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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

Welcome to 1933!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bobf" <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>

> yea, I know Lynda, it's terrible.  people just don't think through the 
> ramifications.  Right now, with a name , a hometown, and another similar 
> point of fact like a phone number or street address, I can pay around $300 
> and find out 'almost anything' on anyone.
>
> The first time I did a heavy check on a potential business partner it cost 
> almost ten times that amount and yielded less info than what the cheaper 
> prices bring today. Anything 'centralized' is easy, easy target and easy 
> money for the purveyors of information.
>
> Medical records contain everything from rape kits, to abortion reords, to 
> terminal illness,  to psych records. Maybe I should tell my shrink some of 
> the 'real' crazy sh*t; that way the next time some one checks me out , 
> they will be even more apprenhensive of me than they currently are when 
> they see my other available records.
>
> If someone is going money with me , I don't blame them for checking me 
> out-- I don't like it but it is part of the way things are, today.  You 
> can't do business with a stranger on a handshake, anymore,.  But, for a 
> g-d d*mn
> clerk in some facist gov't beauracry or corporate office to be able to 
> check out not only my credit, but also the result of my last prostate exam 
> by punching in a number is a real downer.
>
> I don't like any of this stuff, but there is no getting around it when 
> medical becomes centralized.  The government owns you there, especially 
> after they become evryone's HMO.   Unless you decide that in an emergency 
> you will let a family member die, there is no getting around not being 
> numbered.