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Title: Budget Cuts Force Calif. Police And Firemen To Watch Man Drown
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URL Source: http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2 ... -man-drown-due-to-budget-cuts/
Published: Jun 1, 2011
Author: Stephen C. Webster
Post Date: 2011-06-01 15:54:24 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 150813
Comments: 179
Police and firemen in Alameda, California watched a man drown on Monday after realizing they did not have proper certifications for water rescue, leaving them open to possible lawsuits if they attempted to save him. The drowning victim, 53-year-old Raymond Zack, was apparently suicidal, according to a report from the scene. He waded out about 150 yards into cold waters off Crown Beach in Alameda and took about an hour to drown himself. A crowd of about 75 gathered to watch the bizarre scene, which saw police and firemen just standing at shoreline watching helplessly. After the man had drowned, authorities couldn’t even go into the surf to retrieve the body. They instead recruited a passer-by for the job. City officials reportedly blamed the incident on budget cuts and said they would have a discussion about why Alameda, an island city, does not have proper authorization to rescue people from the waters surrounding it. This video is from ABC 7 in San Francisco, Calif., broadcast May 30, 2011.
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#83. To: lucysmom, jwpegler (#66)
(stupid cunt)Okay, now we know what you don't want, how about telling us what you do want. He wants to not have to pay for a service he's not using, you stupid cunt.
Tag line: I wuz HACKED, cuz I SAY so!
Cover them with your money, not mine, you thief.
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And yet he admires Singapore's health care system in whigh government plays a significant role. * There are mandatory health savings accounts: “Individuals pre-save for medical expenses through mandatory deductions from their paychecks and employer contributions… Only approved categories of medical treatment can be paid for by deducting one’s Medisave account, for oneself, grandparents, parents, spouse or children: consultations with private practitioners for minor ailments must be paid from out-of-pocket cash…” * “The private healthcare system competes with the public healthcare, which helps contain prices in both directions. Private medical insurance is also available.” * Private healthcare providers are required to publish price lists to encourage comparison shopping. * The government pays for “basic healthcare services… subject to tight expenditure control.” Bottom line: The government pays 80% of “basic public healthcare services.” * Government plays a big role with contagious disease, and adds some paternalism on top: “Preventing diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tobacco-related illnesses by ensuring good health conditions takes a high priority.” * The government provides optional low-cost catatrophic health insurance, plus a safety net “subject to stringent means-testing.” * Almost all care is subject to significant co-pays. It is our responsibility to protect that child once that child’s born too. When we start debating a budget, let’s make sure we don’t cut 100,000 vaccines. Let’s make sure we’ve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that baby’s born, oh no, we don’t want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a women’s uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
Yeah if someone dies prematurely because of some medical condition that wasn't treated it is no "skin" off your back. F'em... Right?
(stupid cunt)That's an assumption on your part and you know what is said about that. You're a moron. Enjoy the collapse. And know that there are people who will cut your, and lucy's, throat for the food you have, when it comes. They will be the same ones who think they have a right to medical care you pay for, think they have a right to your food, or whatever else of yours they want. And were I to see it happening, I wouldn't lift a finger to stop it.
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If you're so fucking upset about it, you pay for them, you fucking thief.
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Did jwpegler appoint you to be his mouth piece?
It is our responsibility to protect that child once that child’s born too. When we start debating a budget, let’s make sure we don’t cut 100,000 vaccines. Let’s make sure we’ve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that baby’s born, oh no, we don’t want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a women’s uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
That might be you someday who is unfortunate to have some serious accident and run out of money and then can't afford treatment. Hope you have someone to help ya or else you too might be f****d
Did jwpegler appoint you to be his mouth piece? Fuck you! I said "He wants to not have to pay for a service he's not using, you stupid cunt." Any comment on that? Didn't think so.
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You fucking PRICK!!!! You have NO idea who I've helped, with how much money, in their times of need. It's THIEVES like you who DEMAND that money be stolen from OTHERS to pay for YOUR ideals that are RUINING this country. Again fuckhead, I say, if you want to help someone, DO IT WITH YOUR MONEY, NOT MINE!!
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I said "He wants to not have to pay for a service he's not using, you stupid cunt." Any comment on that? Didn't think so. It is our responsibility to protect that child once that child’s born too. When we start debating a budget, let’s make sure we don’t cut 100,000 vaccines. Let’s make sure we’ve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that baby’s born, oh no, we don’t want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a women’s uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
Stone, lucy's a cunt. She didn't call you in the first time (my post#83), but once I point out she's avoiding the question, all of a sudden she's insulted and calling you in. She's a cunt alright.
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THIS (#77 forward) is how you shut these fakes down.
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Never mind. Just found out you're as fake as they are. Please, continue to pretend to be arguing with lucysmom and NewJunky.
