You may say that but in fact you don't know if it's true or not. That's certainly not true in this health care debacle and I would suspect many other cases as well. But the government is forcing ALL Americans do get involved n their schemes whether it makes any financial sense or not. Why cant individual Americans make those decisions? Or, at the very least, each State.
The individual mandate of Obamcare is not the same as a safety net, and you might be surprised to know that I do not support such a mandate.
However, the health care reform enacted does not mean you don't have a choice, it just means you HAVE to make a choice, again something I don't support.
Whether I support it or not however, the individual or not it does make financial sense.
Because once they are introduced, and all without the approval of the American people, they are very difficult to get rid of. There will be a lot of disappointed baby boomers, and beyond, who will not have the promised money for their retirement but who have made plans that this would be so. There will be no money for these people.
No, it is unsustainable. There is no way to reform this broken system because, in this system, its all about money, money that is not there. It's all very well to dream of "reform" as though that's a possibility for the scheme to continue but anyone who thinks that, especially with the trillion dollars increase in debt every few months, makes any "reform" impossible
No the reason it's difficult to get rid of is because it works.
Social security brought millions of Elderly Americans out of poverty.
The issue is that when it was enacted, unlike many Extreme right wingers would believe, it was not a conspiracy or plot to bankrupt the government, it was a program that worked in it's time. As was many social safety nets of it's time, as was the same in Western Europe.
Why?
Because the population pyramid was different, no one in their right mind would ever have believed the birth rates would change as dramatically as they have.
There is absolutely no way in the world I would want to be an American right now, for the reasons explained above. You should drop this silliness. These class wars are going to get rougher and I don't need that hassle.
As a former Marxist, if you think what's happening in the US right now is Class Warfare then I'm afraid you don't know what class warfare is.
How do you know it is "unsubstantiated". Historically, its the communists who lie. We all know that, or should. And in fact Ive said more than once that I don;t know if these charges are true or not but they should certainly be investigated.
I'm sorry it's communists who "lie"?
How the hell does that support Mr. Wests claims?
Can you prove them?
Can he?
Can anyone?
How many card carrying members of the communist party do you think there are in Congress?
And if so how many are there?
What are their names?
Do you have an ounce of proof whatsoever.
More silliness. That seems to form the basis of your debate style. If I wanted to be an American tea Partier there is nothing to prevent me.
I certainly could be a Tea Partier, as well as an American, but choose not to be. I'm happy spending most of my life in Canada and central America. Do you know of a good reason, if you think know me, why I would want that to change? I certainly have no interest in you beyond your juvenile posts to which I feel i feel obliged to respond. Why your fixation on my personal life?
Yeah why would you want to change, when you get free health care, a social safety net and a much safer country... :2razz: