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Too much waste. First you've got to install all of these panels in a hostile environment which triples your cost, making it a total waste of time tostart with, not mention needing some way to transfer all of this energy two hundred and forty thousand miles which again makes it totally innefficient when you could erect them into a transparent Dyson sphere around the earth, as long as we're talking about this kind of scale. Then we could probably incorporate a way to control the weather and eliminate extreme weather.

Re: A ways back. You can't
forget that if Adam and eve had
obeyed and never ate of the fruit, man would still be naked, living like the animals.

I wonder what the history of precedents look like in comparison. I'm sure none of them quite look like forcing marathon-running fitness freaks to load up on insurance, but then, that should all be worked into the actuarial figures. It makes sense and with our budget and Medicare the way it is, it seems like it should be a go, but today I found out who comprises the majority, along with their appropriately fitting remarks. With the president being a lawyer, it seems like he inherently wouldn't overstep his authority, waste so many resources on such a landmark case that is looking like it is teetering ever so much on the precipice. Surely, cooler heads will prevail and see beyond the minutiae. We are forced to buy insurance (only those of us who live here), because every one of us ... simply must be accounted for in order to run an accurate and efficient risk pool. Does accuracy and efficiency usurp individual liberty? It should be a small price to pay in order to help right our nation' financial woes. Does that sound like a good enough reason to enforce an individual mandate? One would expect a lawyer to have it all prearranged, preapproved. When the president said that "he had spent too much political capital on that single issue." I wonder if he meant that it was a valid deal or a waste. I wonder if he has a wildcard up his sleeve. He has seemed overly confident, given the political makeup of the Justices, but something needed to be done.
Recent reports of it being overbudget sound ominous ...

How is health insurance any different than auto insurance? The more risks that people take, the higher their premiums are - some people drive too fast, some people smoke, some people don't pay attention to what they are doing while driving - get tickets, cause wrecks, some people don't pay attention to what they eat - get fat, cause health problems. Some people have these mental issues that can be a real problem - they get too worked up and bent out of shape and BAM! another car accident while others have these addictions or can't control their urges to splurge, I mean, the list just keeps going and going. What is the difference? One thing I do notice is that almost all of these politicians do get sick- heart disease from eating fat foods or smoking or doing steroids, same as everybody else. So it seems to me that this risk pool should be all*inclusive since we have established that everybody gets sick and if you can establish without a doubt that you don't get sick for whatever reasons, then your premiums should be lower, everything works out. Its a risk pool, it's the result of evolution, it makes sense. If something is not unconstitutional, then it's constitutional. It's aconstitutional.

One factor you have in the third world are the long arms of the church preaching against birth control and the countries with the highest birth rates are the countries least able to deal with it. You will find that the countries with the highest birth rates (around the Sahara) also tend to have the highest mortality rates, as well. I'm not sure about India, but China has incorporated a one child rule which essentially solves their problem.