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![]() Would help. Most congressmen are attorneys. Most attorneys are as tax literate as the greeter at your local Wal Mart.
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Pssst, this is your chance (maybe your last chance) to show that you’re not just a troll bot.
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I'm not an ideologue when it comes to the role of government. I think Republicans clearly are and i think the Bernie wing of the Democratic wing is, too, and I think they're both wrong. Common sense should tell us all there are things the free market does well and there are things the free market doesn't do well. Providing health care for elderly people or people with pre-existing medical problems is not one of the things the free market does well. Those people simply cannot be profitable to insurers in a free market system unless you charge them an onerous amount for health care. And, as you noted, in a moral and enlightened society we cannot allow people to die prematurely simply because they don't have the wealth to pay for the medicines and care they need. So, in this case, I think government is better equipped to provide universal health care to the populous than the free market, just as it's better equipped to provide infrastructure like roads and bridges. Republicans who tell you all government is evil and that the free market is some kind of magical talisman that does everything better are, A.) Ignoring plenty of empirical data about what the free market truly sucks at, and B.) Dooming their constituents to be enslaved by the excesses of free market profiteers. And as I said, the easiest gut check of it is simple: if universal health care is such a fiscal loser, why does every major industrialized nation have some form of it?
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"...But the larger point I want to emphasize here is that there is no serious person out there who would suggest somehow that you could even — you could even rig America’s elections, in part, because they are so decentralized and the numbers of votes involved. There is no evidence that that has happened in the past or that there are instances in which that will happen this time. ..." Partial text of President Obama's October 18, 2016 Speech ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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![]() Bernie Sanders’ campaign workers complaining, fleeing over ‘poverty wages’: report
'...According to a report, members of Sanders’ staff have been using the senator's own campaign rhetoric against him as they try to wrestle more pay from the self-described democratic socialist. In a letter to Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir, the campaign staffers claim they “cannot be expected to build the largest grassroots organizing program in American history while making poverty wages,” the Washington Post reported. “Given our campaign’s commitment to fighting for a living wage of at least $15.00 an hour,” the letter continues, “we believe it is only fair that the campaign would carry through this commitment to its own field team.” ...' ![]() https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ber...y-wages-report
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"...But the larger point I want to emphasize here is that there is no serious person out there who would suggest somehow that you could even — you could even rig America’s elections, in part, because they are so decentralized and the numbers of votes involved. There is no evidence that that has happened in the past or that there are instances in which that will happen this time. ..." Partial text of President Obama's October 18, 2016 Speech ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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In Canada the government only pays for 70% of the healthcare bill. Those that can afford insurance then purchase plans to cover the other 30%, drugs, dental and the eye doctor which is not covered in Canada from what I have read. Also in Canada, and in England, most see the doctor from a group made up of many doctors and do not see their preferred doctor unless they are willing to wait longer. Average wait time in Canada for non emergency issues is 14 weeks. I could not find anything defining an emergency issue. Before I am willing to jump on the band wagon for a single payer system I want to see the make up and just what is covered and what is not, and most importantly how a person would receive that care be it from a signal doctor or do you sign up for something like "Baycare" or WellMed" and get the next doctor from the list?
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![]() How deep is this haltered for the President? I have seen many articles just like this one and it really makes you wonder.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/colleg...n-racist-trump
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Trump has taken an issue most Americans would agree on -- deport illegal immigrants who are criminals (besides the crime of being in this country undocumented, of course) -- and bastardized it through his frothy hyperbole, rhetoric and misinformation about ALL immigrants. It's reached a point where you could show that quote to pretty much anybody today -- young or old, not just college students -- and they would likely assume it came from Trump because he's been hammering the topic for over three years now. Once they assume it's from Trump they will judge the quote based on their opinion of Trump. The real story here that Fox News either ignored or wasn't intelligent enough to recognize is that Trump's reckless and extreme use of hyperbole and misinformation in his tweets and campaign rally speeches has accelerated our country's political polarization and eliminated rational consideration by most Americans on issues he has hijacked to play to his followers. On so many of these issues, the two sides disagree but are close enough to find an acceptable middle ground. Trump has blown those issues way out of proportion and forced Congress, the military, and many others to devote greater attention to them. This, of course, reduces the amount of work that can be done on other important issues that we might have seen resolved today if Trump wasn't elected president. |
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