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Good. Now we know your interest isn't in adult debate but in using abusive language to shut down people you disagree with.
It is our responsibility to protect that child once that child’s born too. When we start debating a budget, let’s make sure we don’t cut 100,000 vaccines. Let’s make sure we’ve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that baby’s born, oh no, we don’t want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a women’s uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
Adult debate? From YOU??? FUCK YOU!!!!
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See Stone? Even though she's SO insulted and horrified by me that she has to ping you, she's still posting to me. She's a cunt, and evidently is into degradation. So basically, she wasn't pinging you to complain, but pinged you so you could watch her degradation. She evidently gets off on people watching it.
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No need to cally LM the C word. You may disagree with her, but I don't ever recall her calling her political opponents names like that.
CITY = government Yea so? Is it your claim that a PRIVATE company would have put the fire out for free?
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." Easy there...she's a very nice l;ady who likes ghost stories.
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." Thank you. Until this morning MD was the only name in my bozo filter.
It is our responsibility to protect that child once that child’s born too. When we start debating a budget, let’s make sure we don’t cut 100,000 vaccines. Let’s make sure we’ve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that baby’s born, oh no, we don’t want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a women’s uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
There is no magic about it. The overwhelming majority of people do whatever is needed to take care of themselves and their families. It's human nature. It is what enabled us as a species to crawl out of the caves, invent tools, and move ahead with our cars, planes, televisions, computers, iPhones and more. That's the bottom line.
ROTFLMAO!!!
Until this morning MD was the only name in my bozo filter. He sounds like another one of those Good Conservatives™ who hate the first amendment and 'think' women should give up the vote and not be able to own property.
In other words, limiting freedom to himself and his ilk.
It is our responsibility to protect that child once that child’s born too. When we start debating a budget, let’s make sure we don’t cut 100,000 vaccines. Let’s make sure we’ve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that baby’s born, oh no, we don’t want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a women’s uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
Yeah, I don't know what they are so scared of. Seeing big grown 'men' quivering like a bowl of jello every time they hear a little difference of opinion is a little disconcerting and more a tell on the future of this country than their constant rehashing of doomsday scenarios.
It is a limbic brain response that only knows flight or fight without thought or reason.
It is our responsibility to protect that child once that child’s born too. When we start debating a budget, let’s make sure we don’t cut 100,000 vaccines. Let’s make sure we’ve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that baby’s born, oh no, we don’t want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a women’s uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
Yet most profess to having served in the military which specifically teaches recruits how to deal with that response.
Oh my, are you suggesting...?
It is our responsibility to protect that child once that child’s born too. When we start debating a budget, let’s make sure we don’t cut 100,000 vaccines. Let’s make sure we’ve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that baby’s born, oh no, we don’t want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a women’s uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
I swear that whenever you two fat azzed gibbering morons get together the world actually gets DUMBER. You two gibbering libTURDS are incapable of even a semblance independent thought. You NEED the herd. YOU can't live without it. You certainly never have, have you?
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
So you think a system where the poor and the retired have no health care is a better one?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Singapore -------- So mandates are a good idea? Government forcing citizens to save and providing subsidies along with price regulation are good approaches? I thought you were a free market conservative, not a socialist?
"Thats because your basically and idiot." (war)Easy there...she's a very nice l;ady who likes ghost stories. The screen name lucysmom is a shill, and most likely male.
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A cunt's a cunt. I call em how I see em. lucysmom ran to you to get me banned. Not because of my language, but because she got bested and outed in our argument. She's a cunt. That's the truth. You are looking for the truth here, right?
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Know why they call that section between a woman's breasts and her hips a waist? Because you could easily fit another pair of tits in there! Who the fuck do you think you're intimidating? You sound like one of those dykes from NOW.
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I am telling you, she's a very nice lady,,,
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." So who's fault is that other than their own????
"I love the 45 caliber M1911, I respect the 9MM M9 Beretta but I only carry a CZ for my own personal protection". Quote courtesy of Lt Col John Dean Cooper, recognized as the Father of Modern Handgunning
I've told you by detailed opinion on this dozens of times before. You have some kind of severe memory loss. Is it Alzheimer's or just too many drugs from the 1960s???
Bingo, you win the prize.
Because you could easily fit another pair of tits in there! Who the fuck do you think you're intimidating? You sound like one of those dykes from NOW. Thanks for proving my point.
Not everyone is going to get into or stay in the middle class o. There are innumerable factors many of which are beyond their control that could put them in that position. One possible scenario is that someone has a car accident that disables them temporarily (or permanantly) they lose their job and lose their coverage and then can no longer afford insurance. In regards to the elderly most people live from pay check to pay check and couldn't possibly save enough money to pay for health insurance in their retirement years. Not that in a "free" market an insurance company would want to cover the elderly. But if health care were like any other "service" it wouldn't matter if it were affordable or not. But unfortunately lacking it can mean life or death.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest(jwpegler) Nope, I just don't want to have to pay for a service (government monopoly schools) that don't work and have failed the country and our children.
