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Discuss the US Presidential Election & Health Care
Yesterday we discussed the war and how foreign policy will matter in your decision next Tuesday. Today our series of election discussion pieces continues with Health Care. With an obesity epidemic, a failing economy, and ballooning health care costs, which candidate has the best answers to making sure that Americans are able to stay healthy without America being bankrupted in the process?
Obama's plan should scare you to death if your big. First, lets assume that we will not only have obama, but the house and senate will also be dem.
This may not be your scenario, but it will be for many.
1. You get gov health care.
2. Gov raises taxes on small busisnesses.
3. Your employer discontinues health care because of increased taxes, tells you to use gov care. (Hey, it's better than them firing you.)
4. Goverment says (And this has been kicked around, it's not that far fetched.) "This health care is expensive for out of shape people, lets tell them to get in shape or they don't get care"
5. You don't meet their BMI... you can't get health care.
#4/5 is not something obama plans on doing, but there are some powerful people in the senate who have said they want to do this. Without someone to keep them in check, it's very possible.
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link #1 Barack Hussein Obama has pledged to increase taxes on capital gains from 15% to a stunning 20%.
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link #2 "[Barack Hussein Obama] says he would delay NASA's controversial moon-to-Mars program five years in order to fund education initiatives."
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link #3 Paul Krugman, an economist at MIT, states "If Mrs. Clinton gets the Democratic nomination, there is some chance -- nobody knows how big -- that we'll get universal health care in the next administration. If Mr. Obama gets the nomination, it just won't happen."
These so-called education initiatives are simply remedial-education programs that target African-Americans. Yet, we already spend more money per student in public school than nearly all other Western nations. Specifically, we spend 35% more than the Germans.
Lack of money is not the problem. The problem is African-American hatred of education. Many African-Americans regularly fail exit exams, which many state governments require high-school students to pass before they may receive a high-school diploma. Exit exams typically test knowledge at the 8th-grade level. A 12th-grade student who fails such a simplistic exam must be a student who has deliberately refused to learn.
Yet, Barack Hussein Obama and his close friend, Pastor Jeremiah Wright, claim that African-American failure in public schools is the fault of non-African-Americans. Obama claims that exit exams are racist. Obama intends to cancel exit exams and other educational standards.
Here is the clincher. Instead of using all that revenue (from gutting important government programs and greatly increasing taxes) on universal health care, Barack Hussein Obama intends to waste billions of dollars on remedial-education programs. He wants to cater to his core constituency: 90% of African-Americans regularly votes for him due to the color of his skin.
"While the crowd was indeed diverse, some students at the event questioned the practices of Mrs. Obama's event coordinators, who handpicked the crowd sitting behind Mrs. Obama. The Tartan's correspondents observed one event coordinator say to another, 'Get me more white people, we need more white people.' To an Asian girl sitting in the back row, one coordinator said, 'We're moving you, sorry. It's going to look so pretty, though.'
'I didn't know they would say, 'We need a white person here,'' said attendee and senior psychology major Shayna Watson, who sat in the crowd behind Mrs. Obama. 'I understood they would want a show of diversity, but to pick up people and to reseat them, I didn't know it would be so outright.'"
Barack Hussein Obama has been playing the race card since day #1. He deliberately fakes non-African-American support for his campaign in order to hide the fact that 90% of African-Americans votes for him due solely to his skin color.
The quote above is shocking. Please check the original source. The quote is accurate and is within context.
If you are a worker in the campaign of either Hillary Clinton or John McCain, please feel free to use any of my references in your campaign.
There, fixed it for you.
it is acceptable that people not have healthcare in this society, please move to the third world, where you routinely see people dying on the street of diseases and conditions requiring 50 cents and fifteeen minutes of medical attention
i mean, by saying you think some people should not have healthcare, you are openly saying you don't care baout your society
and if you don't care boaut your society, why do you expect to continue deriving benefits from it? you don't care baout society's health. ok
well then, we should stop caring about you
get off our roads
stop using our currency
stop using our electricity
stop using our transportation
oh, what? these are magical things that exist outside of a society that cares about itself and takes care of itself?
no, the truth is, your a blind selfish fuck, who wishes to deny that which takes care of him
you don't have a valid opinion or point of view, because you have no logical coherence or moral integrity
you are talking about issues you don't care about. in which case you should prove how much you really don't care, and SHUT UP
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
the healthcare system as it stands allows for irresponsible behavior with repercussions for unrelated parties. Someone gets stuck footing the bill and theres no good framework to address it currently. Its imbalanced.
Hey, you've just discovered a fantastic way to get votes! I'll just promise to tax the crap out of one group of people -- people who work hard, create jobs, and contribute to the economy by spending and investments -- and give it to another group of people who haven't earned it. The former group will be responsible for the actions of the latter group! The former group will typically be smaller than the latter group, thus I can always be assured of winning any election! The former group will be unable to do anything about it for the same reason.
I think a certain politician is advocating this right now. What's his name? Gosh, it just slips my mind. It's that guy who wants to "spread the wealth around." I think his name is "Senator Change" or "Senator Hope."
In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
But the NHS _is_ filthy. See
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/mrsa
There's an epidemic of iatrogenic infections in NHS hospitals because of lax hygiene standards.
Sure, you may be fine with it (you may find rotting teeth sexually attractive, too), but we're a bit more obsessed with avoiding infections here in the US (also with perfect teeth).
Luckily, I made good choices early in life, so I don't have to decide between eating and paying rent. Those who are stuck in that position, probably did something to put themselves there. Life's tough, buy a helmet.
"A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers." Hayek
McCain hasn't "suckled" at any government "teat." Health insurance was part of his compensation for his work in the Navy and in Congress. That is, he earned it. Considering the distinction with which he earned it regarding his Navy service, I'd suggest barking up another tree.
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>>>Firstly, it is considered a right that you will be able to live your life with some semblance of dignity
There is NO such right, because in order for that right to exist, you must STEAL MONEY from your neighbors' weekly paychecks. You do not have a right to commit theft. That's exactly what the Plantation Masters used to do when they made black & white slaves work without pay.
The government is not your daddy. Its purpose is not to raid middle-class neighbors' wallets and give it to you.
False. I've seen the total Gas Tax collected, and the amount collected *exceeds* the amount spent. About 80% is used to fund highways. The remaining 20% surplus is added to the treasury.
The government is not your daddy. Its purpose is not to raid middle-class neighbors' wallets and give it to you.