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Offline Servonaut

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Does someone have answers to the questions?
« on: August 11, 2009, 02:00:24 PM »
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Does someone have answers to the questions?

August 10, 2009

By Martin Henrichs

I am perplexed about so many issues in the news that I can only ask questions today. Maybe someone else has the answers.

* Why is the issue of health care being decided by government and not by the consumers, health professionals and insurance companies? Isn't government the one that can't defend our borders, win the war on poverty or control the cost of stamps? And if Medicare and Medicaid are rampant with corruption and cost overruns, what will government do to a much broader program?

* Why are the 10 poorest cities in America the ones that always elect Democrats to public office? Is it because their solutions to problems is welfare, not work?

* Why is it considered desirable to register every uninformed voter to cancel out the votes of informed, well-educated people?

* What does it mean when cities with strict gun control laws, like Chicago and Washington, D.C., can't control gangs, drugs and shootings?

* Why is global warming even an issue when the increase in worldwide temperatures during the past 100 years has been only one degree Celsius and, for the past three years, has declined?

* Why does President Obama prefer to house terrorists in the United States rather than at Gitmo?

* With Cash for Clunkers and $8,000 bribes to first-time home buyers, what will happen to car and home sales when these "incentives" end? (I'm waiting for my 10 grand for grandpas.)

* Why is there so much weeping and gnashing of teeth over Burr Oak Cemetery? Didn't anyone ever visit the graves of their loved ones on their birthdays or Memorial Day to honor them? Or is there now "money in them there bones"? I found a beautiful tombstone of a relative buried in Germany in 1959. I couldn't find it again five years ago. I discovered that, because of a shortage of burial space, tombstones remain only as long as a relative pays an annual fee. Oh, well, in my opinion, it's what happened to the soul of my relative -- not his bones -- that counts.

* Should I buy a car from a company owned by unions that caused their own bankruptcies and by a government stupid enough to invest taxpayer money to prop them up?

Great questions Mr. Henrichs

More at the link.

http://www.post-trib.com/news/opinion/1706053,col-henrichs-08xx.article

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Re: Does someone have answers to the questions?
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2009, 02:12:01 PM »
The answer is: 42........
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Re: Does someone have answers to the questions?
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2009, 02:15:44 PM »
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Why are the 10 poorest cities in America the ones that always elect Democrats to public office? Is it because their solutions to problems is welfare, not work?
Adjusted for cost of living, New York City is the poorest city in the country.
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Re: Does someone have answers to the questions?
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2009, 02:34:22 PM »
Good questions.   But I'm not going to hold my breath for any answers...don't want to bump my head when I pass out!