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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (68890)	7/18/2009 4:36:27 PM
From: longnshort	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224705

but if something had happen to you. You would have sued the shit out of them. That's why they kept you over night, to protect themselves from tort lawyers. That is want needs to be fixed, But obama and the dems won't go there because that's where they get their money

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (68890)	7/18/2009 5:05:26 PM
From: mph	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224705

If they had sent you home where you went into cardiac arrest, you or your family would have been the first in line to sue for malpractice. You have to be wired that way or you could not have worked for WC applicants in your career.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (68890)	7/18/2009 5:47:54 PM
From: lorne	Respond to of 224705

Pay attention to the last paragraph hussein obama is not alone with his agenda. IMO UN calls for overthrow of free market ideology The United Nations has called for a return to state-led "industrial policy" for poorer countries in what amounts to a rejection of the free-market thinking that has dominated global institutions for the last 30 years. By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Published: 8:04PM BST 16 Jul 2009 telegraph.co.uk Supachai Panitchpakdi, head of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), said the financial crisis had exposed the deep failings of growth models adopted in Africa, the Pacific, and parts of Asia, usually under pressure from the West. "Some advanced countries may be seeing an end to the crisis but it's still darkness at the end of tunnel for the least developed, and many of them are going backwards. We're talking about a billion malnourished people," he said in London. Capital flows to poorer states and export earnings have together collapsed by $2 trillion (£1.22 trillion) since the credit crunch began. "This is an alarming trend, and it's not a result of their own doing," he said. Mr Supachai said the world had spent some $5 trillion on financial support since the crisis began but almost nothing has reached the most vulnerable countries. "There is very little trickle down," he said. While Eastern Europe has been rescued by the International Monetary Fund, the world's 49 "least developed countries' (LDCs) are too poor to meet the loan conditions. UNCTAD said market ideology has distorted the structure of farming in many of these countries over the years and prevented them creating light industries and processing needed to move up the manufacturing ladder. "The market-led reforms since the early 1980s have, to a large extent, failed to correct this deep-seated weakness," said the agency's annual report. Decrying a "false dichotomy" between the virtues of the free market and the alleged vice of state dirigisme, it said there is much to learn from the calibrated "industrial policies" of Malaysia, Sweden, Taiwan, and Finland. "Not all decisions made by governments are always rational. Governments are subject to capture by special interests. The same criticisms, however, apply equally to the market," it said. UNCTAD said the commodity boom of recent few years masked the underlying problems, as well as leaving countries exposed to sudden shocks and debt crises. The claim may raise eyebrows among those in the City who think that a "commodity supercycle" driven by China has transformed the prospects of mineral-rich states, despite the price correction over the last year. The UN's tilt towards "smart dirigisme" would have caused apoplexy in Washington under the Bush Administration, and will remind some critics of development orthodoxies in the 1960s. It may receive a less chilly reception from President Barack Obama and his Democratic Congress. As global leadership shifts ineluctably from West to East it is no longer possible in any case to ignore the success of Asia's state-led systems. The ideological baton is passing.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (68890)	7/18/2009 5:53:19 PM
From: lorne	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224705

