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The Chinese are way better Capitalists then we are.

1. If they see a obstacle, they just ignore it and run it over.

2. What's yours, is them to copy it.

3. Humans are nothing more then cheap slaves.

4. More is More.

5. The great wall of China is build on bones, and they would build it again on bones if it would turn out a profit.

6. When you do business with the Chinese, you're fucked either way to turn it.

The best reference ever of the Chinese was in Deep Space 9: The Chinese where portraied by the Ferengi and their 'Rules of Acquisition'

Once you have their money ... never give it back.

Never pay more for an acquisition than you have to.

Never allow family to stand in the way of opportunity.

A man is only worth the sum of his possessions. (From Enterprise, episode "Acquisition"; sloppy script-writing, as rule 6 (see above) was already given in DS9)

Keep your ears open.

Small print leads to large risk.

Opportunity plus instinct equals profit.

Greed is eternal.

Anything worth doing is worth doing for money.

A deal is a deal ... until a better one comes along.

A contract is a contract is a contract (but only between Ferengi).

A Ferengi without profit is no Ferengi at all.

Satisfaction is not guaranteed.

Never place friendship above profit.

A wise man can hear profit in the wind.

Nothing is more important than your health--except for your money.

There's nothing more dangerous than an honest businessman.

Never make fun of a Ferengi's mother ... insult something he cares about instead.

It never hurts to suck up to the boss.

Peace is good for business.

War is good for business.

She can touch your lobes but never your latinum.

Profit is its own reward.

Never confuse wisdom with luck.

Expand, or die.

Don't trust a man wearing a better suit than your own.

The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife.

Never ask when you can take.

Good customers are as rare as latinum -- treasure them.

There is no substitute for success.

Free advice is seldom cheap.

Keep your lies consistent.

The riskier the road, the greater the profit.

Win or lose, there's always Hyperian beetle snuff.

Home is where the heart is ... but the stars are made of latinum.

Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies.

Beware of the Vulcan greed for knowledge.

The flimsier the product, the higher the price.

Never let the competition know what you're thinking.

Ask not what your profits can do for you, but what you can do for your profits.

Females and finances don't mix.

Enough ... is never enough.

Trust is the biggest liability of all.

Nature decays, but latinum lasts forever.

Sleep can interfere with profit. (DS9 season 2, episode 7 - "Rules of Acquisition")

Faith moves mountains ... of inventory.

There is no honour in poverty.

Dignity and an empty sack is worth the sack.

Treat people in your debt like family ... exploit them.

Never have sex with the boss's sister.

Always have sex with the boss.

You can't free a fish from water.

Everything is for sale, even friendship.

Even a blind man can recognize the glow of latinum.

Wives serve, brothers inherit.

Only fools pay retail.

There's nothing wrong with charity ... as long as it winds up in your pocket.

Even in the worst of times someone turns a profit.

Know your enemies ... but do business with them always.

Not even dishonesty can tarnish the shine of profit.

Let others keep their reputation. You keep their money.

Never cheat a Klingon ... unless you're sure you can get away with it.

It's always good business to know about new customers before they walk in the door.

The justification for profit is profit.

New customers are like razortoothed grubworms. They can be succulent, but sometimes they can bite back.

Employees are rungs on the ladder of success. Don't hesitate to step on them.

Never begin a negotiation on an empty stomach.

Always know what you're buying.

Beware the man who doesn't make time for oo-mox.

Latinum lasts longer than lust.

You can't buy fate.

Never be afraid to mislabel a product.

More is good ... all is better.

A wife is a luxury ... a smart accountant is a necessity.

A wealthy man can afford anything except a conscience.

Never allow doubt to tarnish your love of latinum.

When in doubt, lie.

Deep down everyone's a Ferengi.

No good deed ever goes unpunished.

[Quark's rule] When Morn leaves, it's all over.

Until this week, the lies about death panels were some of the worst spread by Sarah Palin and the Republicans to scare seniors about health care reform and the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Now there's a real death panel, and John Boehner is in charge -- it's the Republican legislative campaign to undermine the ACA. Boehner and the Republicans want to give our health care back to the insurance companies, kill strong consumer protections that end the worst insurance company abuses and sentence more than 30,000 Americans a year to death because they can't afford health insurance.

As one of the first acts of the 112th Congress, the Republicans plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act and all the benefits and consumer protections that are making a real difference in the lives of millions of Americans right now. What are they replacing it with? Nothing. They're referring that question to a bunch of committees that will deliberate for months and play political football with our lives and health. What does that really mean? It means letting the insurance companies off the hook so they can run roughshod over consumers and deny our care and jack up our rates whenever they please.

Here are some of the things that will happen in the real world if the Republicans are successful with repeal:

Seniors who received $250 checks from Medicare last year to help buy prescription drugs will have to return the money to the Treasury Department.

