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4 points

The thing about universal health care, is that it's definitely not free. The money for it has to come from somewhere, and that of course is from taxes... and as Government involvement in the health care industry has only made things worse overall and not better, I don't see how it's possible that 1) giving them even more power will make anything better, and 2) that it's justified to implement this policy at the expense of both the sick and the healthy. If someone chooses to eat sugar-frosted sugar lumps for breakfast and drink bladder-busting bottles of cola, every day until they get severe diabetes, why should everyone else have to pay for their treatment? Takes away an incentive to choose a healthy lifestyle.

The system as it stands now is no good at all, largely because of Government involvement. It seems to me that the Insurance/Pharmaceutical industries have penetrated Congress with their lobbyists to such an extent as to get regulatory laws passed that stifle fair competition, giving them the advantage of a cartel. They don't need to lower prices like they would in a true free market, thanks to Uncle Sam's help... that's the system we should be fighting against, not trusting those who caused the problem to have universal control over 'fixing' it.

5 points

I ask, where does this "right" derive from? If health care is a right, why not food, or housing too? I mean, if a right is something that the Government grants us, then what stops them from revoking that right when they don't feel like granting it any longer?

For example, even the Soviet Union had a Constitution, wherein the Government granted its citizens, for the betterment of the Socialist state, the freedoms of speech, press, assembly and protest. However if their Government felt your speech, etc. wasn't "for the betterment of the Socialist state", then those rights didn't apply to you. The United States Constitution credits rights as being "endowed by our Creator", such that no argument can be openly made that the Government can revoke them.

To re-define the meaning of what a right is, just because we think it'll help give us something that we want, puts us in a dangerous position where we'll be at the Government's mercy to grant those rights.

The Government doesn't own us, so therefore it shouldn't have to take care of us like our mother did.

2 points

It may not even be the next generation that will be paying for all of this; financially speaking, we're fast approaching the breaking point and the Country will face economic troubles that will dwarf what we've already experienced.

You're right; America does NOT have the money, and there's only 3 methods to raise money.

1) Taxation, which is the most 'honest' method of raising funds, but its politically unpopular so those who raise the taxes jeopardize their re-election, so it's actually only rarely used anyone compared to the other methods.

2) Borrowing, which in a sense is a "tax on the future", as the money will have to be paid back through tax revenues. However we've nearly maxed out our "credit card" as a nation, as China, Japan and all our other creditors that have generously lent us billions over the past few decades are soon going to realize we'll likely never end up paying them back. Plus we've got a huge trade deficit to worry about with many of the same nations, as we give them our paper currency and they ship us their goods and we have much less things of tangible value to ship back to them. But once they decide we're not worth lending to anymore, our money raising technique #3 will result in their holdings in dollars to become worth decreasingly less and they'll use them to buy up plenty of our much-needed goods here.

3) Currency inflation, whereas the Federal Reserve simply prints up the money and gives it to the Government to spend wherever it wants to, which results in every dollar in existence to lose purchasing power, thus resulting in price increases for commodities. It carries the same net effect as taxation, since it takes wealth from everyone else and transfers it to whomever is receiving the freshly printed currency. But this method hurts the poor the most, since they're the ones that spend a larger portion of their income on things like gasoline and groceries, but it does affect everybody.

Now since America's been running budget deficits for so many years, the amount the Government has spent has long outweighed the amount brought in from taxes, borrowing and inflating have been the big tools funding the War on Terror, the Bailouts, ect. But NONE OF IT is truly justified to begin with, so that we used those methods so far without collapsing our entire financial system does not in any way justify using it to bail out anybody, no matter how much "in need" that they are.

It's sad that lots of people are losing their homes right now, but the fact is our ability to spend money we don't have is running out, and how much better off will they be if the dollar collapses because of the our reckless spending and we end up either owned by China or living like the days of the Wiemar Republic? ALL of our crazy spending, and ALL of our Bailout programs need to cease immediately, or that's the future we'll have, and I can't see how we can keep it up for even 3 more years.

2 points

It wasn't racist to represent George W. Bush as a Chimpanzee as seen in countless comics and internet photographs literally comparing him to a chimp, so there's no reason why it should suddenly become racist for Obama-san to be represented as a monkey, especially since this Japanese company clearly had no mal-intent. It's not like the monkey wasn't already their bloody mascot! There was no harm intended at all by the ad.

