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Alright thanks for the frank replies!

The most accurate slogan for the new health care system might be "We're so concerned with your health, we're willing to kill you over it"

It appears as if in the last howevermany years, many other countries have adopted American business tactics. To some degree you have all been Americanized. I realize that may sound like an insult, I don't mean it that way. ZP btw I am old enough to remember when we actually referred to Canada as our "friendly neighbor to the north".

Crossing the border was as simple as making your 'declarations' by answering just a few questions going through customs. Lots of fake terror later, we now just about have to give a blood sample to even be considered. That's as much our fault as Canada's, but likely more ours.

PBO I'll come out and say it, I'm surrounded by drones. These are not people like the rest of the world has come to define them. It's hard for me to fathom the way "most" Americans live their lives. With their shallow, robotic American Idol, bluetooth stuck to their ears 24-7 chat about nothing, pathetic cardboard and plastic daydreaming lives they have become the ultimate reflection of marketing gone berserk.

Someone asked why there was a little black kid next to Obama while he signed the bill. I think it's pretty obvious that was a nice little window-dressing photo op designed to tug at someone's (not mine) emotions. They know logic would never work in sales, because logic makes sense. Instead they have perverted the course of people's own will. I imagine many Americans fancy themselves as a model on a billboard, they are merely a product to be shaped and packaged in any way the marketers see fit. They are even proud of it, it defies me.