He is your commander in chief as well, "Dagny". Get over it.

Moose Drool is intentional. And pretty good...

It's called statistics. It's how premiums are determined for car insurance, health care, life insurance etc. It is impossible to charge for the unknowns.

Not if they have lived healthy. A healthy 60 year old can expect to be active for another 15-20 years at least.

With your obvious stress levels you won't live past 70 anyway. Retire and give a low life welfare sapping dummy a job.

Excellent discussion of a difficult problem. No one is suggesting old people be put to death, but allowed to die in peace when they choose to do so. Every day we overtreat frail elderly patients because of a total lack of concern for their desires, or due to family guilt. We need to love enough to allow a rational choi...more

someone is really pathetic. Romney's 47% includes a substantial number of disabled, and elderly living near the poverty line on SS, but most are WORKING POOR who receive tax advantages to motivate them to keep working. Tax advantages that became law to make tax cuts for the wealthy more palatable. Think about what the ...more

The auto world is global. Get over it. Honda, Subaru, Toyota all made in American plants by American workers of globally sourced parts. Ford Focus? Cadillac SRX? Great cars made by American manufacturers. In Mexico. Chrysler minivan perhaps? Try Canada.

Not sure what scam you are talking about. Medicare offers excellent coverage at a fair price, with administrative overhead that is about half that of a for-profit private. There are rules certainly, but the privates are far more aggressive at denying care.  By the way, I'm a 65 year old semi-retired internal medicine s...more