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In particular, I'm wondering if it would work on a 60 acre (NOT All Sports) lake.    I think there is enough room, but have only sailed it on larger (3X or bigger) lakes.    It's definitely not enough room for a Hobie cat.  

I currently have separate 529 accounts for each child. Would it be better to consolidate it those investments into one in the name of my wife and myself alone?

Bush's Prescription drug plan added 600 BILLION to the deficit in 5 years (according to the ORIGINAL CBO PROJECTION....compared with a 140 BILLION dollar SURPLUS for the reform package now). Bush's Prescription plan provided no source of revenue to pay for itself and added ZERO concessions from the drug suppliers. It explicitly rules out Medicare negotiating prices for drugs.....costing us far more than what the CBO project stated.

Medicare D is a Republican attempt to kill Medicare by privatizing it, which has proven wildly ineffective. We pay almost twice as much for everyone in Medicare who decides to use Medicare D.....and always for for less general coverage.

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This goes against everything Jesus taught while he was on earth. It goes against everything in the Bible.

Republicans oppose making our healthcare system univeral and more affordable......but are now proposing a tax cut for PET CARE....

http://www.bloggingformichigan.com/diary/4534/mcco...

The budget battle of 1996 pitted Clinton versus a Republican Congress. The Republicans wanted deep cuts in Medicare, which would have been a first step to gutting/killing the program.

If they got their way, would we be better off?

Why don't Republicans come out now and propose getting rid of Medicare, if they really fear any form of (what they call) 'socialized medicine'?

Looking for experience and opinions on the issue. Wait a year or three or no time at all to start on the second kid, and what's too long a wait?

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Bush's biggest initiative after the 2004 election was an attempt to privatize Social Security. That means your retirement would be based on the stock market......and worth almost nothing right now.

She looked like she was going through a breakdown during the election, and it was 100 X worse last night.

Does anyone still HONESTLY believe that she's mentally and emotionally capable to be Vice President, and step in for the President at a moment's notice?

Or is it only OK for Arabs?

Since it's just a means to question someone....I don't see the problem with using it as a form of discipline and getting the answer from possible criminals.

For years, Republicans have tried to say that 'liberal' is a bad word. They would use it as a brand to label all that was 'bad'. The problem is that REPUBLICAN POLICY is what destroyed our economy and created the wild roller coaster (mostly down) that our economy is riding.....and everyone with an ounce of common sense knows this.

So, now people are rightfully seeing 'liberal' policy...as the sensible route, and Republicans pull out a new word - 'socialist'.

What's scary is that even in economic calamity, this is the biggest policy change in the Republican party. While the Democrats are looking for answers to the economic issues of the day....Republicans just chose a new label to slander -- they are arguing semantics.

Roe vs Wade, Bush vs Gore, etc, etc.....

And the reason why.

We arguably spend well over 1 TRILLION a year (like 1.5 T actually) on the department of defense, but the official number (not counting wars and programs billed elsewhere) is somewhere around 700 BILLION dollars.

Should we close all our foreign bases, and cut back spending to a fraction....to what we'd need just to defend our borders?

Also note where you fall politically.....if you align with a party or ideology.

Just to be fair:

Civil Libertarian / Democratic Socialist (that's Democratic not Democrat)

Nudge: Improving Decisions

Rise and Decline of Nations - Mancur Olson

Supercapitalism - Robert Reich

Conscience of a Liberal - Paul Krugman

Hegemony or Survival - Chomsky

Also note where you fall politically.....if you align with a party or ideology.

Just to be fair:

Civil Libertarian / Democratic Socialist (not really a Democrat)

Nudge: Improving Decisions

Rise and Decline of Nations - Mancur Olson

Supercapitalism - Robert Reich

Conscience of a Liberal - Paul Krugman

Hegemony or Survival - Chomsky

All they talk about is how all of Obama's plans will fail, even though they have offered nothing new or any real alternatives. All they have done is oppose, for the sake of opposing....without offering any real solutions or positive support for the long term health of our economy.

Lets not even get started with their inability to admit that it was their policies which trashed the economy in the first place....

Socialized Medicine....is what Britain has with the NHS. It means government controls everything in the medical system - every hospital, etc.

Nobody is fighting for Socialized medicine in the USA. Nobody wants it.

Health Insurer Reform.....is what the Clinton's wanted in the 1990's and what most plans are based on now.

Health Insurer reform would allow EVERYONE to pick ANY health insurance plan. Along with all the private plans - BCBS, etc - you could also choose Medicare or Medicaid. This means MORE competition in the industry and cheaper rates overall.

The only reason Big Insurance is fighting this is because they know that their current 'administrative costs' (mostly due to profits) would shrink. Right now that 'administrative cost' is around 20 to 25 cents per dollar, compared to Medicare's administrative cost of 2 cents per dollar.

18 cents of every dollar spent in the USA is spent on health care, and this is rising fast - it will be 20 cents/dollar by 2015, based on current projections.

Canadians, on the other hand, spend about 9 to 10 cents of every dollar.

If we were to adopt the Canadian system today, we'd effectively get an across the board tax cut of 7 to 8 percent. More money that would go back to the people, and could be spent to stimulate the economy or hire new employees.

That's a huge cut by any measure. Apply that to the holy grail of Republican economics (the Laffer Curve) and it's clear to see that this would solve all our economic troubles.

Not to mention - everyone would be insured.

Health Insurer reform - Is this the answer to all our problems?