The President needs to order a MASSIVE Computer Literacy and Ownership Initiative to Circumvent the

MSM Make it part of the stimulus package

Out of work IT folks could be hired to run the workshops

Each participant completing the course should receive a new bare bones laptop

Perhaps an XO $100 laptop but with more adult software and in an adult color

That would put 1000's of people to work building them (in the US)

Free Wireless broadband in EVERY city

This this would create a huge amount of jobs

And, most importantly, It would make TV news irrelevant (as it already is to us)

The MSM will ALWAYS be Right Wing Shills

It's time to make an end run around them

FREE THE PEOPLE'S MINDS!

do with it..

isn't handing out the contracts, we'll be saving bushels.

Isn't it nice when a government is run with accountability?

:eyes:

You do know that, for example Medicare averages 4% overhead for bureaucratic and administrative expenses, compared to the 17% average for private medical insurance?

I'm not saying that government intervention is the right answer in every case, but that it is possible for the government to run a tight ship in the things that we decide we want it to do.




#'s taken from:


http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=1623

http://masscare.org/health-care-costs/overhead-costs-of-health-care/

forks out every year?

Where are you getting your information?

--imm

....

Does not take a genious

see Medicare... for example

Or Tricare

Transportation
Boston "Big Dig" $2.6b (1985) $14.6b (2002)
Denver International Airport $1.7b (1989) $4.8b (1995)
Virginia "Mixing Bowl" $241m (1994) $676m (2003)
Seattle light rail system $1.7b (1996) $2.6b (2000)
Kennedy Center parking lot $28m (1998) $88m (2003)

Energy
Yucca mountain radioactive waste $6.3b (1992) $8.4b (2001)
Hanford nuclear fuels site $715m (1995) $1.6b (2001)
Idaho Falls nuclear fuels site $124m (1998) $273m (2001)
National ignition laser facility $2.1b (1995) $3.3b (2001)
Weldon Springs remedial action $358m (1989) $905m (2001)

Defense (per unit)
F/A-22 Raptor fighter $89m (1992) $248m (2002)
V-22 Osprey aircraft $23m (1987) $90m (2001)
RAH-66 Comanche helicopter $31m (2000) $52m (2002)
CH-47F cargo helicopter $8m (1998) $18m (2002)
SBIRS satellite system $732m (1998) $1.6b (2002)
Patriot advanced missile $4m (1995) $10m (2002)

Medicaid
Special hospital subsidy $100m (1987) $11b (1992)
Medicare
Part A (HI), cost in 1990 $9b (1965) $67b (1990)
Home care benefits, cost in 1993 $4b (1988) $10b (1993)
Other
1996 farm law (over seven years) $47b (1996) $118b (2002)
International Space Station $17b (1995) $30b (2002)

the operations overheard for Medicare is 4%, Tricare, which was partially privatized, is 6%

What is the average cost of your average medical insurance? 15%

You are lazy and repeating right wing talking points

Nothing wrong in it, even some very liberal folks get lazy from time to time and don't check on things like that

By the by, right now the economy needs the adrenalin anyway, so what's your beef?

And if you have a beef with government, then perhaps this is the wrong site for you. The government is the problem mantra will be applauded at free republic, but not here... just an FYI

And see something different for a change o enlightened one...

And BTW...nice sig line...enjoy your stay...

However one whould think that someone so steeped in chaos would laugh off the curse of greyface you wear along with name and your sig.

I need to find a better one for cynical.. :)

An excellent idea!

:applause:

:)

making high schools require IC³ certification for graduation?
Internet and Computing Core Certification
Wiki on IC³

Thanks, but no thanks

(all but 4 replies are on a different topic)

SUCKS!

access to other sources of information.

but too many here preferred turning my thread into a debate on govt efficiency at running programs

Thanks for your post

the private sector is very efficient at skimming off profits, even at the expense of the goods or services they are supposed to be providing.