MaggieD
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I cannot disagree, the path we are on is not to a good destination.
- There is more racial discord in our country than at any other time in my life.
- Interest rates are being kept artificially low, yet installment interest (which I consider a tax on the poor) is almost at an all-time high.
- Governmental rules and regulations are impeding small business and driving up the cost of home ownership.
- Government bodies have taken on a behemoth life of their own at taxpayer expense.
- Public sector pensions are bankrupting our cities.
- People using our hospital emergency rooms as primary care physician services are driving up the cost of medicine.
- Police departments are inadequately training their LEOs in de-escalation and closing their eyes to misconduct.
- Class warfare is being actively promoted in our political arena.
- Our immigration policies are so outdated as to benefit the immigrant rather than the USA.
- The cost of a college education is beyond the reach of the middle class without student loans that start out our graduates in crushing debt.
- We are marching down the road to socialism.
- The power of incumbency and lack of term limits make it almost impossible for new and innovative approaches to problem-solving to be implemented. The machine is in charge.
If I thought longer, my list would grow.
The definition of insanity is often described as doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result.
Is it time to try something different? What might that be?
There is more racial discord in our country than at any other time in my life.
Interest rates are being kept artificially low, yet installment interest (which I consider a tax on the poor) is almost at an all-time high.
Governmental rules and regulations are impeding small business and driving up the cost of home ownership.
Government bodies have taken on a behemoth life of their own at taxpayer expense.
Public sector pensions are bankrupting our cities.
People using our hospital emergency rooms as primary care physician services are driving up the cost of medicine.
Police departments are inadequately training their LEOs in de-escalation and closing their eyes to misconduct.
Class warfare is being actively promoted in our political arena.
Our immigration policies are so outdated as to benefit the immigrant rather than the USA.
The cost of a college education is beyond the reach of the middle class without student loans that start out our graduates in crushing debt.
We are marching down the road to socialism.
The power of incumbency and lack of term limits make it almost impossible for new and innovative approaches to problem-solving to be implemented. The machine is in charge.
Why do you say that? I ask, because that's demonstrably not true at all. Your early life would've still been the Civil Rights Era, and the 70s the ongoing backlash to the advancements made during the 60s. The 80s and 90s were ungodly terrible for racial minorities in this country. The crack epidemic, the late 80s crime wave, the 90s race riots, the rise of street gangs, the beginning of mass incarceration, and so on. The 00s were an improvement but they weren't better than they are today.
- There is more racial discord in our country than at any other time in my life.
Why do you say that? I ask, because that's demonstrably not true at all. Your early life would've still been the Civil Rights Era, and the 70s the ongoing backlash to the advancements made during the 60s. The 80s and 90s were ungodly terrible for racial minorities in this country. The crack epidemic, the late 80s crime wave, the 90s race riots, the rise of street gangs, the beginning of mass incarceration, and so on. The 00s were an improvement but they weren't better than they are today.
Our racial discord we're seeing today is absolutely nothing new. It's pretty same old same old. What has been changing though is that middle-aged, white people are now starting to "see" what it's like to be a racial minority in this country. Or national media and most of white America would've completely ignored how cops shoot black men or black churches getting shot up by white nationalist just a decade ago. However now events like those and people's thoughts of them are being taken to task.
- There is more racial discord in our country than at any other time in my life.
- Interest rates are being kept artificially low, yet installment interest (which I consider a tax on the poor) is almost at an all-time high.
- Governmental rules and regulations are impeding small business and driving up the cost of home ownership.
- Government bodies have taken on a behemoth life of their own at taxpayer expense.
- Public sector pensions are bankrupting our cities.
- People using our hospital emergency rooms as primary care physician services are driving up the cost of medicine.
- Police departments are inadequately training their LEOs in de-escalation and closing their eyes to misconduct.
- Class warfare is being actively promoted in our political arena.
- Our immigration policies are so outdated as to benefit the immigrant rather than the USA.
