| MikeB said:
What he stated here fully reflects on what I stated above, funny as it's the first time I saw this video. He basically stated they had the resources and ability to so at the time without risk, fast forward a decade and that's no longer the case. The Bush adminstration got rid of the needed resources and conditions, as well as making very risky decisions. In some countries they have free healthcare for all their people. If you have the resources to do so, that's a good thing. However if the conditions change, this great public service may need to be adapted. As for your other comments towards others participating in this thread please quit the personal insults, it doesn't help this discussion (with regard to movie formats and gaming consoles, in other words simply entertainment devices!) and IMO reflects badly mostly on yourself. |
I think Government is corrupt. I hope we can agree on that. The problem with starting any program, is there is no way to stop it in almost every case, until you run out of money. We never stop programs when it's a good idea to stop them. Lobbyist make sure that's the case. I never said it was not Bush's fault as well, I only stated that this problem started with the Clinton administration, and laying the blame on one administration is a little naive.
In a nutshell, Clinton's idea was that the government can basically co-sign on a loan for those that can't otherwise get one. We could afford it at the time, but I disagree with that philosophy. Also, doing so started making Fanny billions of dollars, and they lobbied the hell out of congress to keep the money flowing there direction.
As for your free healthcare comment, sorry, nothing is fee. It's not free for anyone who pays taxes. In other countries (particularly small ones), government might run efficient enough to make healthcare thought them viable. The US is no where close to that being the case.
As for my comments about the other guy, he pretty much went on a rant, and called 90% of the site users uneducated 12 year old fanboys. In all my time here on this site, I have yet to converse with more of a fanboy then him. I thought it was an odd thing to do (if you read some of his posts about Mac, you would think Steve Jobs ate his babies or something). Anyway, I wanted to stand up for the users of this site, and put him in his place.
Probably poor taste, but still fun :)
