................. 😳

[buffalo_bill]

Sometimes I wonder what might have happend to all these people, it was now more than 20 years ago. The Norwegian guy´s Marriage in Buriram has been so hilarious, I read it maybe 100 times. Guy who thought sexy bargirl loved him.

[Mekong]

Last time I saw Rico and a few other people from that old forum was summer of 2002 when we all met up in Pattaya for a party week , so coming up to 23 years now 

[buffalo_bill]

Biden in Carter eulogy: There is an obligation to stand up to abuse of power 

Hopefully the US citizens were listening , but :

Which might include refraining from pardoning family members