[ale] Incompetent corporate web sites (was: Ubuntu Linux ROCKS!)

[William Wylde]

And remember FICA is probably the largest single deduction on your wages-
much more than the dollar a day I pulled out of my rear.  And the reason
it's going to fail is still because of what can best be described as
Congressional embezzlement.

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:30 PM, William Wylde <durtybill at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, I realized I was thinking "250 billion" (brain fart) instead of "250
> million" (apprx) after I had sent it.  It would take a few years and a
> dollar a day to top Gate's fortune by as much as I suggested.  Not too many
> years though, what, 9-10?
>
> Plus, I'm talking just basic emergency medical like medicaid covers, not
> that that's cheap, either:
>
> http://www.cato.org/pressroom.php?display=news&id=109
>
> But I still think that a private collective is better, and would be more
> efficient than anything congress and DC could cobb together.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 1:45 AM, wylde bill <durtybill at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Why, if every citizen of the US contributed ONE DOLLAR towards a public
>> > health collective it would IMMEDIATELY be the largest trust in the
>> > world.  Dwarfing Mr. Gate's fortune by at least a factor of 8x.
>>
>> There would be a whopping $300M or so if every US resident chipped in that
>> buck.
>>
>> Comparatively, that's a minor drop in the bucket that won't fund Grady
>> Hospital for longer than about 6 months.
>>
>> "In 2007, national health care spending reached $2.2 trillion, or
>> $7,421 per person."
>> http://www.chcf.org/topics/healthinsurance/index.cfm?itemID=133630
>>
>> That's a chunk of cash that is still less than the deductible on my
>> major medical coverage.
>>
>> So that $1/person covers aggregate costs for 40,425 people in 2007. To
>> hit that 2007 cost level, everyone must kick in $20/day. That's higher
>> than the average daily food costs per person in the US ($7 per day
>> according to
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/health/nutrition/04well.html/?_r=1
>> )
>>
>> Ouch.
>> --
>> --
>> James P. Kinney III
>> Actively in pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Ale mailing list
>> Ale at ale.org
>> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
>> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mail.ale.org/pipermail/ale/attachments/20091022/e25bafa4/attachment.html