Weird, this place was never mentioned in the Thrive Report

1. Welcome to South Dakota, where your feudalistic dreams can come true. Live like kings and queens and become lords over as many as 19 separate tenant properties. Have your children frolic in playrooms, which would have the envy of any true Willie Wonka. The queen mom can live with you too, and foreign domestics can reside with you to fulfill your own curiosity and jester needs.

   It is only possible in South Dakota…… “Great Feudalism, Great Places”………..

2. Hmmm. I wonder why our healthcare system is so fucked up.

3. LJL, exactly! I believe they call it a “for profit” healthcare system in America. I guess we now know where some of that profit is going, huh?

   But Cuba’s healthcare system is not “for profit,” yet that much poorer county was called upon to help with the Ebola crisis a couple of years ago. So what gives?

   Oh yah, I forgot. Our system still as many curative qualities about it, which fit better into a “for profit” model, although more expensive yet impressive – while Cuba has a more preventative and dull system, which is an unique quality to us in America. And we all need to remember this, as the Republicans try to move us not only from ObamaCare to TrumpCare, but also backwards towards a more expensive curatively dominated healthcare system once again…..

4. When I was going to HS in a suburb of Seattle in the late 80’s, I went to a unique public school. Mariner High was very diverse, not just in race but in economic status. It wasn’t anything like SF where open enrollment lets the white kids go to white schools and the minority kids go to the minority schools. I went to school with many kids I thought were ‘spoiled’ rich kids. There was this girl in my art class who kind of had a crush on me, and I asked her out one time, and she said she couldn’t go out with me because if her dad saw me pick her up in my 1965 Dart she might get in trouble. She lived on this island in the Pugent Sound that you could only get there by ferry (yeah, she had to ride to school each day on a ferry before the school bus picked her up). I asked her what her dad did, she said “He plays golf.” I was like, oh a professional golfer? She said NO, he owns a software company, but he never goes to the office. Then there was my BFF’s girlfriend who lived in this mega mansion, her dad was a scientist for the Feds and had a lab in the basement with this crazy James Bond door you couldn’t get into. We thought she was kind of spoiled because she had a TV room with an actual ‘Big Screen TV’ before you could buy Big Screen TV’s without taking a 2nd mortgage on your house. And I’m not talking about one of those chintze projectors from the ceiling. Then there was our friend James who was addicted to stripper trading cards. We thought he was kind of spoiled because his dad was an international pilot who was an investor with a pipe organ company. When his dad wasn’t flying he was at home in his robe building pipe organs in their massive living room, in fact they had a three story pipe organ in the living room. The plot of land their house was built on was a small forrest that was so large we would often camp on the weekends in the yard, until of course we drank a 25 year old bottle of his dad’s scotch. We didn’t see much of James after that. The moral of the story is I thought I knew a lot of spoiled kids growing up in Lynwood, but after watching this video, I think these kids have my old friends beat.

5. All of this indicative of why I partially support a return of the military draft. Accept that the draft should be from the top down, where your odds of being drafted are greater as your parents’ AGI goes up. I know it would never happen, but I bet it would put a quick end to the continual war, however….

   And America needs a Marshall Plan to revitalize the middle class and a tax structure which severely restricts major wealth accumulation by the super rich and even the growing upper income sector. This Plan needs to be payed not by adding to the deficit, rather by taxing the rich even more…..

   Hey, don’t laugh, we all have our own lengthy Christmas list, don’t we?

6. Emoluments Clause points out why we will never fix our fucked up health care decision. He’s the opposite side of the problem. The side that can’t get over we are not a socialist society and cant see that government involvement has always made problems worse.

   Remember when the government paid for very little and the family doctor lived down the street in a normal house and didn’t overcharge for everything, just because the government would pay for it.

   Avera is not building a billion dollar body part replacement facility because it’s needed. It’s due to fact that medicare isn’t asking questions and cutting the checks.

   Governments like Cuba make sure the gap between the haves and have nots are accepted through propaganda that folks like Emoluments Clause believe.

7. Weird, I feel like I am sitting between Plato and Socrates, or is it a can of Play Doe and a Sock Monkey?

8. OH…. and lets not forget to point out how Mrs. Baumgarter brings home the bacon in this “open market” system of housing that government doesn’t have enough manipulation in.

   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/poverty-politics-and-profit/

   I’m sure more government will fix everything comrade.

9. LJL,

   If we place a greater emphasis upon preventive medicine, then the need for the “body part replacement facility” will be greatly lessened.

   And the world of medicine which you opine for was a time when doctors recommended Camels too.

   As far as Cuba, its limited resources more than any political doctrine caused them to default to an intense preventive system – a system that is superior to its curative alternative regardless of what type of political system promotes it.

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