ken...a trip down memory lane for another of your god like idols. 40th anniversary of Mary Jo Kopechne?s drowning at Chappaquiddick...Kennedy's story still doubtful July 17, examiner.com Sometime around midnight, on July 18, 1969 Kennedy drove his Oldsmobile 88 off of a small bridge on Chappaquiddick island, into eight feet of chilly water. The vehicle landed upside-down. While Kennedy managed to free himself from the wreck and swim to safety, his passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne was left in the car to drown. Once he reached shore, Kennedy claims to have made seven or eight attempts to rescue Kopechne, but could not free her. Kennedy then walked back to the cottage where he and four other men, were partying with several young women known as the “Boiler Room Girls“ who had worked on Robert Kennedy‘s campaign. Though Kennedy passed by a fire station and a private home to return to the cottage, he never stopped to ask for help for the trapped Kopechne. He returned to the party and according to Kennedy himself, informed his cousin and a friend of the situation. The two men, Joseph Gargan and Paul Markham claim to have returned to the scene of the accident and made several unsuccessful attempts to free Kopechne. Then Kennedy’s story takes an even stranger turn. After the failed rescue attempts, Kennedy claims to have jumped back into the water and made the 500-foot swim across the channel back to Edgartown. He then walked back to his hotel and spent the night. He even took the time to change clothes and pay a visit to the front-desk, to complain about a noisy party--no doubt Kennedy's sloppy attempt at securing an alibi. The next morning, Gargan and Markham around 8:00 a.m., and were supposedly shocked to discover that Kennedy never reported the accident to police. According to Kennedy‘s own testimony, he told them: "about my own thoughts and feelings as I swam across that channel ... that somehow when they arrived in the morning that they were going to say that Mary Jo was still alive" The two men along with Kennedy went back to Chappaquiddick, where Kennedy spent some time making phone calls, seeking advice from various individuals as to how to proceed. Meanwhile, two fisherman had discovered the submerged car and notified police. At 8:45a.m. a diver recovered the lifeless body of Mary Jo Kopechne. It was not until 10a.m., over nine hours after driving-off of the bridge that Ted Kennedy went to the police station in Edgarton to report the accident. Kennedy then gave the following prepared statement to police: “On July 18, 1969, at approximately 11:15 p.m. in Chappaquiddick, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, I was driving my car on Main Street on my way to get the ferry back to Edgartown. I was unfamiliar with the road and turned right onto Dike Road, instead of bearing hard left on Main Street. After proceeding for approximately one-half mile on Dike Road I descended a hill and came upon a narrow bridge. The car went off the side of the bridge. There was one passenger with me, one Miss Mary [Kopechne], a former secretary of my brother Sen. Robert Kennedy. The car turned over and sank into the water and landed with the roof resting on the bottom. I attempted to open the door and the window of the car but have no recollection of how I got out of the car. I came to the surface and then repeatedly dove down to the car in an attempt to see if the passenger was still in the car. I was unsuccessful in the attempt. I was exhausted and in a state of shock. I recall walking back to where my friends were eating. There was a car parked in front of the cottage and I climbed into the backseat. I then asked for someone to bring me back to Edgartown. I remember walking around for a period and then going back to my hotel room. When I fully realized what had happened this morning, I immediately contacted the police” In a move which must have been rather tortuous for her parents, Kennedy attended Mary Jo's funeral, wearing a neck brace (which he reportedly never wore again) and looking rather pathetic. The diver who recovered Kopechne’s body, John Farrar testified at the official inquest that her body was found where the air pocket would have formed. He said: “Had I received a call within five to ten minutes of the accident occurring, and was able, as I was the following morning, to be at the victim's side within twenty-five minutes of receiving the call, in such event there is a strong possibility that she would have been alive on removal from the submerged car.” A week after the incident, Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and received a suspended two-month sentence. Kennedy then went on national television to repeat his rather implausible story, and to ask for the public’s “prayers.” The ensuing scandal and questionable details given by all of those involved is now left to speculation. It was obvious to most people that Kennedy had allowed a young girl to drown, in a desperate and self-serving attempt to protect his political career. The incident all but guaranteed that Kennedy could never be a serious candidate for President of the United States.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (68890)	7/18/2009 6:34:52 PM
From: Alan Smithee	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224705

The cost to Medicare was about $14,000 when they could have just adjusted by BP medicine and sent me home. This is the kind of nonsense running up the costs A perfect case for tort reform. The doctors saw a lawyer, presenting with chest pains. The choice? Adjust the meds and discharge and then risk a lawsuit, or go the extra mile and keep you overnight for additional tests. I'm surprised you don't see the correlation.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (68890)	7/18/2009 9:47:49 PM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 224705

dupe

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (68890)	7/19/2009 9:06:55 AM
From: TideGlider	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224705

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