4 points

Of course! Bush has done everything from 9/11 to the Tsunami in 2004, so it's no surprise that he's also clearly behind the Mumbai attacks too! He's also crashed our economy, armed Syria with Saddam's old horde of WMDs, and personally pissed in your water supply after binging on coke!

Speaking of coke, I need to run off now and do some cocaine off the edge of a blender blade while it's running on full speed! And then I'm going to have another make-out session with my pet toad! Groovy time! O_O

(I hope my sarcasm was obvious, but also like to add the disclaimer that I don't actually like Bush and I swear I can taste his pee in my tap water, but I wouldn't accuse him of having a direct hand in Mumbai. Sometimes people over there in the Middle-East just get pissed off and do stupid/homicidal/suicidal things.)

(Note: I don't actually think my tap water tastes like pee. But check yours, just in case...)

2 points

The weekly address thing is a good idea; I'm assuming it will also be aired on news networks and such, right? (Haven't had it on at all today so no idea if it's on TV)

As for the content of his message, I believe he's dead-wrong. How many more emergency bail-out "Rescue Package" things are we going to end up paying for? And I still have no idea where he expects to get the money to pay for all that other stuff he talked about, especially the $150 billion for the Green Energy Economy thing. This country is already too far bankrupt and in debt (both National Debt & Entitlements Debt, over 30 Trillion dollars of it), and what little Hope I had that in him that he'd might do something to Change that huge problem has been effectively erased by this address.

1 point

With the way our politicians like to pretend that the Constitution doesn't apply to them, then we might as well be a democracy. The Government's broken nearly every restraint the Constitution placed on them, and the people are too apathetic to demand its enforcement. Now that the dependency stage is going to start to set in, the public will oppose those that favor the Constitutional restrictions on the Government's ability to give them their 'free' hand-outs. We used to be a Republic, but the people have decided through inaction that they prefer a Democracy instead.

4 points

One of the rarest things in human history is for people who acquire vast power to surrender it. They may claim they're going to do so at first, but will decide once it's upon them that they know best, and that they can use this power for their good intentions, aka their agenda, whatever it may be.

9 points

Even the issue of warfare has been flip-flopped. In the 1990's during the Clinton presidency, the Democrats were all for sending our military here and there (Kosovo, Somalia, ect.) to enforce UN Resolutions and such, while the Republicans were firmly against that. Then comes Bush and Republican control, wherein you're ostracized from the party for questioning the wisdom of invading Iraq in order to enforce UN Resolutions (so the story goes), and now it's the Democrats who claim the title "Anti-War."

Everyone gets stuck on the topics like abortion or gay marriage and think those make huge differences, but then the Democrats & Republicans together have almost unanimous agreement in the areas of how to run foreign policy... disagreeing with the policy only when they aren't the party in power, but executing it all the same when they are empowered to do so.

Our country is on a disastrous course toward total bankruptcy, with over a trillion dollars of debt to China among other countries, and many trillions more of debt to entitlement programs we cannot fulfill (Social Security, Medicare, ect.). Our currency is inflating without end in sight, making prices all across the board go up. Have either party done so much as discuss this problem? Democrats may have the general tendency to "Tax and Spend", but then Republicans have shown they'll just "Borrow and Spend", and that borrowing will have to be made up for with taxes later instead of immediately. Where is the party that's against the wasteful spending?

It's the policies that aren't being debated that make it clear that the "Two" parties are essentially one. When the draft comes back, when a loaf of bread is $300.00, when gasoline is as hard to come by as Sasquatch-fur jackets, I highly doubt whether gays can get married or not will seem like an important issue anymore.

3 points

While I hate to leave the Iraqis to clean up the mess we made for them and to leave them to fend for themselves, the fact is giving them our open-ended military and financial support is bankrupting our own country. We're too busy building bridges (that we blew up) in Iraq, while our own bridges right here at home are at the brink of falling down... one of them already did. The Iraqis will have much more incentive to fight for the defense of their country once they know our troops won't be guarding them for 'free' any longer.

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