- The cost of a college education is beyond the reach of the middle class without student loans that start out our graduates in crushing debt.
- We are marching down the road to socialism.
- The power of incumbency and lack of term limits make it almost impossible for new and innovative approaches to problem-solving to be implemented. The machine is in charge.
If I thought longer, my list would grow.
The definition of insanity is often described as doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result.
Is it time to try something different? What might that be?
- There is more racial discord in our country than at any other time in my life.
- Interest rates are being kept artificially low, yet installment interest (which I consider a tax on the poor) is almost at an all-time high.
- Governmental rules and regulations are impeding small business and driving up the cost of home ownership.
- Government bodies have taken on a behemoth life of their own at taxpayer expense.
- Public sector pensions are bankrupting our cities.
- People using our hospital emergency rooms as primary care physician services are driving up the cost of medicine.
- Police departments are inadequately training their LEOs in de-escalation and closing their eyes to misconduct.
- Class warfare is being actively promoted in our political arena.
- Our immigration policies are so outdated as to benefit the immigrant rather than the USA.
- The cost of a college education is beyond the reach of the middle class without student loans that start out our graduates in crushing debt.
- We are marching down the road to socialism.
- The power of incumbency and lack of term limits make it almost impossible for new and innovative approaches to problem-solving to be implemented. The machine is in charge.
If I thought longer, my list would grow.
The definition of insanity is often described as doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result.
Is it time to try something different? What might that be?
- There is more racial discord in our country than at any other time in my life.
- Interest rates are being kept artificially low, yet installment interest (which I consider a tax on the poor) is almost at an all-time high.
- Governmental rules and regulations are impeding small business and driving up the cost of home ownership.
- Government bodies have taken on a behemoth life of their own at taxpayer expense.
- Public sector pensions are bankrupting our cities.
- People using our hospital emergency rooms as primary care physician services are driving up the cost of medicine.
- Police departments are inadequately training their LEOs in de-escalation and closing their eyes to misconduct.
- Class warfare is being actively promoted in our political arena.
- Our immigration policies are so outdated as to benefit the immigrant rather than the USA.
- The cost of a college education is beyond the reach of the middle class without student loans that start out our graduates in crushing debt.
- We are marching down the road to socialism.
- The power of incumbency and lack of term limits make it almost impossible for new and innovative approaches to problem-solving to be implemented. The machine is in charge.
If I thought longer, my list would grow.
The definition of insanity is often described as doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result.
Is it time to try something different? What might that be?
- There is more racial discord in our country than at any other time in my life.
- Interest rates are being kept artificially low, yet installment interest (which I consider a tax on the poor) is almost at an all-time high.
- Governmental rules and regulations are impeding small business and driving up the cost of home ownership.
- Government bodies have taken on a behemoth life of their own at taxpayer expense.
- Public sector pensions are bankrupting our cities.
- People using our hospital emergency rooms as primary care physician services are driving up the cost of medicine.
- Police departments are inadequately training their LEOs in de-escalation and closing their eyes to misconduct.
- Class warfare is being actively promoted in our political arena.
- Our immigration policies are so outdated as to benefit the immigrant rather than the USA.
- The cost of a college education is beyond the reach of the middle class without student loans that start out our graduates in crushing debt.
- We are marching down the road to socialism.
- The power of incumbency and lack of term limits make it almost impossible for new and innovative approaches to problem-solving to be implemented. The machine is in charge.
If I thought longer, my list would grow.
The definition of insanity is often described as doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result.
Is it time to try something different? What might that be?
My plan?
1. I don't think there is really as much racial discord as we think, it is just publicized via social media which tends to generate copy-cat attention seeking activity.
2. Interest rates ARE being generated to benefit corporations and banks to the detriment of the common consumer. IMO the Federal Reserve system and unlimited money is to blame. :shrug:
3. I can't speak to small business and home ownership issue because I have never owned a small business of a home.
4. We do have an excess of government agencies...but that's because people demand the services provided by them...if we demand them, we have to pay for them.
