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Mista Magee said:
And it is obvious to everyone that "you are still blinded by your hatred" of any and everything that James and FWM has to say. I enjoy and appreciate reading their comments as much as, or more so than anyone else's. "I really do feel sorry for you" and your bitter attitude toward certain posters. You tend to spoil or sour the intent of the board. I have read every one of your posts which began just a few months ago when you were clamoring for advice, help, etc. Now you're the EXPERT, especially on every post that James or FWM makes.
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No, just pointing out they're hatred for anyone who is to the right of the political spectrum. "Teahadist"; seriously. James, just goes unsaid; if you read all his posts too you would see the obvious slant.

You can slam me for rebutting their obvious blindness, whether you have it too it isn't obvious like theirs. If your issue is with my posts, have issue with theirs; just a thought.

My 'clamouring' for advice was referring to financial/investments, not political/budget issues; which, I believe, I have been fairly straight forward about.

I am sorry I have offended you or your sensibilities, but my belief that we have a lot of issues with our government's fiscal problems and that they were not SOLELY CREATED BY THE GOB OR THE TEA PARTY (which is what they spout), creates the energy for my posts.

Have a Glorious Day !!
 
So my Freddie MAC stock falls from .33 cents to .28 cents a share. Seeing as I bought it when it was $5 a share, it's kind of late now for me to worry about Freddie Mac being down graded..... :-(
 
nnuut said:
S&P Downgrades Fannie, Freddie Credit Ratings
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According to Bloomberg reporting, there are many other things that S&P will downgrade as government owned instruments can't have a rating better than the parent.

Interesting, more pain to come?
 
RealMoneyIssues said:
According to Bloomberg reporting, there are many other things that S&P will downgrade as government owned instruments can't have a rating better than the parent.

Interesting, more pain to come?
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Because Uncle Sam is essentially the guarantor on Fannie and Freddie (maybe not technically but that is the perception) anything that affects Uncle's credit affects them. This effect is already rolled into the market downturn. For the great unwashed out there though this sounds really scary and the media reporting causes even more panic selling which causes even more panic selling. Answer is Probably!
 
Silverbird's Revised Financial News Headline: S&P Tries to Redeem Itself But Only Looks Like Captain Obvious
 
An intreesting factoid:

Now that the US is rated AA+, the 6-8 countries who remain rated AAA would be referred to by many as socialist countries. Does anyone here find that odd?
 
RealMoneyIssues said:
More reason to revolt and require that we install a socialist government, or communist if that doesn't work...
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I can certaily agree to the revolt if need be being a child of the 60's, but I stop short, and I am not suggesting, we install a government be it socialist or worst case communistic. My point was that maybe a modicum of socialism must have some benifit to a socitywhich I feel it does.
 
Here are the S&P rated "AAA" countries remaining:

(and , incidentialy, their ratings by the World Health Organization on Health Care. The U.S. rated 37th overall.

Canada -30
Denmark - 34
Finland - 31
France - 1
Germany - 25
Hong Kong- (12th when counted seperately from China)
Isle of Man -(not rated)
Liechtenstein-(not rated)
Netherlands - 17
Norway- 11
Singapore- 6
Sweden- 23
Switzerland- 20
United Kingdom- 18
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Note that every single one of them have very good national health care programs.

Every single one.

 
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HA HA! Which ones of those countries do you have personal experience with regarding the health care they provide? :notrust:

Legal prostitutes receive weekly "healthcare" and make 3 times my annual salary...................SO! :cheesy:

James48843 said:
Here are the S&P rated "AAA" countries remaining:



Note that every single one of them have very good national health care programs.

Every single one.

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Scrappy said:
HA HA! Which ones of those countries do you have personal experience with regarding the health care they provide? :notrust:
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Canada, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom.


(My sister is a nurse anesthesist in a major medical center in London, Ontario Canada. They don't normally have such a thing in Canada- it's new to them. My sister was trained here in the U.S. and moved to Ontario years ago to practice this speciality, which is in demand there as they just recently started having nurses do this in Canada).



And you?
 
WTF does other countries health care have to do with S&P ratings?

Scrappy said:
HA HA! Which ones of those countries do you have personal experience with regarding the health care they provide?
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James48843 said:
Canada, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

(My sister is a nurse anesthesist in a major medical center in London, Ontario Canada. They don't normally have such a thing in Canada- it's new to them. My sister was trained here in the U.S. and moved to Ontario years ago to practice this speciality, which is in demand there as they just recently started having nurses do this in Canada).

And you?
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RealMoneyIssues said:
Civilian or Military???
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James48843 said:
Some of both.
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Quite an interesting exchange. The original question was about "personal experience". Nothing against your sister but she isn't you. At least I don't think she is. I believe the question was intended to ask if you were ever the health care recipient under any of the mentioned countries' programs. If so did you have to use the program? If so what was you experience?

You never really answer any questions. At least since I have been on this MB. So how about you tell us what you do now, why you have personal knowledge of the great health care systems of "Canada, France, Germany and the United Kingdom" and where and when you did military service?

Inquiring minds would like to know. It would add to your credibility.

I myself have been a direct recipient of the UK NHS while in the US military at a remote location in Scotland. I suspect that some funds changed hands between the UK and US under the then current SOFA. I still have the card. I never tried to use it when I went back to the UK as a tourist. It would have been an interesting experiment to see if it still worked. Fortunately, I didn't get sick.

Let us have some details James zip code, how and when did you personally experience the mentioned countries health care systems?

When and where was this military service?

PO
 
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