Wow, there's no end to their stupidity. Just a question, when you talk to these people, do they drool? > [Original Message] > From: <Eternitytime1@xxxxxxx> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 5/7/2005 12:09:02 AM > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Big Pharma's competition > > > In a message dated 5/6/2005 11:00:19 PM Central Daylight Time, > aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > BTW, if Bush is being > exonerated for Social Security, who do the reds think is pushing for its > demise? > > > > > Hi, Andy, > I have not figured that one out, either...<wry look> I think they think the > world is out to get them. So, "the Universe"? All I know is that it is > NOT Bush or his administration (in their opinion). > > I'm just the messenger, remember. > > Lots of them have family members in nursing homes/long-term care facilities. > I had a meeting on Thursday with a person who is a member of the National > Hospice Association (we are going to be doing some workshops in conjunction > with her organization on writing/getting notarized advanced directives)--she > was talking about how the talk is that not only is Medicaid being reduced, but > Medicaire [which provides for many residents in long-term care > facilities--and, in fact, you cannot qualify for that unless your assets have been gone for > about three years [I think]] I'm sure it will be that nebulous 'world is > out to get me' when their grandmothers are put onto the street. (and, most > of the for-profit [esp] facilities won't have a qualm doing that--) > > And, the point is not so much that the Gates Foundation put up 10 million > dollars--but that the not-for-profit drug company even exists at all. > > Thinking about the new DNA testing you can have done regarding your ancestry > (it's a genealogy thing and I'll meet some people tomorrow who have either > had it done or who are involved in this new venture), > Marlena in Missouri > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html