5. Public sector pensions are a problem and need cutting, but try to remember they are awarded for 20 or more years of public service dealing day in and out with people like us.
6. We NEED a real single-payer national healthcare system. The rich can still go see private doctors, but it would be cheaper to pay a health tax than pay for health insurance w/co-pays and deductibles.
Didn't both the 1980 Miami riots and 1992 LA/Rodney King riots happen because white cops were acquitted for killing/beating black men? Both resulted in mass riots with significant loss of life. :/ Or, I think there were a couple of riots that happened in the 2000s too after white cops killed or used excess force against black men.I don't remember blacks advocating the killing of white cops ...
Well, we've also never had a half-black President before either.... nor remember a president insinuating that it's our own fault. Neither of these things is same old same old.
6. We NEED a real single-payer national healthcare system. The rich can still go see private doctors, but it would be cheaper to pay a health tax than pay for health insurance w/co-pays and deductibles.
Agreed with Captain Adverse. Healthcare is such an atypical "good" that it makes it rather difficult for normal market forces to operate effectively. We sorely need a single-payer healthcare system for basic medical services, and I can't believe that the USA, which still operates so much better than other countries, would fail to come up with an effective and fair public healthcare system.If the one payer system is a cut back Medicaid financed like the German one with a flat tax on income up to about $ 5.000 a month of ca 17 percent and Medicare is dumped, why not?
Agreed with Captain Adverse. Healthcare is such an atypical "good" that it makes it rather difficult for normal market forces to operate effectively. We sorely need a single-payer healthcare system for basic medical services, and I can't believe that the USA, which still operates so much better than other countries, would fail to come up with an effective and fair public healthcare system.
- There is more racial discord in our country than at any other time in my life.
- Interest rates are being kept artificially low, yet installment interest (which I consider a tax on the poor) is almost at an all-time high.
- Governmental rules and regulations are impeding small business and driving up the cost of home ownership.
- Government bodies have taken on a behemoth life of their own at taxpayer expense.
- Public sector pensions are bankrupting our cities.
- People using our hospital emergency rooms as primary care physician services are driving up the cost of medicine.
- Police departments are inadequately training their LEOs in de-escalation and closing their eyes to misconduct.
- Class warfare is being actively promoted in our political arena.
- Our immigration policies are so outdated as to benefit the immigrant rather than the USA.
- The cost of a college education is beyond the reach of the middle class without student loans that start out our graduates in crushing debt.
- We are marching down the road to socialism.
- The power of incumbency and lack of term limits make it almost impossible for new and innovative approaches to problem-solving to be implemented. The machine is in charge.
If I thought longer, my list would grow.
The definition of insanity is often described as doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result.
Is it time to try something different? What might that be?
Be afraid Maggie
Very afraid
And then vote according to your fear
Make the party happy
From what my dad told me once, he said the 1960's were worse- so keep your chin up, Maggie, its not as bad as you think it is!
Agreed with Captain Adverse. Healthcare is such an atypical "good" that it makes it rather difficult for normal market forces to operate effectively. We sorely need a single-payer healthcare system for basic medical services, and I can't believe that the USA, which still operates so much better than other countries, would fail to come up with an effective and fair public healthcare system.
I don't remember blacks advocating the killing of white cops nor remember a president insinuating that it's our own fault. Neither of these things is same old same old.
Back in the 1950's, there were still lynchings because of race. Emmett Till, a teen from Chicago, was lynched when he was visiting some relatives in Mississippi because he looked at a white woman. As for 'socialism'... if we had universal single payer health care, that would get rid of the 'use emergency rooms as doctors'.
Be afraid Maggie
Very afraid
And then vote according to your fear
Make the party happy
I don't remember blacks advocating the killing of white cops nor remember a president insinuating that it's our own fault. Neither of these things is same old same old.
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