<VV> GM Announces 30,000 Job Cuts - No Corvair

[John Kepler]

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> National Health Care could help solve the problem.
> flame away,

Yeah Buddy!  I just KNEW someone was going to post some drivel like this!
So here's the flame you asked for!

Reality!  "National Health Care" works so well in Canada that they pay twice
what we do in income tax PLUS a 12% VAT on everything they buy.....something
like 30% of their GDP goes to operating their health-care system, and that
number rises every year.....that's more than we spend on our military!  And
the health care system they get for all that money?   It's so friggin'
wonderful that I now have a very compitent former Canadian doctor taking
care of my family in Ohio!......a Canadian citizen I know that became ill
while working in the US was extremely grateful that he had his heart attack
in Sandusky, Ohio, rather than his home in Kitchener Ont., because even a
modest hospital in a small Ohio city had facilities that he would have
waited for months to get access to at home in the Great White North, by
which time he would have been dead or severely disabled due to their
"prioritized" government-operated medical system!  As it was, in the US, his
heart attack was diagnosed and evaluated in minutes rather than days, his
major blockages repaired within hours, and he was back in Canada within 3
days of his first symptoms....all before any cardiac damage occured.  His
own doctor back in Kitchener estimates that he'll be able to have the rest
of his heart problems taken care of in Canada, "In two or three
months".....if he'd stayed in Sandusky another 2 days, that work would have
been done too!

The problems with socialism can be summed up in one sentence, "As long as
they pretend to pay us, we'll pretend to work!".  All of you amateur
socialists have never seen it in action, up close and personal!  I partly
own a small business.  Our employee health care costs are significant, with
deductibles and co-pays.....but with their participation and a
company-funded Medical IRA , we have more than adequate access to the best
care in the world at a reasonable cost  What the UAW has makes our plan look
bargain-basement cheap, and costs 3-4 times as much.  The UAW insisted on
the "whole loaf", wouldn't budge in the face of economic realities, with
major lay-offs as the inevitable result!  And Gettelfinger has the stones to
act surprized!

John Kepler