Is the nation heading in the wrong direction?

Well, Insurance rates go up because insurance companies are in the business of making money. The way they make money is having more money come in than goes out. If more lawsuits are making insurance companies pay more out, then they need to raise their rates to cover the added expense.

I believe you can blame lawyers for just about each one of those. Not Bush.

McGentrix wrote:

I believe you can blame lawyers for just about each one of those. Not Bush.

oh, boy...talk about exceedingly, umm, potent, wowness...

now it's the lawyers. dan quayle started that rip back in the eighties. lawyers didn't seem so bad to republicans when they took the florida recount to court.

or is just "trahl lawyurs" that are bad. corporate lawyers o.k.? howabout probate lawyers? just a little o.k. or a lot bad?

snore...

I don't recall the tax cuts effecting property taxes which pay for schools.

Health care premiums go up because of malpractice insurance rates skyrocketing due to doctors being sued.

Prescription costs go up for the same reason.

FreeDuck wrote:

Baldimo wrote:

The military should be allowed to recruit the best and the brightest if they want to join. Remember we have an all-voluntary military, and no one is forced to join..

Do you honestly believe they would request records so that they can recruit the smartest kids? Isn't it more likely that they are presenting themselves as a viable option to those who probably have no other options?

their major sales pitch.......best and brightest...that's bullshit.....the miltary is good old boy network legacy at the top of the ranks...just like big business and politics.....what the military needs first and foremost is cannon fodder...well trained perhaps, but cannon fodder none the less....so those who are the easiest to lead , mislead, and train to follow orders blindly are the chief target for recruitment........and who are those people? Those with little or no other good options......

actually I never met more complete idiots then when I was in combat although I have to admit the really major screw-ups were the officers. FUBAR was SOP.

i find it difficult to understand why most of the people that i talk to who are pro iraq war are also so down on paying the taxes to pay for it.

even when god is supposed to be on our side.

"in god we trust. all others cash only" ???

"In God we trust, all others pay cash" A book by Jean Shepherd, a storytelling genius.

Bi-Polar Bear wrote:

FreeDuck wrote:

Baldimo wrote:

The military should be allowed to recruit the best and the brightest if they want to join. Remember we have an all-voluntary military, and no one is forced to join..

Do you honestly believe they would request records so that they can recruit the smartest kids? Isn't it more likely that they are presenting themselves as a viable option to those who probably have no other options?

their major sales pitch.......best and brightest...that's bullshit.....the miltary is good old boy network legacy at the top of the ranks...just like big business and politics.....what the military needs first and foremost is cannon fodder...well trained perhaps, but cannon fodder none the less....so those who are the easiest to lead , mislead, and train to follow orders blindly are the chief target for recruitment........and who are those people? Those with little or no other good options......

I'm going to be nice about this because you just insulted the people who protect your rights to be stupid. Have you ever served in the military? If you had you wouldn't be talking this way. A majority of the MOS's in the Army are support jobs, not combat positions. There are only about 12 MOS's that are combat related. It is in the combat fields that you find most of your brightest people. You can't be dumb as a rock and have such a job. You also have to test to get in and have a certain qualifying score to get certain types of MOS's. I knew more idiots in civilian life then I did in the military.

Baldimo wrote:

Bi-Polar Bear wrote:

FreeDuck wrote:

Baldimo wrote:

The military should be allowed to recruit the best and the brightest if they want to join. Remember we have an all-voluntary military, and no one is forced to join..

Do you honestly believe they would request records so that they can recruit the smartest kids? Isn't it more likely that they are presenting themselves as a viable option to those who probably have no other options?

their major sales pitch.......best and brightest...that's bullshit.....the miltary is good old boy network legacy at the top of the ranks...just like big business and politics.....what the military needs first and foremost is cannon fodder...well trained perhaps, but cannon fodder none the less....so those who are the easiest to lead , mislead, and train to follow orders blindly are the chief target for recruitment........and who are those people? Those with little or no other good options......

I'm going to be nice about this because you just insulted the people who protect your rights to be stupid. Have you ever served in the military? If you had you wouldn't be talking this way. A majority of the MOS's in the Army are support jobs, not combat positions. There are only about 12 MOS's that are combat related. It is in the combat fields that you find most of your brightest people. You can't be dumb as a rock and have such a job. You also have to test to get in and have a certain qualifying score to get certain types of MOS's. I knew more idiots in civilian life then I did in the military.

baldimo are you calling me stupid?