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GOP Whistling Past the End of America

Idahoser Wrote: May 31, 2012 10:52 AM
Gee Ann, maybe picking somebody who wasn't just another RINO again would have been a better use of your own passion, huh.
the problem has never been where Zero was born. The problem is in the coverup, the judges who can find that just any American citizen is not the "injured party" in a candidate for Pres having his birth questioned. They were all wrong. There are plenty of legitimate reasons Zero should never have been President. The "birther" crap brings a whole bunch of other people into question for covering up.
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Should Fat People Pay More For Insurance?

Idahoser Wrote: May 27, 2012 11:42 AM
Insurance can save you money if your bad thing, which you hope will never happen, happens. A service plan, on the other hand, must always cost more than if you simply paid as you went, because you're paying more people between you and the service provider. Duh!
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Should Fat People Pay More For Insurance?

Idahoser Wrote: May 27, 2012 11:40 AM
cont. Insurance is not what you have there, it is a service plan. Insurance is a wager accepted by a company who pays people in the thousands to tell them exactly what is the likelihood you will suffer that bad thing, and they charge you based on that likelihood. If you're fat, dam straight your likelihood of something bad is higher, and yes absolutely those tables will tell them to charge you more. That is the only way it can be called insurance!
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Should Fat People Pay More For Insurance?

Idahoser Wrote: May 27, 2012 11:37 AM
if government were not already forcing companies to do things that are contrary to good business practices, they would ALREADY be charging those at higher risk with higher premiums, AS THEIR ACTUARIAL TABLES TELL THEM TO. Too many people, yourself included, do not understand what insurance is. It is and can be nothing but, a wager. You bet against yourself. You bet that something will happen that you hope will not. You only get paid off if your bad thing happens. It cannot be (no matter how much you whine) that insurance is something you get routinely, like teeth cleaning, annual medical checkups, filling your gas tank, or anything else that happens on schedule and deliberately. Insurance is not what you have there, it is a...
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Are We Going Over a Cliff?

Idahoser Wrote: May 26, 2012 12:47 PM
past tense. there's no stopping now. enjoy the ride, it's the sudden stop at the bottom that kills you.
I hope he's better on TV than radio, but I can't listen to him, he can't string four words together without falling into a list of grievances. Couldn't complete a sentence if his life depended on it. And when you get down to his core beliefs he's more progressive than conservative. Stick with Rush and Levin. ;)
the concept has nothing to do with the price of silver reaching $20 or any other price- look to the GSR, gold:silver ratio. It's been in the 80's in the last few years (it takes 80 oz of silver to by 1 oz of gold) and as low as the 30's. Traditionally the ratio should be 20:1 to 15:1. The idea is when the ratio is high you buy silver with your gold, and when the ratio is low you buy gold with your silver. The article author does not seem to grasp that the relationship between the two is the reason for the swapping. In the end if you do it right your stack grows larger. In reality you lose some on the buying and the selling; Instead, you should be buying silver when it's cheap and buy gold when silver is expensive (compared to gold)
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Making Life Fair

Idahoser Wrote: May 16, 2012 1:18 PM
"Fair" is the opposite of "Progressive".
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Should We Obey All Laws?

Idahoser Wrote: May 16, 2012 1:17 PM
the tenth amendment had meaning when the states had representation. There is no such thing as "states" now.
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