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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (169562)	12/6/2008 8:47:07 PM
From: alanrs	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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. ARS

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (169562)	12/6/2008 9:31:18 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Respond to 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.<< perhaps you didn't understand what you wrote. read it again. here is the equation... -$800B to foreign countries for gas + $800B for healthcare + X required to replace the lost $800B in energy = 0 (assuming all else is equal). X, by definition, has to be $0. you made the assumption, even if you didn't realize it or wish you hadn't. there is no other way to read your post as written.