psch's Comments (231)

“Oh, so just because there might be some people out there who would like to "see" Switzerland, the laws of Switzerland should be ignored by Google.

There are plenty of Swiss tourism websites, Wikipedia or your local Barnes & Nobles that will provide you with pictures and informative cultural text, so you don't just "see", but maybe also understand the country (any country for that matter) better.

As for Hotels...n­ot up for an adventure? Got to make sure Mac Donald's is half a block away?”

“Switzerland has it own laws and Google needs to abide by them. If you go to a foreign country and do something that they deem illegal, but e.g. the US does not, do you seriously expect that country to let you off the hook just because it's legal in the US (or your country of origin)? No of coarse not. The reverse is true too. Is that so hard to comprehend? It's not rocket science, just common sense.”

“I'm also one of those HSBC Master Card customers who never ever carries a balance, but received the rate hike notice.

What gets me the most is that the banks have the audacity to raise the rates for people who pay their balance every month. I find it completely insulting that they don't have the decency to give me a rate that is in line with my credit score. These rate hikes seem pre-emptive. Like vultures they are waiting for someone to fall into debt. All I can say is, I'm closing my account and they can go to h.e.l.l. I will not put up with these kinds of threats from my bank. If take-it or leave-it is their attitude towards a good customer then I won't put up with it.”

“Wow! Someone's definitely got his ba.lll.s" in a tight grip, and doubtful that it's his constituants. Just another thing to put on the list come re-election time. Maybe people should start running that clip in his district now.”

“Many of them are most probably not smart enough or too blinded/small minded to get the connection and hypocricy of their statements. Then there's a few who get it, don't care and use the fact that many don't get it or are blinded as a tool for manipulation.”

“How do you get the money from special interests out of the picture? What's the plan of action to get campaign finance reform without having to rely on the congress to wisen up on their own.”

“You've hit the nail on the head.

The latest set of credit card regulations also seems to be nothing but an attempt to pacify the public. As is indicative of the notice I just received from my bank, there is no meat behind the regulation. They say they are complying, but then comes the whopper. If you don't accept the rate hikes and other "gotcha" line items, then they close your credit card account. It doesn't matter that you've never carried a balance, hardly use the card and have a great credit score. They will punish you no matter what. So, how are those who have already been dupped have any hope of getting out of this mess, when those who are still above water can seen what tactics are being employed to drag us under as well.

This is not regulation, it's a complete sell-out. Like with the insurance industry and their recission practices - the moto being we'll take your money, but you get sick or protest the terms and conditions and we'll kick you to the curb.”

“Hold on to that for next round of elections as they come up for these guys.”

“Nice try. Michael Moore is at least using his money to make films for the common good, like highlighting corruption of the so-called capitalist system.

Your comment is a poor deflection tactic that Maria Bartiromo tried on Morning Joe today. How does the money MM makes, in any way compare to what the WS guys make in bonuses. These WS types have continuously shown that it's not for the common good, but instead pure self-interest, greed and power.

When are people going to stop swallowing the junk-news that tax-payers are going to profit from their investments via TARP. The only way the taxpayer is going to profit in the long-term is if there are serious domestic and global regulations put in place.”

“Agreed and let me add....

By being invested IRA's and 401Ks it also ties us to the system. So those who still own shares in various entities hold on for dear life, but how much say do we have? None really! Collectively, maybe a lot, but getting together collectively to tackle this is difficult, and the banks count on our inability to do that.

We all cling to the little remenants of investments that we have in the system and let the banks manipulate us into thinking that if we speak out against them, we'll have nothing left. But if this continues, less and less people will have a vested interest - even an imaginary one - in the system, the more difficult it's going to be for the manipulators.”

“Agreed. How does one reconcile the hyporacy of what they preach - being humble, giving, helping - when they in turn live in such pomp. Even their own nuns (experienced them in Africa) live these lives that I can look up to, but not when that life is displayed up against the image of the vatican. It just scream hipocracy.
To them all life is precious, hence their abstinence-only message. Yet it seems like they really only want a bigger and bigger population as a following to continue to pay for their maintenance bills. I really wonder what it takes to run that city, vs. how many people actually live there.”

“The bunch of them are so pathetic, it is beyond sad. They have absolutely no moral backbone. There seems to be so much rubbish in the senate, that it was hard to figure out where to start with the clean up come election time, but not anymore. In 2010, go vote for what you know to be right.

