Age discrimination on entitlements is the norm.
However the underlying issue is providing health care. Right now we are
very close to having de facto universal health care. Almost no one is
turned down at the Emrgency Rooms of the nation's hospitals. All services
are not provided to all patients, but the fact remains that we as a Nation
already have nearly universal health care, but it is provided in a patch
work of means. This may be the best way, but perhaps there are more things
we could do. I like the interaction and the jockeying that goes on in
political solutions. I believe it has given us a country with some of the
finest services in the World.
All I am suggesting is that perhaps the time has come to homogenize our
health care offerings so that more services can be provided to more people
for the same or less cost. At least, we could look at it couldn't we?
As far as fairness is concerned, how do you feel about the employer that has
to offer you health insurance and pay a portion of your costs for you, but
your employer's competition in the rest of the World has no such burden? Do
you agree that in fairness he should be allowed to just drop your health
insurance and let you take care of it on your own?
---------------------------------
Booth Martin
http://www.martinvt.com
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-------Original Message-------
From: Open discssion among iSeries Users
Date: 03/02/05 12:56:10
To: Open discssion among iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [CPF0000] Afganistan Opium
As SecDef, Jimmy of course would go to afghanistan and try to replace
the poppy fields with pot fields, if he weren't killed trying. I
don't think the Afghans are parrot heads. Their music tends to high
pitched warbles and clucks.
Once you start rewarding youngsters and seniors with a new
entitlement, do you think that would make it through the courts?
Those who don't recieve free health care for no other reason than age,
would of course sue for age discrimination, and then your plan would
be blown completely out of the water.
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 12:33:19 -0600 (Central Standard Time), Booth
Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What would I have us do? You mean if I was King? Well, first We'd
appoint
> Jimmy Buffet as Secretary of Defense. Then we'd work on a universal
health
> care solution that starts with universal coverage for everyone born after
> 1995 or before 1940 Each year We would move the covered year inwards by 5
> years, at least for starters.
>
> Next We would deal with the morass of our borders. This is a far greater
> issue than hiring more guards. . .
>
> ---------------------------------
> Booth Martin
> http://www.martinvt.com
> ---------------------------------
> -------Original Message-------
>
> From: Open discssion among iSeries Users
> Date: 03/02/05 12:14:46
> To: Open discssion among iSeries Users
> Subject: [CPF0000] Afganistan Opium
>
> Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Being a good Republican you would of course be in favor of killing or
> > otherwise abusing the poppy farmers? Punishment is in order for all
> > infractions.
>
> what do you mean "a good republican" would be in favor of killing them?
>
> I wouldn't have a problem with imprisoning them after fair warning,
> but that's not what I asked.
> What would you have us do?
>
> > The drugs flowed, that is true, but apparently from storage in places
like
> > our good friend Pakistan. There is no evidence it was still coming out
> of
> > Afghanistan.
> >
> > ---------------------------------
> > Booth Martin
> > http://www.martinvt.com
> > ---------------------------------
> > -------Original Message-------
> >
> > From: Open discssion among iSeries Users
> > Date: 03/02/05 11:16:08
> > To: Open discssion among iSeries Users
> > Subject: Re: [CPF0000] Lebanon's situation
> >
> > Booth,
> >
> > Gosh, this never happens - you pick a single sentence out of a piece
> > that seems to prove your point, and then either stop reading or stop
> > comprehending.
> >
> > This time, you stopped just short of this part of the report:
> >
> > "Despite the Afghanistan poppy ban, large seizures of opiates
> > originating in Afghanistan continued to be made in Pakistan and other
> > neighboring countries in 2001. This indicated that, despite the poppy
> > ban, drug traffickers were able to draw on stockpiles of opium
> > produced in Afghanistan over the last several years. It is uncertain
> > what stockpiles remain or what cultivation to expect in 2002."
> >
> > so, they shut down production, but the flow continued. Sounds to me
> > like window dressing to justify the 40 million in aid we gave them in
> > return for curbing opium production.
> >
> > But let's assume you're correct, that the Talaban actually did curb
> > the opium trade for a year. How did they do it? Did they just put
> > out the word: "we're banning opium. please comply." Did they pay
> > the producers off using either the money from the stockpile or the US
> > aid? Or did they kill them or beat them? Did they burn the fields?
> > Did they give them something else to grow they could make a living
> > from? Inquiring minds want to know.
> >
> > Do you think the warlords who's income was dependent on opium just
> > shrugged their shoulders and said "okee dokee mullah omar, whatever
> > you say". Or were they paid off using the stockpiles too?
