Princess Bride came out in 1987.

“Any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should 'have his head examined,'...

-- Secretary Robert Gates addressing West Point Cadets recently

• We spent 17.3% of our GDP on health care in 2009, up from 16.2% in 2008, an increase of 6.8%. LA Times
• That's about 2.5 trillion dollars.
• Which works out to very close to $8000 per capita.
• We spend approximately a trillion dollars more than the otherwise most expensive industrialized country would spend on health care using their system on our ( Read more... )