"wf3h" wrote in message
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On Aug 20, 9:47 pm, TopBassDog wrote:
On Aug 20, 7:32 pm, wf3h wrote:



On Aug 20, 8:11 pm, Old Guzzisti wrote:

Let's get this straight...

We're going to pass a health care plan

-written by a committee whose head says he doesn't understand it,

we had 8 years of free market capitalism...and look at what it did for
us

it's time to get some benefits for the middle class instead of
wallstreet.

What could possibly go wrong?

John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, and a very progressive (liberal) thinker,
penned a column in the Wall street Journal Online that begins:

"With a projected $1.8 trillion deficit for 2009, several trillions more in
deficits projected over the next decade, and with both Medicare and Social
Security entitlement spending about to ratchet up several notches over the
next 15 years as Baby Boomers become eligible for both, we are rapidly
running out of other people's money. These deficits are simply not
sustainable. They are either going to result in unprecedented new taxes and
inflation, or they will bankrupt us.

"While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country needs
is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of
billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a
government takeover of our health-care system. Instead, we should be trying
to achieve reforms by moving in the opposite direction-toward less
government control and more individual empowerment. Here are eight reforms
that would greatly lower the cost of health care for everyone:...."

For the whole text, go to:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...072865070.html

There are valid and workable alternatives to the Dims' socialistic answers
to everything that will leave this country bankrupt. Wouldn't it make sense
to consider the alternatives rather than reject them out of hand?