#84. To: NewsJunky (#81)
I am sure it will be no problem covering those 50 million who are uninsured magically with the wave of a "free" market hand.
#85. To: NewsJunky, jwpegler (#78)
The current private system has failed with 50 million uninsured. I guess you want to add to it by getting rid of the government's role.
#86. To: Wood_Chopper (#84)
Cover them with your money, not mine, you thief.
#87. To: lucysmom (#82)
(me) See lucysmom, once those paying for you freeloaders quit paying, you're fucked.
#88. To: NewsJunky (#86)
Yeah if someone dies prematurely because of some medical condition that wasn't treated it is no "skin" off your back. F'em... Right?
#89. To: Wood_Chopper, jwpegler, A K A Stone (#83)
He wants to not have to pay for a service he's not using, you stupid cunt.
#90. To: Wood_Chopper (#88)
f you're so fucking upset about it, you pay for them, you fucking thief.
#91. To: lucysmom (#89)
He wants to not have to pay for a service he's not using, you stupid cunt.
#92. To: NewsJunky (#90)
That might be you someday who is unfortunate to have some serious accident and run out of money and then can't afford treatment. Hope you have someone to help ya or else you too might be f****d
#93. To: Wood_Chopper, A K A Stone (#91)
Fuck you!
#94. To: lucysmom, A K A Stone (#93)
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#95. To: jwpegler (#94)
#96. To: jwpegler (#95)
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#97. To: Wood_Chopper (#95)
THIS (#77 forward) is how you shut these fakes down.
#98. To: lucysmom (#97)
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Good. Now we know your interest isn't in adult debate but in using abusive language to shut down people you disagree with.
#99. To: lucysmom, A K A Stone (#97)
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#100. To: Wood_Chopper, Lucysmom (#91)
#101. To: jwpegler (#53)
The city of South Fulton, Tennessee offers residents of nearby areas the protection of its fire department for $75 a year...
--GW Bush
#102. To: Wood_Chopper (#99)
She's a cunt, and evidently is into degradation.
--GW Bush
#103. To: war (#102)
Easy there...she's a very nice l;ady who likes ghost stories.
#104. To: NewsJunky (#81)
(Edited)
magically with the wave of a "free" market hand
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#105. To: Wood_Chopper (#83)
He wants to not have to pay for a service he's not using, you stupid cunt.
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#106. To: lucysmom (#103)
Thank you.
#107. To: mininggold (#106)
He sounds like another one of those Good Conservatives™ who hate the first amendment and 'think' women should give up the vote and not be able to own property.
#108. To: lucysmom (#107)
In other words, limiting freedom to himself and his ilk.
#109. To: mininggold (#108)
Seeing big grown 'men' quivering like a bowl of jello every time they hear a little difference of opinion is a little disconcerting and more a tell on the future of this country than their constant rehashing of doomsday scenarios.
#110. To: lucysmom (#109)
It is a limbic brain response that only knows flight or fight without thought or reason.
#111. To: mininggold (#110)
Yet most profess to having served in the military which specifically teaches recruits how to deal with that response.
#112. To: lucysmom, mininggold (#111)
#113. To: jwpegler (#104)
There is no magic about it. The overwhelming majority of people do whatever is needed to take care of themselves and their families.
#114. To: jwpegler (#58)
Singapore's health care system promotes individual choice and responsibility. The U.S. system promotes dependency on one's employer and/or the government. This is the problem.
Singapore has a universal healthcare system where government ensures affordability, largely through compulsory savings and price controls, while the private sector provides most care.
Singapore's system uses a combination of compulsory savings from payroll deductions (funded by both employers and workers) a nationalized catastrophic health insurance plan, and government subsidies, as well as "actively regulating the supply and prices of healthcare services in the country" to keep costs in check;
Badeye posted on 2011-04-29 10:30:22 ET
#115. To: war (#102)
(me) She's a cunt, and evidently is into degradation.
#116. To: A K A Stone (#100)
(Edited)
No need to cally LM the C word.
#117. To: mininggold (#106)
He sounds like another one of those Good Conservatives™ who hate the first amendment and 'think' women should give up the vote and not be able to own property.
#118. To: Wood_Chopper (#115)
--GW Bush
#119. To: NewsJunky (#113)
So you think a system where the poor and the retired have no health care is a better one?
#120. To: go65 (#114)
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#121. To: CZ82 (#119)
So who's fault is that other than their own????
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#122. To: Wood_Chopper (#117)
Know why they call that section between a woman's breasts and her hips a waist?
#123. To: CZ82 (#119)
So who's fault is that other than their own????
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