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We could certainly do that. We could also eliminate all taxes and borrow all the money we need. After all, taxes and borrowing both take money out of the private sector and then put it right back in again. What's the big deal?If all that growing debt really doesn't matter, why pay taxes at all? Why not just print more money as needed?
Even at 10% unemployment, 90% of the workforce is employed, most at the same jobs they've had for a while. That's the thing about unemployment -- unlike inflation, it's very unevenly distributed and experienced across the economy. Large numbers are barely affected by it at all. And of course, you can't count the numbers of people who are not at the mall. You think it's crowded today without thinking how much more crowded it might have been if the economy were booming.Now, back to the gloomy economic news vs crowded shopping malls, what is your take on that? Are people spending money that they don't have, or is the economy really better than we've been led to believe?
It may not be "much ado about nothing" now, but what of the next generation and if the debt keeps rising what of the next and the next.
Are we to keep passing the buck to the next generation, or are we to start taking responsibility for the debts the generation as accumilated.eace
That must explain why so many people needing life saving surgery fly to the United States, if they can..............!
With some fits and starts here and there, we've been running up the public debt since 1836. Really fast during times of national emergency, not usually so fast in other times. Nobody ever paid off our WWII debts. We just keep rolling them over. That very much is the American way. And no one much cared about it until January 20, 2009. Then all of a sudden it was time for outrage over spending and debt. Kind of odd when you stop and think about it.
Yada, yada, yada. The best we can do for posterity is to get this Great Bush Recession mess cleaned up and out of their way. That's going to take some money.
First we have to clean up the mess left by conservative Bush's misrule, including the financial meltdown, the bailout, and two unfunded wars. Then after we fix up the problems left by failed conservative politicies, growth with take care of debt.
Noooooooooo.............we would rather pay more for lesser outcomes than do anything like what is working in the rest of the industrialized world!
Where do you plan on getting this money from.,
TAXES? MAYBE BUDGET CUTS?,OR MAYBE THE RICH, OR THE POOR OR THE MIDDLE CLASS?eace
That must be why Canadians and Europeans come here for serious surgeries and treatments.:roll:
Yep, one with lots of money do. See the problem yet?
Bull, it does not take lots of money to be treated here, only a sense of priorities.
Keep dreaming. If that were the case then poor Frenchmen would come here. But in fact only the rich do.
Stop the steam of consciousness and deal with reality.
We have a system that rations health care by income. That's why our outcomes are so bad. PUBLIC health isn't the as really good health care for the rich.
That must be why Canadians and Europeans come here for serious surgeries and treatments.:roll:
If that is "evidence", what about all the medical tourist from the US that travel outside the country for affordable medical treatment? Where are all the Canadians and Europeans, or any first world nation, clamoring to switch to our type of health care system?
They are endless, I work for a global company with 9 locations in Canada. A large percentage of the employees there would love to have my insurance instead of paying that high tax rate for pathetic coverage. It is basically Natural Selection that you get taxed for in Canada
Please link to the news stories from credible sources showing mass support in the other first world nations for switching to a US style health care system.
Why should I link what I did not claim? Do you have a reading problem?:lamo
If that is "evidence", what about all the medical tourist from the US that travel outside the country for affordable medical treatment? Where are all the Canadians and Europeans, or any first world nation, clamoring to switch to our type of health care system?
They are endless, I work for a global company with 9 locations in Canada. A large percentage of the employees there would love to have my insurance instead of paying that high tax rate for pathetic coverage. It is basically Natural Selection that you get taxed for in Canada
How about from economic growth, after investing loan interest loans (our debt) in infrastructure (i.e., productivity) rather than Bush's unfunded war.
It works.
We have a system that works quite well, in fact 85% of Americans were covered before ACA was ever mentioned. It comes down to priorities nothing more nothing less. The people complaining about lack of insurance are the same ones buying cigarettes, iphones, and alcohol.
How can America tap into economic growth while outsourcing more jobs from American industries?
You know of course that Manufacturing isn't the only industry being outsourced.eace
Pssst: read the OP. You're factually wrong. But that never stopped a conservative from indulging in market evangelism.
Pay for service is a relic of the past. It can't survive for well know reasons involving market flaws in the health care (price inelasticity and imbalance in information). But conservative will continue to deny reality and make themselves even more irrelevant to real America.
Why should I link what I did not claim? Do you have a reading problem?:lamo
When did paying for a service become a "relic if the past"? Someone pays for everything in one way or another..
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