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Statistics for today:
40% bad plan
36% good plan
24% undecided
10% change from good to bad in 2 weeksMaybe because people are actually reading the fine print in the actual proposed bill rather than depend on the totally biased, facutal lacking mass media as most of the “sheeple” in the US do. Oblahblahblahma’s approval rating will be below 50% by year’s end.
Edlreed – Did you not know that elections are simply beauty pageants these days?
Edited on Jul 29, 2009 19:28
Also remember that any transaction greater than $3,000 gets flagged by the FINCEN computer and any transaction greater than $10,000 will liekly promote an inquiry of some sort.
What is really need first is tort reform with a cap on medical malpractice suits. With 75% of Congress being attorneys, this is highly unlikely. As far as hospitals with insufficient funds, we can at least partially thank the Clinton administration for passing the law that does not allow any hospitals to refuse care to anyone, regardless of citizenship. California spent $1 billion on health care for non-citizens last year and look what state they are in. Texas passed tort reform in 2007. Since then, medical malpractice premiums have decreased 50% and there is such an influx of doctors that the liceinsing board cannot keep up. In most states, you will not even find on OB/Gyn in a town with a population of 10,000 because they can’t afford to practice when their malpractice premiums are $100,000/year. Again, our government is attempting to legislate the symtoms and not the root cause.
Edited on Jul 24, 2009 07:22
Government run health care will be the same scenario soldier!
I am simply flabbergasted why the government has adopted such a arrogant attitude that they can run programs more cost effectively and efficiently than private business when most of the upper level administration hasn’t a clue what business is about because they have never held “real” jobs or had to make payroll and stay out of your line of credit. They cannot even account for their own expenditures. Currently, direct and indirect government employment is the fastest growing job market in the US. Scott: I am one of those that is fed up. My plans have been accelerated.
There is a great Cuban restaurant in Mal Pais called Azucar run by a Cuban called Norbis and his French wife. They used to be in Cobano, but recently moved. Great food made fresh every day and reasonably priced.
La Guagua is in the Courtyard Hotel in Escazu. Habana Vieja is in El Pueblo Shopping Center.
It has significantly changed in two years and is becoming more like Jaco – overdeveloped and all of the problems Jaco has with crime and drugs. The roads are all paved and it has turned from a surf town into a purely tourist driven town with plastic stores and plastic surgeons. We were there in 2005 and again in 2007; the change was dramatic and disappointing, but endemic in Guanacaste. It has only gotten worse. Playa Grande/Huacas is much more peaceful.
Edited on Jul 08, 2009 20:11
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50% of the American public is ignorant, gullible and completely lacks any world knowledge. What they do posses comes solely from network media.Not an authority on sources for materials in Costa Rica yet, but as an owner of a construction company in the Seattle area, architect and observer of CR construction practices, is there a source for steel bar joists? If so, there must be a galvinizing tank somewhere in the central valley so you could have them dipped or you can have the red iron tube steel dipped after you blast the corrosion off. Just a thought.
I have several American friends that have visited Cuba via San Jose and Mexico City in the last year. Your US Passport will have an inserted visa page (must request) so that it is not a permanent stamp in your passport; for a fee of course ($10-$20). Obviously, everything will have to be done with cash unless you also have a CR bank account and corresponding debit/credit card, however, I understand that credit cards are not as readily accepted as other Carribean nations.
Anyone will correct me if I am wrong, but there are not any major wine growing regions in the world between 30 N and 30 S latitudes. There is not any local Costa Rican wine that I am aware of that is not made from grapes that come from elsewhere. The majority of the wine in the stores in CR is primarily from South America (Chile & Argentina)and secondarily from Europe.
Here, here Kimball! I look forward to see what the “regret factor” will be by the end of the year in the US as we become more and more socialist so that we are all “middle class” based on the governments definitions of the same. In my 45 short years on this planet, I have never seen such a revered executive who has really acomplshed nothing of substance, nor has he ever had a “real” career other than politics. Snow job of the century and we all get to pay for it dearly. Get out while you can.
Farm raised seafood never touches these lips. Farmed fish is terrible for the environment. They harvest other fish (pollock primarily) to make fish food pellets for the farmed fish which is excreted in mass into the ocean. So you kill a fish to feed fish that does not belong in its local environment.
The larger Prado is as close to the Sequoia you can get in CR. The Fortuner is like a 4Runner. Both of these are diesel, which I would be adamant about in a larger vehicle, or your gas budget will be 30-40% higher due to fuel cost + mileage difference. Hyundai and Mitsubishi also make larger SUV’s, but they ae a bit more difficult to find.
Edited on Jun 23, 2009 20:30
Ansolutely true, but that happened in Scotland was well over a century ago, primarily to build ships. Cornwall in England is the same way..devoid of tress for the most part thanks to Henry VIII. BC is by far the largest lumber producer in the western hemisphere and lumber is still a building necessity, but what disturbed me is clear cuts all the way to the streams and salt water, which is horrible erosion management and a fish killer. At least in the NW US,the loggers are required to leave a significant buffer, which also acts as a wildlife corridor and it is replanted 2:1 so it can be harvested again in only 30 years. For all our technology, Victoria still dumps raw sewage into the Straights of Juan De Fuca.
According to an article posted this morning on another site, ICE has approved 6 companies to provide some cell phone & internet competition. One of them appears to be a wireless internet company. Speed and technology can only improve in the coming years. I just purchased a Global Smart Phone and will see if the SIM chip works in CR this fall.
