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On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:09:14 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:20:43 -0400, bpuharic wrote:
On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:23:51 -0400, wrote:
On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:07:05 -0400, Harry ?
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used the rationalization that any bill called "health care" was better
than nothing. We are starting to see that may not be right and we are
just starting to see the ramifications of the language that nobody
read. By 2014, when the biggest parts of the bill come on line, I
expect to see massive public outrage.
blah blah blah...when has the right wing crystal ball been right?
About as often as the CBO guestimates.
Medicare cost 10 times what the CBO projected in the first 10 years.
It has been bankrupt for about 4-5, simply borrowing money to pay it's
bills.
And, your solution is what exactly? I don't think getting rid of medicare
is
going to be very popular.
Nothing painful is popular, that is why we are borrowing 40 cents of
every dollar the federal government spends.
Unfortunately I don't have a good answer but there is going to be a
bad answer, forced on us by reality, within the next few years.
At a certain point, we may have a hard time finding people who will
loan the US money for an interest rate we can afford to pay.
Then we will have our "Greece" moment and a lot of the things we think
we are "entitled to" will go away. The open question will be whether
we will have the same street riots the Greeks had. It won't be exactly
the same since we are better armed.
Couple this with American jobs being filled by HB-1 visa holder, documented
and undocumented workers and outsourcing and we will have reached the end of
the Empire of the United States of America.
I wonder the the left wing Chinese will treat wetback gringos as nicely as
we've treated our illegals? I'm thinking not.
And who will China sell all their crap to? Maybe they'll have to keep their
poisoned pet food, contaminated people food and lead laden toys at home?
Who wiil they spy on? Will they send $7M per day to Israel for bombs and
bullets?
We are in for a lot of changes. We should get ready by doing something about
the pilots that are driving this big plane into the ground. Maybe start with
term limits? Maybe follow that with identifying corruption within our
government and punishing the corrupt?
Ah, **** it - there's a game on/I need to go to the hairdresser/etc etc etc.
and my party tells me as long as I send em 25 bucks and vote their way,
everything will be just_ friggin_ peachy.