<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 Eugen Leitl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eugen@leitl.org" target="_blank">eugen@leitl.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">
> It's stupid to smoke around an open gasoline tank. Even if you know it's going to blow anyway, at some point.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, it's one thing to know you're going to die, it's another to know you're going to die on Thursday. <br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><div class="h5">> The US health costs are now some 18% of GDP, while many go uninsured.<br>
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This is ridiculously bad, and obviously unsustainable.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes. <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
> It is one of the most inefficient health systems in the world<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No not one of the most, it is THE most inefficient health system in the world.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
> how about the bloody wars and domestic "security" and surveillance racket? And interest on debt? The prison industry, the result of war on some drugs? The education bubble? Sinking your money into domestic fossil hole in the ground instead<br>
of renewable? <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Those are all serious long term problems, but....<br><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">
> This is what you should be up in the arms again.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I guess, it's just that right at this minute my long range planing and concerns don't extend much beyond Thursday. <br></div>
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> Don't buy into staged fights between two wings of the same party.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I hope it's a stage fight because that would imply a script exists, but I think its like a toddler playing with a loaded automatic pistol and the Republicans don't know what they're doing or how dangerous it is. <br>
<br></div><div> John K Clark <br></div><div><br> <br></div></div></div></div>