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Of course we all pay, and the NHS is not a business and does not make a profit. You are getting the idea.

https://www.william-russell.com/blog/health-insurance-usa-cost/

No it is not naive. The NHS does not generate a balance sheet, profit, nor pay out dividends like a business. Simple fact, even if it does confuse and upset the free-market neo-liberals! :ROFLMAO: Wasteful? What, having a healthy population? You say no one cares? Very strange.

Certainly hope so! https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/the-budget-reeves-dodges-tough-calls-to-calm-city

If you can't see it yourself maybe you should just stop worrying about these things and do something more useful with your spare time? Ever thought of doing some woodwork, or a bit of gardening?

Well yes we have been lulled into accepting these extremes of wealth distribution, but the weird thing is how many are happy to defend it even when they themselves are seriously disadvantaged. Some common sense here from what used to be "The Daily Worker"...

NHS should have been 100% state run without concessions to the private sector. Yes and Americans are attempting to screw profits from the NHS and in the process can only reduce quality down to USA levels, but increase costs/profits. What, paying management more would make it more efficient? I...

It's much more efficient and cost effective than e.g. USA public health services. In fact before the various right wing attacks on state enterprises the NHS was regarded as a miracle of low cost management and high efficiency. Needs higher investment in training/education and higher wages...

The NHS is not a business, it's a non-profit making public service. If on the other hand a monetary value was to be put on public health the NHS could only be seen as astronomically profitable and worth every penny. This is the fundamental weakness of the naive neoliberal economic theories -...

Throughout these threads the unwoke have consistently repeated the idea that being on benefits is a lifestyle choice and nobody's fault but their own. Were your mates an exception to this rule, or were they slackers and should they have tried harder? Voluntary wage cuts? Longer hours? You...

They are probably better off out of it and looking for better jobs with better companies. In the meantime they will have the benefit of our marvellously generous over-funded welfare system! They'll just have to make it clear that it isn't a lifestyle choice, as it is for all the other...

Tax increases are inevitable after 14 years* of failed austerity. Who do think should bear the largest burden? *45 years if you count back to Thatcher.

Well if they were that much on the edge it's probably doing them a favour to push them over. If, even after 14 years of pro business tory govt, they still can't hack it, then early retirement is probably best option. Sorting out the sheep from the goats?

Are you saying that this is biased or unbiased? Looks fairly straight to me. Al Jazeera has to be fairly honest to avoid accusations of bias, as it is not a pro Israeli propaganda rag. What point are you trying to make?

Triggering "the stupidity of the herd", as @mudman suggested earlier.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/30/trump-threats-election-enemy-within

Yes he puts on a good show. Cringemaking but hilarious. I'm wondering about orangeing up for halloween.

What did they do about it? What exactly did they refuse to accept? How would you refuse to accept it? I thought brexit was a grotesque mistake but I didn't "refuse to accept it" in any particular way.

Exactly I've been wondering about our un-woke in general, following the rage they got themselves into about Wikipedia, Snopes, and others. As though opening your eyes or "fact checking" in a discussion is somehow cheating and anyway all sources are probably part of a conspiracy . :oops: I can...

Or the stupidity of the herd. Look it up.