Hi Dragan,

what would you like to see in this potential 'health system?'


>>>Not a citizen, a legal alien. You've heard of H-1B, haven't you?
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>>Once you come a citizen, if you choose to, you can vote for whomever you like into office. If that person get enough votes, you get the person you want. Isn't that how it suppose to work?
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>Yes. Meanwhile, taxed but not represented. A legal nowhere.
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>>>The other way around. Having a job entitles me to live here.
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>>Oh, really? I never heard of that entitlement. So, anyone can live here legally as long as they "work" here.
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>Not that simple, and not "anyone". Getting a job here was just one of the prerequisites.
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>>>Ever heard of H-4 visa?
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>>No. Are you allowed to get work with this? If so and she's not getting a fair consideration by employers, it looks like a good case for a law suite.
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>Against whom, the whole visa system? H-4 is "family member of a H-1B bearer, not eligible for employment", period. Can't even get a SSN. And then count the things you can't have if you don't have a SSN.
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>>>If i was a terrorist, I'd try to look like Al Capone - smooth shave, necktie, suit etc. I surely wouldn't wear a beard and have a strange namy on my driver's license.
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>>Maybe they think you're using reverse physcology.... :)
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>I saw a lady take less than two seconds to decide to pick the red hilighter and scrible an "S" on my boarding pass... which means "Search" - as I was told by the guy who did the search. I doubt she got that far in her mind to suspect me of reverse psychology...
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>The 20% of times when I didn't get searched was when I started using the print-your-boarding-pass machines :). The fact that I had the same card on me that was used to purchase the ticket online somehow places me below radar :).
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>>>In my language there's no word for curfew. There's only an expression "police hour". The last police which enforced it there was German, occupational. Maybe it ticks me off because of such connotations.
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>>Again, this sounds like "paranoia". :)
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>It's sensitivity. I know a city ordained curfew would have angered me to no end when I was that age.
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>>We are talkin about minors here. Parents set curfews for their childern all the time.
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>If you think of "when'll you be back", that's regular. And negotiable. Now even if I trusted my kid, I couldn't issue a special "by 1am tonight" reward even if I wanted to.
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>Well, I figure the kids who want to throw a nasty party will just have to extend it to 5am then... because they can't go home.
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>>You were not causing problems. But because of few thugs and "bad apples" a whole group of people must "suffer". Otherwise, the gov't may face critisims like "racist".
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>Judging by the local news and the pictures of the arrested and wanted, the criminal factor is an equal opportunity employer :). So, the city wouldn't be called racist. But then, I haven't heard people complain about this - and my remaining teenager is just 13 now, so I'll worry about that when the time comes. Who worries too early, worries twice.
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>>What would you like to change? Here you have more freedom then any other country in the world. To have drastic CHANGE, I guess you would have to amend the constition in a major way.
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>Two things come to mind: divorce money from politics (prefix both with "big"), and to have a health system.