Again, as if the 3000 killed in WTC wasn't enough, it changed the way we live. From jamming up airport security to the Patriot Act to cultural strife with Muslims...we went into Afghan because we had to. You downplay the significance of that event in your zeal to sell socialism, etc.
Yes, we sent out socialized army onto Afghanistan... for what? To eliminate the taliban for harboring Al Queda... and to get Bin Laden...
And when it looked like we Had the guy trapped, YOUR GUYS decided to divert resources to Iraq...
They dod not WANT to get bin laden and spoil their grab for Iraqi oil, and their planned 20 billion dollar giveaway to the company the VP owned stock in.
Quit being such a douchebag and blathering with that phony, inappropriate comparison between defense and healthcare.
Yeah, I am sure you would prefer to not have your imbecilic worldview upset with the facts and the truth.
Public monies pay for our defense, our roads, our water and sewage systems.
The idea that insurance companies- who have NOTHING to do with healthcare, should be allowed to take 30% off the top is idiotic... hey everyone, Let's ADD 30% to the cost of the things that will save your life, AND hand control over whether you get access to those things to a company incentivized to increase their profits by Denying you those services.
YEah that makes sense.
Listen, you silly tool, the companies that make the mail sorting equipment the USPS uses , and the little jeeps they drive around, and even the leather bags they carry mail in, ALL make a profit because they sell the government the TOOLS to provide that service.
Just as the Defense contractors make money selling the government the military hardware they need.
How STUPID would it be to put a row of middlemen between Lockheed and the DOD, just so these middlemen can ADD cost for NO service rendered.
The Same thing that works for the Army and the Post office would work in health insurance... All the REAL contributors, the Doctors, the equipment manufacturers would get a profit from selling the goods to the government... the only thing we WOULDN'T be doing is paying a bunch of jackasses to tell you you your policy is canceled after 20 years of premiums because you actually got sick.
Can you misuse the post office?
Can you misuse or exploit the Sanitation system?
Can you misuse or exploit water delivery?
y'know, the quickest way to find out would be to privatize them, cause if you CAN misuse something, it will be done for MONEY.
Really... how stupid are you? You don't think the safety of your drinking water is paramount? Your government is not interested in making a Profit on purifying your water... so there is no Incentive to cut corners, to NOT replace worn equipment, no incentive to buy the cheap stuff that doesn't really filter out the contaminants and then falsify the purity tests...
AND no one driving a Bentley because he can charge you thru the nose because you HAVE to have water to live.
No - these services are delivered, and you pay per usage. If you don't pay your water bill, or you don't put a stamp on your envelope - you don't get water and you don't get mail delivered.
Okay- see here, this just proves you have no functioning intellect whatsoever.
Guess what, braniac? You pay for ALL government services. You pay for the highways in a tax on your gasoline, you pay for the military thru a tax on your income, you pay for local parks in a sales Tax... HOW you pay is based upon whether your usage can be metered.
EVERYONE pays for sewer , who is hooked up to the sewer.
And they meter your water for you.
But the key is that the government's ONLY incentive is public service. No one in the water district is gonna get a bonus for figuring out how to SCREW the ratepayers.
And guess what? Social Security is PAID FOR... they took it out of your check, remember?
And Government healthcare would be exactly the same... We would ALL pay for insurance...
every working american, paying a tax for it...
And the result would be that Rates would PLUMMET... because even the young and healthy would be paying for insurance.
And like with the mail, like with the water... there is no incentive to do anything but serve the public good.
What greater example of serving public good is there than tending to the ill and infirm?
It is IMMORAL for anyone to make any more profit from these services than is absolutely necessary.
Phizer sells the same medication in Europe for one third what US citizens pay... and makes a PROFIT.
Only here in the US has private health care resulted in Phizer getting YOUR congressmen to allow them to fuck every single one of us for three times as much as they actually need to turn a profit.
Are you fucking kidding me? I don't even have the patience to get into this with you again
you mean you don't have any actual supported argument.
and who took credit for the internet and the tech boom? Clinton and Gore.
you really are a right wing zombie, aren't you?
The tech boom was REAL... a REAL economy selling REAL goods and services.... it was not a manipulation of the market.
What we GOT out of it was the world wide Web and an entire new paradigm for doing business online.
That is real and has real lasting economic value and real productivity.
The BUBBLE was NOT caused by Clinton nor Gore, but by Bush Senior and Reagan Deregulating the process of IPO... and deregulating the market.
the BUST was caused by morons like you, playing fast and loose with the rules, and betting that anything with DotCOM after its name would go up in value long enough for them to make a killing.
Charlatans putting together internet companies that had NO revenue model... and selling their stock to idiots like you.
Sorry- it once again can be traced back to conservative economic agendas...
And, really, Dude... CLinton does not get a pass from me... in his second term he allowed you right wing dipthongs to pass a LOT of that free market idiocy.
Because it was on the brink of collapse - it was the only choice they had at the time.
Funny how the market never got anywhere near the brink of collapse when it was properly regulated, huh?