I wonder how many of them belong to the C-Street gang? Isn't Kyl the one who said: "I Don't Need Maternity Care In My Health Insurance", and Senator Stabenow cooly responded: "Your Mom Probably Did!". Their respect for women is in the gutter and it's so obvious. It makes them no better than the Afghani government when "Afghanistan passes 'barbaric' law diminishing women's rights"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/14/afghanistan-womens-rights-rape”

“I hope many people follow your lead. I'm lucky to live in a state that doesn't have these rotten eggs, though Lieberman is no cherry.”

“Nothing like a dose of uneducated fearmongering! Thanks!

Sure continue to be the laughing stock of the world when it gets to healthcare - a no-can-do society. If you need some fancy surgery, sure this is the place to come to, but only if you have a boat-load of money. Good luck to the 90-95% of the population, you're SOL.”

“Seems like Rockerfeller is right and has a timely example to support his assertion. Besides why should the pribe-pedd­ler/lobbie­sts be entitled to that priviledge?”

“No wonder people don't want to pay more taxes if this is this is the type of use of tax dollars the GOP continuously supports. They support subsidies for the big industries that keep consolidating and cutting jobs and apparently using tax dollars against the people who funded the subsidies, and tax breaks for the wealthy while the middle class who on the flip-side has to bail them out. Pathetic bunch!!”

“What happened to the attitude that was about "doing the right moral thing, no matter what it takes"? I seems to be only found in history books.”

“Your oversimplifying the situation, ones ability to get out of a bad situation. That logic could be applied to almost everything. Reckless driving, working in certain professions etc.

The moral compass is heading South at an alarming rate!!!”

“The people in the house and the senate need to understand that the majority of their constituents are regular non-lobbiest people. They need to remember who they represent and act in the interest of the people. Do they have the greatness to rise above the aspects of money, the money (aka.legal­ized bribes) that the lobbiest shove their way? There are some of the decent people, but not enough of them in government.”

“That's during regular parlimentary sessions. I'm sure there are times when the British PM addresses his government where they all sit on their mouths and listen for a change.”

“To many regulations have been removed by pressure/special interest groups, so yes the government is not as effective as it could be at the moment.

Now is the time to make sure that the government puts back regulations that curb these companies, but also make sure that consumer doesn't go crazy either. Elizabeth Warren from the TARP oversigtht has some good assessments and solutions.

What amazes me is how people so easily shift blame to everyone, but themselves. Now it's the governments fault for everything bad. But as citizens aren't you responsible for making sure your government functions well, protects where protection is needed? What? Not up to the task? All too difficult to figure out? So everyone resorts to whinning and pointing fingers - Great!!”

“"Dragon"? - once again the Swiss are too polite. Though the article is also very critical of Levi's motivations.
I have some choice words for her, but most of all, as a woman, I feel she is a complete embarassment and just drags all us women down. I don't see her accomplishments - having become govenor - as a women having broken the glass ceiling, but rather as a lesson that some people, even as dumb as she is, just get lucky. Now she's peddling someones agenda, because she's easy on the eye's, but let's not think for a moment she has any original ideas of her own. She a GOP-pawn.”

“Let me be one of those people, who pays a fortune (employer too) for a supposedly great insurance plan, to say that I can't wait to drop my insurance like a hot potato and move to a public option. I don't trust them. It started with all the little things they denied or don't cover. The insurer's excuses are always like following some mental labyrinth or maze with a big fat deadend. In the end you loose and you're out of pocket. They are croooooooooks.
I've experienced the Swiss healthcare system. Only private insurers operate there, but they are highly, hight regulated. At a minimum the US has to get to where the Swiss are. Though I would hope the US could do better than the Swiss, but that would take huges amounts of guts. Guts seems to be hard to come by these days.”

“What's really frightening is that she's in a position to influence. She displays no critical thinking abilities - just a party-line talking box.
Has she travelled to other countries and met with people to discuss healthcare, tax structures and regulations, to better understand the driving forces and how they got from A-B? I'm not saying this country needs to adopt the exact same healthcare structures as other countries (with the exception of the understanding that healthcare is a right and all should have access without going broke). But I just don't get the sense that she's informed and educated beyond the GOPs talking points.”

“Both of them have their quirks, though NF definitely scores highest on the arrogance scale. PK comes across more genuine, as really worring about how all the poor are going get through this all.
Ultimately, they will most probabaly both be right in some aspects and wrong in others. I do think the spending phase is important, but also where it's being spent, and ultimately having a solid/strong strategy to bring down the deficit.”