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Misplaced Empathy

The poor have top quality medical.  They are also provided with food, housing, electricity, social security (before 65).  This class is used by the liberals to get whatever they currently want.

Do we need to ditch our health care system for a group deemed the empathy target? 

Why can't we evaluate the uninsured and give them help or incentives.  The number 46.7M is actually 12M once illegals, people who can afford insurance, between jobs, those who are entitiled (but don't know it or want to fill out the paper) are eliminated.

Change 100% for 0.04%.

And they say 14,000 are added each day.  This is 5,100M for 0.17% added per year.  How many are because of unemployment?  Shouldn't we work on the employment, not give over our health care system?

Congress can solve the uninsured problem in a few days.  The employment problem could be solved if congress helped small business.

Increasing health care costs will excel to exponential increases once the government is in control.

The reason employers provided health care insurance was the government froze salaries.  Business needed a way to attrack the best talent.  Eventually, the employers will drop health insurance coverage.

Once this happens, the workers will realize how much is set aside for insurance.  It is like taxes.  Not seen, then the government can mismanage.  When the government makes mistakes, they raise taxes or cut back on services.

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Institutional/Exchange Buyers, not Oil Speculators

Ben Stein has an article about how oil speculators caused the price spike of oil last summer.  Link is http://spectator.org/archives/2009/07/29/the-oil-shortage-hoax.
 
In Ben's article, a few speculators had control over market exchange or an interface of the exchange.
 
Either market handlers manipulated the online exchange or corporation investors took advantage of an online error or timing.  Including oil shortage and foreign upsurge demand hoax rumors, price rose to sky high levels.
 
Regular oil speculators could not make buyers pay a higher price unless they had control of what the market price is.
 
According to Ben, a few speculators, investment bankers, and/or hedge funds manipulated online market price of options.  The best price was either delayed or replaced with a higher price.  Buyers would accept higher prices than what the sellers were willing to accept.  Further driving up of prices was when option owners held off selling because prices could go higher in the next days. 
 
Why would exchanges, hedge funds, investment brokers, etc. risk their reputation?  Why with only oil and not any other commodity?  Oil is emotional because it touches all our lives.  The risk reward is to have a "Cap and Trade" bill pass for alternative oil stocks or environmental enthusiastics. 
 
This proves manipulation of capitalism is the problem, not capitalism operating freely.
 
Trust, but verify.  We have to make sure our capialism has liberity and our audits are checked and re-verified.  It could be an innocent computer error.
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