Seniors will lose the 50% discount on brand-name drugs when they have reached the "donut hole" of their prescription-drug plans - a benefit worth more than $12,500 over 10 years to those who qualify. Instead of closing over the next several years, the "donut hole" will stay open permanently.

Seniors will stop receiving no-cost annual physicals, mammograms and cancer screenings under rules that had just taken effect this week. Also, a voluntary program to enable seniors to live independently would be wiped out, forcing more people to crowd into nursing homes.

Millions of consumers, including children, will be denied coverage and care due to pre-existing conditions and branded "uninsurable." Health plans will go back to kicking young adults off their parents' coverage instead of providing benefits until age 26.

Many Americans with sick family members will be forced to file for bankruptcy protection when insurers restore lifetime and annual caps on benefits.

Health plan premiums will resume their double-digit increases as insurers return to grabbing however much they want from your premiums to pay for excessive profits, CEO pay, an army of lobbyists and a bureaucracy that turns away the sick. New programs to block unreasonable rate hikes would be dismantled.

Taxpayers would pay hundreds of billions of dollars in excessive fees to private health insurance companies that enroll seniors in Medicare Advantage plans at much higher costs than if the government provided benefits directly. The Medicare trust fund's projected solvency will give back the 10-year extension it got from the ACA.

You can see an excellent overview here of what we will lose if the ACA is repealed. You can also see the district-by-district impact of health reform here.

After a century of legislative and political combat, working families and small businesses finally won and ended the insurance companies' stranglehold over our health care. Naturally, Boehner wants to roll back the new health care law and let the health insurance companies resume their reign of terror. That's why Boehner and his band of corporate shills, including House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and a raft of presidential wannabes, have made repealing the law the Republican Party's top priority for 2011.

The Congress needs to fix the economy and create millions of jobs to put American back to work, but instead Cantor prefers to make bogus claims about an election mandate to repeal the health care law. Nevermind that 68% of Americans favor consumer protections such as allowing people under 26 to remain on their parents' plans, and 60% don't want health insurers to turn away sick people. Cantor isn't deterred by facts because his mission is partisan politics, not governing.

And so is this typically understated comment from Boehner:

"I believe that the health care bill that was enacted by the current Congress will kill jobs in America, ruin the best health care system in the world, and bankrupt our country... That means we have to do everything we can to try to repeal this bill and replace it with common sense reforms to bring down the cost of health care."

Wow. Sounds like the end of the world as we know it.

Boehner and his fellow Republican repeal-mongers dismiss economic projections they don't like, such as those showing that the ACA will create millions of new jobs, that the law now requires insurers to use a new minimum acceptable percentage of premium dollars for actual medical care instead of profits and bureaucracy, and that the ACA will reduce the federal budget deficit.

The Republicans are kowtowing to right-wing extremists, corporate executives and billionaire investors who secretly spent millions of dollars to help Republican election campaigns last fall, including deceptive ads attacking the health care law. Those deceptions continue still. The ACA protects consumers from the worst health insurance company abuses and provides seniors with better health care through the Medicare program.

Thankfully Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and the Democrats in the Senate will stop Boehner in his tracks. However, when you cut through the political hyperbole, the GOP's search-and-destroy mission is serious business. The repeal vote in the House scheduled for next week is part of an all-out assault on the new law in the Congress, the courts and state legislatures. And it's an assault with well-funded corporate sponsors.

Everyone already knows that the Republican Party is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the health insurance industry and other profit-hungry corporations. In case there was any doubt, the Republicans have begun hiring insurance and health care industry lobbyists for key positions on committees and members' staffs. So far, two health care industry lobbyists have joined the powerful House Energy & Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction over health care legislation. One of them was named staff director. In addition, a top lobbyist from the medical device industry has joined Boehner's staff as policy director, a post he will undoubtedly use to try to roll back the new tax on medical devices that is part of the ACA. Expect to see more hires like these.

If that picture isn't disturbing enough, look at the cynical demagoguery of GOP presidential hopefuls, like Fox News personality and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. Huckabee has been running TV commercials trashing the health care law and offering a petition to demand that Congress repeal it. It turns out that Huckabee hired a notorious scam artist to help him with the exploitative ad campaign, which is nothing more than a front to raise money. Three days after Think Progress reported about the scammer, Huckabee was forced to fire the guy. A few months ago, Huckabee, a Baptist minister with a pre-existing condition of his own, said it was OK for health insurance companies to turn their backs on people with pre-existing conditions. Like Boehner, he's the new face of the Republican Party on health care. He works for the insurance industry and other big corporations, not the rest of us.

The interests of middle class and working families are of no concern to Republican Party leaders. To them, it's just smart business to spend political capital on protecting the financial interests of the billionaires and big corporations who make up their base -- the "haves and the have-mores," as President George W. Bush famously described them.

And yet, these are the same Republicans who complain about having to wait a few weeks for their health benefits to take effect while they rush into the 112th Congress with a plan that will revive working families' fear of going bankrupt because of crushing medical expenses and of getting dropped from your insurance if you're sick.

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