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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (169562)12/6/2008 8:47:07 PM
From: alanrsRead Replies (1) of 306849
 
>>We could take that 800 billion and use it to fund universal healthcare for one thing, you realize that would almost pay for the entire population of the US healthcare for one year if we had the same system as most of the EU and Japan? it would cover ALL COSTS.<<

As one of the recommends on that post I believe that if you spent the 800 billion here on replacing the BTUs you didn't import, you would have zero left for health care, which was the thrust of your original post (paying for health care with the 800 billion not sent overseas for energy).

Thank you for clarifying that the real, underlying, truly fundamental point of your post had to do with balance of payments, and not health care at all. I can be a little dull witted in my dotage, and missed that subtlety.

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