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Let's start with.....the public option got crushed. That negates several of your points. Oh, and with that attitude you can fuck off and die kthnx.

use the gun to shoot the sister in law and then you won't need to return it

I owned one for 7 years, and yes, they are magnificent automobiles. But you need to consider that the purchase price is really just a down payment -- the real expenses are in the upkeep. I have a friend in Delaware who owns about 20 exotics and does 95% of the work on them himself. Every Rolls, Ferrari, Jag, and Lambo he has is "jury rigged" and I wouldn't trust any of them to make it to Cleveland and back. The proper maintenance on this era Rolls/Bentley (called the SZ series) will run about 15k per year for a car in excellent condition. I've known of two people who inherited cars such as these which were not in top shape and found that to put them into top condition would cost 50k. Just for example, the brakes and suspension run on a mineral oil system pressurized to 1600 psi (no master cylinder: instead there are multiple pumps, accumulators, and spheres). This system needs expert servicing at regular intervals, and every inch of the lines is replaced every 4 years. In this respect, it's more like owning an airplane because the idea is that you replace before castastrophic failure. If you're far from home and your car "fails to proceed" (as the manual describes it), it's flatbedded home. This isn't a car you turn over to the local AAA mechanic. Tires are Avon Turbo Speeds, the only tire that can support the car's mass and yet still deliver the performance. Mounted and balanced, they run about a grand apiece. When the cars get older, some people buy them for peanuts and swap other motors/trannies, but you really don't have the real McCoy then, and to me it's just a replica car at that point. In this photo, the car on the left was 10 years old and weighed 3 tons; the car to the right was brand new and weighed 1900 lbs. The car on the left is faster http://i355.photobucket.com/albums/r445/martyr65/MartysToys.jpg

were did it say welcome to cr is what im asking... no need to be childish but still read before you post!!!

^^^^^ um....its WINTER time.

Down right un-true? OK well you can tell that to my english compostion professor, and my lawyer who both read that and broke it down into plain english. You tell me what is un-true PROOVE IT and I will happily shut up.

• Page 16: States that if you have insurance at the time of the bill becoming law and change, you will be required to take a similar plan. If that is not available, you will be required to take the gov option! • Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure! • Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed! • Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process) • Page 42: The "Health Choices Commissioner" will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None. • Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services. • Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard. • Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer. • Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (example: SEIU, UAW and ACORN) • Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange. • Page 84: All private healthcare plans must participate in the Healthcare Exchange (i.e., total government control of private plans) • Page 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services; translation: illegal aliens • Page 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan. • Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: you have no choice in the matter. • Page 124: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. No "judicial review" is permitted against the government monopoly. Put simply, private insurers will be crushed. • Page 127: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages. • Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan. No alternatives. • Page 126: Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees AND their families. • Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll <>BR • Page 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payroll • Page 167: Any individual who doesnt' have acceptable healthcare (according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income. • Page 170: Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes (Americans will pay for them). • Page 195: Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracy will have access to ALL American financial and personal records. • Page 203: "The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax." Yes, it really says that. • Page 239: Bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors and the poor most affected." • Page 241: Doctors: no matter what speciality you have, you'll all be paid the same (thanks, AMA!) • Page 253: Government sets value of doctors' time, their professional judgment, etc. • Page 265: Government mandates and controls productivity for private healthcare industries. • Page 268: Government regulates rental and purchase of power-driven wheelchairs. • Page 272: Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing! • Page 280: Hospitals will be penalized for what the government deems preventable re-admissions. • Page 298: Doctors: if you treat a patient during an initial admission that results in a readmission, you will be penalized by the government. • Page 317: Doctors: you are now prohibited for owning and investing in healthcare companies! • Page 318: Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals cannot expand without government approval. • Page 321: Hospital expansion hinges on "community" input: in other words, yet another payoff for ACORN. • Page 335: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures: i.e., rationing. • Page 341: Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans, HMOs, etc. • Page 354: Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS individuals. • Page 379: More bureaucracy: Telehealth Advisory Committee (healthcare by phone). • Page 425: More bureaucracy: Advance Care Planning Consult: Senior Citizens, assisted suicide, euthanasia? • Page 425: Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney, etc. Mandatory. Appears to lock in estate taxes ahead of time. • Page 425: Goverment provides approved list of end-of-life resources, guiding you in death. • Page 427: Government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment; government dictates how your life ends. • Page 429: Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatment as patient's health deteriorates. This can include an ORDER for end-of-life plans. An ORDER from the GOVERNMENT. • Page 430: Government will decide what level of treatments you may have at end-of-life. • Page 469: Community-based Home Medical Services: more payoffs for ACORN. • Page 472: Payments to Community-based organizations: more payoffs for ACORN. • Page 489: Government will cover marriage and family therapy. Government intervenes in your marriage. • Page 494: Government will cover mental health services: defining, creating and rationing those services.