The Greatest Minds Can't Determine How To Pay For Healthcare Reform


	The Greatest Minds Can't Determine How To Pay For Healthcare Reform

BartendingBear

7-19-2009 7:14 PM

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DOH!

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7-20-2009 12:52 AM

darkeforce

America always manages to find the money when it's Military Pork that they're paying for.

7-20-2009 8:30 AM

The Infowarrior

"You know all that money we spend on the military ever year - trillions of dollars? Instead, if we use this money to feed and clothe the poor of this world, which it would do many times over, then we can explore space, inner and outer, together, as one race."

- Bill Hicks

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China  $122 billion</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.jmooneyham.com/the-greatest-minds-in-america-have-no-idea-how-the-nation-can-pay-for-healthcare-reform.html">
Russia $ 70 billion
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Just call it the USS George W. Bush. They only had to spend $5
billion plus to figure out it was a warship which couldn't fight in wars.
Not even wars of near 70 years ago (WWII).
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"...the world's most expensive surface warship can't properly defend itself
or other ships from an extremely widespread threat."
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"the Navy has been delivering a lunchbag of bullshit to Congress regarding
surface combatants for three years."
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Most expensive US fighter jet ever built can outfly anything else in the sky--
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