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 couldnt 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.
Your utopia is reaching its inevitable conclusion. An example? Now that food stamps are needed by more people, food stamp money is being cut.
See lucysmom, once those paying for you freeloaders quit paying, you're fucked. And it is happening now. In more and more places, and more and more often.
Government accounts for about 50% of health care dollars spent today and regulates 100%.
So you take away government subsidies from the poor and elderly putting millions of people into uninsured category you are going to suddenly lower costs AND cover all those people?
See lucysmom, once those paying for you freeloaders quit paying, you're fucked.
That's an assumption on your part and you know what is said about that.
It is our responsibility to protect that child once that childs born too. When we start debating a budget, lets make sure we dont cut 100,000 vaccines. Lets make sure weve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that babys born, oh no, we dont want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a womens uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
(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.
(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.
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.
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 ones 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 childs born too. When we start debating a budget, lets make sure we dont cut 100,000 vaccines. Lets make sure weve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that babys born, oh no, we dont want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a womens uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
(me) See lucysmom, once those paying for you freeloaders quit paying, you're fucked.
(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.
#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.
Did jwpegler appoint you to be his mouth piece?
It is our responsibility to protect that child once that childs born too. When we start debating a budget, lets make sure we dont cut 100,000 vaccines. Lets make sure weve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that babys born, oh no, we dont want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a womens uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
f you're so fucking upset about it, you pay for them, you fucking thief.
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
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
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!!
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 childs born too. When we start debating a budget, lets make sure we dont cut 100,000 vaccines. Lets make sure weve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that babys born, oh no, we dont want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a womens uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
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.
THIS (#77 forward) is how you shut these fakes down.
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 childs born too. When we start debating a budget, lets make sure we dont cut 100,000 vaccines. Lets make sure weve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that babys born, oh no, we dont want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a womens uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
Easy there...she's a very nice l;ady who likes ghost stories.
Thank you.
Until this morning MD was the only name in my bozo filter.
It is our responsibility to protect that child once that childs born too. When we start debating a budget, lets make sure we dont cut 100,000 vaccines. Lets make sure weve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that babys born, oh no, we dont want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a womens 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.
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
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.
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 childs born too. When we start debating a budget, lets make sure we dont cut 100,000 vaccines. Lets make sure weve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that babys born, oh no, we dont want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a womens uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
In other words, limiting freedom to himself and his ilk.
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.
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 childs born too. When we start debating a budget, lets make sure we dont cut 100,000 vaccines. Lets make sure weve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that babys born, oh no, we dont want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a womens 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 childs born too. When we start debating a budget, lets make sure we dont cut 100,000 vaccines. Lets make sure weve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that babys born, oh no, we dont want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a womens 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.
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.
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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;
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." Badeye posted on 2011-04-29 10:30:22 ET