QUOTE (MaxInfo @ Mar 26 2008, 11:17 PM)

How brain washed are you lunatic Republicans to say this non-sense that you say?
1st, IF you think Government cannot get anything right, then lets have the Military not run by the government either and have it be privately funded? And lets have the courts, the Police, the coast guard, etc. all be privately funded and not off of our Taxes.
2nd, EVERY civilized nation in this world by now has Universal health care, WHY can they get it right and our government is so corrupt that it cant get something as basic and as necessary as health care right?
3rd, US Dollar & economy are going down the toilet compared to Europeans who do have Universal health care, Universal education and other socialized services, as EVIDENT by US Dollar that has lost an amazing 50% vs Euro. HOW MUCH MORE evidence do you want that the European model where a few KEY industries are run on a socialized basis is better than the US model? You want US Dollar another 50% down vs Euro so Oil is $200 per barrel for us while it is still 50 Euros per barrel for them? So Trillions of Dollars more will leave US assets for Europe due to ever falling US Dollar?
You can read much more about all of this on my Blog here:
www.anoox.com/myblog/real_news
No brainwashing. Just research and listening to people who are subject to Universal Healthcare. But it's nice to know that anyone who disagrees with you...you consider brainwashed. Tolerance?
1st: Government running military? The Iraq War hasn't gone so well until now. You wanna rethink that?
Courts, police & Coast Guard? Who else could do that? We don't really have a choice.
Other than that, look at Social Security. For that matter, have you not heard about the problems the Veterans Administration is having? They have a backlog of Veterans and can't get them medical treatment. If the federal government can't handle the medical treatment of our military, what makes you think they can do any better with the Average Joe? Again, not brainwashing, just paying attention to the news and actually thinking about what it could mean to me if I was the one subject to their "treatment"
The majority of the things the federal government tries to do, they can't. Remember the bridge that collapsed last year? Then we found out the majority of bridges in the United States are in disrepair and may not be safe to use. And let's not forget Katrina. Not only was the disaster flubbed up by
all levels of government (starting with Chocolate City's Ray Nagin...idiot extraordinairre), but it all started with the Army Corps of Engineers who built the levy wrong in the first place.
So, you may have this deep faith in the federal government, but it's completely misguided. I work in the healthcare system as a biller. Medicare recipients have to get certain treatments & diagnostic procedures authorized. When I worked in ENT, one lady needed a PET Scan to check & make sure cancer hadn't spread. Medicare said no. The federal government is a big part of the problem with our healthcare system. They reject payments on services needed, and they deny certain procedures a patient needs. If you want to give the government power over your body and life like that, then by all means, move to Canada.
This isn't brainwashed Republican BS, this is real life experience.
2nd: The countries who DO have Universal Healthcare are having problems administrating it and granting healthcare to everyone. Some areas don't have enough doctors because of the constricting regulation by their government. Canada and Britain have severe problems.
And yes, our government is WAY to corrupt to handle something as important as healthcare.
Now, I assume you're in your 20s and not old enough to remember the early 90s when Hillary first tried to force government healthcare on us. If you paid attention then, you would know why it failed. She actually wanted to tell doctors where they could practice medicine! And, if you didn't like her form of medical care, too bad...you'd be in violation of the law if you tried to find a doctor & paid for it out of pocket. She wanted to do some scarey stuff.
3rd: Your argument that the dollar is falling because we lack socialized services is crap. We've had strong economies in the past without the nanny government and we'll have it again. The economy goes in cycles. Right now it's down. It will go back up again.
As for your barrels of oil... I'm not sure where you're getting those numbers, but it doesn't change the fact that in many places in Europe, they still pay $5 or more per gallon of gas. A lot of that is government regulation and taxes.
http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/global_gasprices/With all of this said, I hope that you have or get a 401K with any job you get (talk to human resources). Because Social Security won't be there for you & me. Yes, that's corrupt too. They don't have that money separate from the rest. They use it just like they use the rest of our taxes. Forget about that lock-box, it doesn't exist. There aren't enough of us to support the Baby-Boomers. So unless you think you can live on $300 per month, I suggest you prepare for retirement now. Otherwise, you'll only have yourself to blame. Social Security wasn't meant to be enough to live on anyway. Just a supplement.
I hope you're young. Otherwise, I can't figure out your idealistic utopian world. It doesn't and will never exist. It's just not realistic.