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Posted on July 9 at 1:38 a.m.
kmbjd40,
I am a LSU fan. Thanks!
I don't agree that the military is badly run. $200 toliet seats -- that's an example of corruption. Though there certainly is waste.
As for the post office, well, call me old fashion, but I prefer it to email and I think they do a good job sending my letters to my family and friends. I even like going in the downtown post office.
>>>I won't even go into the DMV or public transit or so many others.
What public transit? I drive my car everywhere I go. It's true that the roads in Natchez look like a third world country.
>>>And look at the public school system. The US spends far more money per student than any country in the world and our school system, for lack of a better word, sucks.
Our schools are in awful shape. I've never heard that the US spend more money than any other country. Where did you get that information?
>>>In England, people wait so long to see dentists that some pull their own teeth.
English dental care does seem to be lacking -- they all have bad teeth. But this wasn’t my experience in the emergency room or to see a doctor for a broken rib. It was fast and modern and cheap both times.
Just my thoughts.
Posted on July 7 at 10:39 a.m.
kmbjd40 wrote,
>>>Setting aside the fact that the government can't run ANYTHING well, or even adequately,
How about how the government runs the military? Or the even the post office and libraries? Fire stations?
>>>First, Obama has stated on many occasions that he wants a single payer system like the disastrous systems in Canada and Great Britain.
Have you ever been sick in Canada or Britain? I’ve went to the emergency room and a doctor’s office in Europe.
I had an eye-infection (something like pink eye) and went to the emergency room. I waited about an hour and saw the doctor. He examined and dilated my eye and gave me a prescription for three different drops to deal with inflammation. The whole thing, the visit and the medicine, cost 4.90€.
Another time I was visiting and thought I broke a rib. I made an appointment with a doctor. I was in the waiting room for about twenty minutes. She looked at my rib and told me that she didn’t think that it was broken but that I could have an x-ray if I wanted (I didn’t). She wrote me a prescription for something like aspirin. The only expense for the whole visit was the extra-strenght aspirin, under 5€.
Everything about the facilities were modern and quick.
>>>And since the government doesn't have to turn a profit, like the private insurers, they can undercut private plans and run them out of business, which is the true goal here.
This sounds like you’re saying that the government is more efficient than free market business. So which is it? The government is a totally goof or so capable that business can’t compete?
>>>It would make more sense to simply give those who can't get coverage cash to pay for care. It would be far less expensive and far less intrusive.
Insurance companies aren’t intrusive? Insurance companies aren’t doctors or sick people but they profit from the medical field. They provide no tangible service -- the doctors are the ones curing you.
I know a friend whose insurance company tried to drop him once they found out he was severely (and expensively) sick. He almost lost his house to pay for his treatment – all this while after working and thinking he had been covered. Their job is to make money off of your, whether your well or not.
You can loosed your health and your house and the insurance companies get rich.
Seems like a bad system to me.
Posted on July 7 at 9:50 a.m.
It is sinful that there is no functioning public swimming pool in Natchez. When I grew up, there was a pool and a swim team and all the kids were busy all summer. Everyone was in great shape.
Do kids today even know how to swim? Where do they learn? In the river? No pool means it’s that much easier for kids to stare at the boob-tube a little longer. Summers spent on the sofa -- no wonder we have an obesity problem.
Posted on May 22 at 8:28 a.m.
Yes, yes, yes. I'm going to spend some time in August with family. Everyone should take as much vacation as possible.
We're all dying in slow motion.
Posted on May 7 at 4:58 a.m.
Butch Brown was the best mayor Natchez has had in decades and decades.
Posted on April 12 at 8:14 a.m.
Hytekrednek,
The president has set a firm deadline to end the Iraqi occupation by August 2010. I think 50,000 troops will remain till 2012. After six years of life-loss coupled with the titanic sums of money spent and the fact that we could end up with another dictator running that country, well, I think tragedy is an appropriate word.
The situation in Afghanistan probably warrants military intervention – the center of world terrorism is a direct line between the mountains in Afghanistan and the hotels of Mumbai. An area that includes the nuclear weapons of Pakistan.
Posted on April 11 at 5:48 p.m.
reneef wrote: While the war has not made an effect on my current freedoms it has taken the war off US soil and keeps the problems on the other side of the world. If we were not there helping then the problems could move to US soil and then my freedoms would be greatly curtailed.
reneef,
With all respect, exactly “problems” are you expecting to “move to US soil” from Iraq?
Iraq is not and never has been a military threat to the US (remember the non-existence of those WMDs from Collin Powel’s presentation at the UN).
The war in Iraq is an unprovoked offensive invasion and six year occupation of a country that is literally on the other side of the world. 4,000 Americans and as many as a 100,000 Iraqis have died and I don’t know why. It’s is the definition of foreign policy INSANITY to me.
With respect to those who disagree, I’m am thankful we have a new president who is working to change this tragic situation.
Posted on April 11 at 7:22 a.m.
Fifteen of the 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. Al-Qaeda was started in the 70’s in Afghanistan. Bin Laden (who is Saudi) and al-Qaeda are still in Afghanistan. What’s 9/11 got to do with Iraq?
I hope these troops a safe and speedy return home to Natchez and I’ll be praying for them and their families.
Posted on December 14 at 8:29 a.m.
I'd like to see a wellness center in Natchez like there is in Tupelo. We certainly need a working swimming pool for the summers. Lord knows, we have a weight problem.
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Posted on October 4 at 5:09 a.m.
Butch Brown was the best mayor Natchez has had in my lifetime.
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