--- Mervyn Lobo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mario, > The real problem is that you refuse to accept, not > understand, the Queens position in Canada. > Mario replies: > The real problem is that I refuse to accept your spin, and revert to the fact that Canadians have chosen this elderly foreign lady and her family to be the Canadian Head-of-State. > Mervyn writes: > > As a socialist country, we impose a 50% tax on > petroleum products. The tax is used to fuel Canada's > envious health care system. Speaking in Toronto > yesterday, Bill Clinton called the US health care > system "insane." See below. > Mario responds: > This is more political spin. Your health system is adequate for a socialist country, hardly envious. > As recently as last year Canadians were begging the government to be allowed to buy private health insurance. Imagine having to beg one's government to be able to buy private health insurance! > Why would anyone want to PAY for private insurance if the FREE system was so "envious"? In 1994 Hillary Clinton tried to sell the Canadian type of system in the US, and, as a result, the Democrats lost both houses of the Legislature for the first time in 40 years, and have been unable to win even one of these back since then. Canadians are coming across the border for serious medical procedures because of the waiting list in Canada. > The fact is that Canadian gas prices have consistently been much higher than US gasoline prices. > Mervyn writes: > > Hugo Chavez faces an election within the year. His > current approval rating is 61%. I need not mention > that George Bush's approval rating is 29%. > Mario responds: > Actually, Hugo Chavez has a 100% approval rating, just like his friend, Fidel Castro. Like Fidel, he will win a landslide electoral victory running against himself, with hapless Jimmy Carter, who never saw a dictator he did not approve of, certifying the results:-)) > Mervyn writes: > > DUH! Restricting supply, sends the price of oil and > profits up. Is this difficult to understand? > Mario responds: > In the US, as ONE of a co-equal THREE part government with a free market economic system, President Bush has no way to restrict any oil supplies. In fact, if you followed American politics, you would know that he has been trying to encourage drilling in Alaska, but the Legislature has not gone along due to pressure from environmentalists. > Restricting supplies to increase profits, huh? I wonder why no one else has thought of that? Ingenious. Why do businesses have sales, increase production, outsource, insource, import, export, when all they have to do is sit back and make more money by selling less? > Mervyn writes: > > Both men have a long history of having the major > part of their portfolios in oil. There is no > trustee in the world who will take this info and > use it to invest in, say, the dot com sector. > Mario replies: > That would not be a very good trustee since the profitability of some dot com companies are far higher than the oil companies. EXXON had profits of 19 billion over the last 6 months. Assuming the same level of sales as EXXON, Google would have had 85 billion. According to your theory, Google must be restricting their sales! DUH! > Besides, you have no way of knowing what they invested in. They are both oil men so it doesn't take genius to speculate that they may have invested in oil stocks. Second, they have not invested their own money since 2000. As recently as 2003 the price of a barrel of crude oil was less than half of what it is now. I thought everyone knew that. > Mervyn writes: > > Hugo Chavez supplies all of America with cheap gas. > Mario replies: > If you followed American business, you would know that he doesn't. I have two CITGO gas stations near by. Their prices are about the same as the BP and Sunoco and EXXON gas stations. I must tell them you said that Big Hugo is supposed to be supplying me with cheap gas:-)) >
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