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To: neolib who wrote (224994)	3/19/2005 1:38:17 PM
From: 10K a day	Respond to of 1571808

>The reason that costs for medicine, education, and social service care have been increasing faster than inflation as a whole (for quite a long time now), is that these areas are heavily dependent on professional services which have not seen the dramatic increase in productivity associated with automation that has positively impacted other areas of the economy. The good news is that productivity in these areas is not likely to nosedive, well that's encouraging. So i guess productivity increases in the military hav given us more bang for the buck so to speak. geeze. wtf :(

To: neolib who wrote (224994)	3/19/2005 1:43:11 PM
From: 10K a day	Respond to of 1571808

and it really doesn't even matter because the FED printing press can just keep printing as long as idiots everywhere keep buying our debt... i think the looming bond fiasco is going to make BOND FIASCO's of old look like paupers... don't f*ck the fed err fight.

To: neolib who wrote (224994)	3/19/2005 1:56:34 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571808

re: The good news is that productivity in these areas is not likely to nosedive, so there is not much downside risk to the projects. There is IMO, a good possibility of unexpected productivity increases in the future, so I suspect that current dire estimates will be bettered. I hope you are right. I think one difference is competition; because third parties end up paying the medical bills, not end users, the normal market pressures to provide a better product at reduced cost are not as strong. John