> >
> > Just wondering.
> >
> > however they "did it" if they do you think any of these same tactics
> > would work for the current government there? Would we approve of
> > these methods today? Would you approve?
> >
> > Rick
> >
> > On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 09:50:16 -0600 (Central Standard Time), Booth
> > Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > " In 2000, the Taliban, governing Afghanistan at the time, controlled
> over
> > > 96 percent of the area where opium poppy was cultivated. Afghanistan
> > managed
> > > to reduce its production levels by 97% from 2000 to a record low of 1
> 685
> > > hectares in 2001. The Taliban were able to achieve this significant
> > > reduction by imposing a ban on poppy cultivation the year prior in
July
> > 2000
> > > ....
> > >
> > > http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy
> > > gov/publications/international/factsht/heroin.html
> > >
> > > So, we know the production can be stopped. It was. Now its back at
> even
> > > greater levels than pre-Taliban.
> > >
> > > Here's a rhetorical question for you: How many people in the US die
> each
> > > year from Afghanistani heroin? More or less than died in the TWC on
> 9/11,
> > > do you suppose? How many lives in the US did the Taliban save by
> halting
> > > poppy production until we killed them?
> > >
> > > ---------------------------------
> > > Booth Martin
> > > http://www.martinvt.com
> > > ---------------------------------
> > > -------Original Message-------
> > >
> > > From: Open discssion among iSeries Users
> > > Date: 03/02/05 09:30:18
> > > To: Open discssion among iSeries Users
> > > Subject: Re: [CPF0000] Lebanon's situation
> > >
> > > um, my link shows that Afghanistan was the world leader in opium
> > > production pre-war, taliban era.
> > >
> > > you said they "became" the world leader because of our occupation. I
> > > said they already were the world leader.
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 08:11:15 -0600 (Central Standard Time), Booth
> > > Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Your link is dated 2001 Rick. Find a more current link. :)
> > > >
> > > > ---------------------------------
> > > > Booth Martin
> > > > http://www.martinvt.com
> > > > ---------------------------------
> > > > -------Original Message-------
> > > >
> > > > From: Open discssion among iSeries Users
> > > > Date: 03/02/05 07:56:52
> > > > To: Open discssion among iSeries Users
> > > > Subject: Re: [CPF0000] Lebanon's situation
> > > >
> > > > Then someone's lying. from the words in your google search:
> > > >
> > > > http://opioids.com/afghanistan/heroin.html
> > > >
> > > > Afghanistan's world domination in the heroin trade stems from a
record
> > > > crop of 4,600 tons in 1999. "All the information coming from
> > > > intelligence sources and customs and excise suggest that it really
is
> > > > true," said Roger Howard, chief executive of the drug information
> > > > charity, Drugscope.
> > > >
> > > > Once again, you find what links you want to find and ignore all
others
>
> > > >
> > > > Again, I ask. Should we just nepalm the fields and anyone in them?
> > > >
> > > > Until the economy improves and they have alternatives, it will
> > > > continue. We could try talaban style methods of 'improving' the
> > > > situation, but that would be counterproductive, don't you think?
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 07:40:22 -0600 (Central Standard Time), Booth
> > > > Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > You prefer your own links. Google Afghanistan poppy heroin. see
> what
> > > you
> > > > > get. Its common.
> > > > >
> > > > > ---------------------------------
> > > > > Booth Martin
> > > > > http://www.martinvt.com
> > > > > ---------------------------------
> > > > > -------Original Message-------
> > > > >
> > > > > From: Open discssion among iSeries Users
> > > > > Date: 03/02/05 07:37:34
> > > > > To: Open discssion among iSeries Users
> > > > > Subject: Re: [CPF0000] Lebanon's situation
> > > > >
> > > > > why can't you include a link? is that so hard?
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 06:38:18 -0600 (Central Standard Time), Booth
> > > > > Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > > . By 2001 only 30 square miles of land were in use for growing
> > opium
> > > > > > poppies. A year later, after American and British troops had
> removed
> > > the
> > > > > > Taliban and installed the interim government, the land under
> > > cultivation
> > > > > > leapt back to 285 square miles, with Afghanistan supplanting
Burma
> > to
> > > > > become
> > > > > > the world's largest opium producer once more."
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ---------------------------------
> > > > > > Booth Martin
> > > > > > http://www.martinvt.com
> > > > > > ---------------------------------
> > > > > > -------Original Message-------
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