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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (465332)	1/16/2012 3:16:17 PM
From: skinowski	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793957

all you need do is reverse the TREND of big government and start winding it down, but make no mistake, the unwind will be painful for millions of people of course we haven't even scratched the surface with the benefit of dismantling the current regulatory regime Yes, the unwinding would need to be gradual, and there would be plenty of what people often call human costs. But when numbers do not add up, the reckoning becomes inevitable. The alternative would be a collapse, and that would mean much higher human costs. As far as regulations go, during all the years when I had a private medical practice I always had a feeling that the SOB's were a step ahead of me. And it became worse in recent years. Between the OSHA and CLIA and HIPAA, to name just a few, I was never certain about being fully in compliance. In 25 years I never broke a vial with blood in the office, but I had to have a detailed multi page plan what to do in case such an event would ever occur. Was I born yesterday? Would I not figure out how to clean up safely a small blood spill, without their thousands of rules? All this hassle was one of the reasons that I eventually gave up the practice. A friend who is still in practice tells me that he spent the last few days working on a fire evacuation plan. The guy is an Internist, runs a relatively small practice with the help from his wife and a single part time employee. The office has plenty of doors and windows, and is located on the ground level. And he MUST have a fire evacuation plan that takes days to formulate? There is no end to this crap.

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (465332)	1/16/2012 3:28:50 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793957

we are frogs. you just can't throw us in a pot of boiling water and expect us to not jump. The liberals put the frogs in cool water and put the fire on low heat for the past 60-70 years. The frogs were getting pretty well liberally cooked so they tried to turn the heat on to high and the frogs are jumping now. Now the conservatives need to turn the heat down slowly so that the frogs don't go into shock from being too cold. Throwing the frogs into ice water now would make them jump just as much as boiling water. I think I took the metaphor too far this time....but... I agree with you and it is why, even though I like Ron Paul's domestic policies, I would never vote for him in the primaries. He wants to throw the frogs into the ice water.