| The_vagabond7 said: I'm only socially liberal. Economically I'd say moderate, not quite conservative. Namely because I see big business as having grown into a monster with far more power than any government. They are the means of progress, but I don't like them running rampant. I don't want a nanny state, but also I don't think a survival of the fittest, you fail your family starves state is particularly justifiable in such a prosperous country. Saftey net programs that aren't easily abused is the ideal.
That being said, holy shit was Halogamer nuts. You weren't bad bigjon, at worst you could be obnoxious trying to mimic foxnews casters in tone, but you were nothing like that other nutjob. You still come off as sane. |
The problem with big government though is.... it doesn't protect us from corporations if anything it's quite the opposite. Look at farm minimiun wage laws. Government's are nothing but tools for corporations, at least with the system we have now. Heck, look at the new healthcare laws... it attacked the one part of the healthcare industry that makes the least amount of profit. Why? There are plenty of powerful Doctor, Hospital and Bio-tech lobbies.
While the Health insurance lobby has been slipping since the other 3 have turned on them.
In reality, we need to find a way to keep the profit motivators their for bio-tech but find a way to make it and drugs cheaper. We're a gigantic part of the worlds research spending (84%) and we make way more improvements then the rest of the world... we gotta find a way to maintain that... or everyones health will pay.
The answer might be in not EVERYONE needing to have the best care. Older MRI machines still work great afterall. I mean, even countries with socialized healthcare could take a page out of this one. Better that everyone gets an MRI then some have to go until next year.
We probably need "second tier" hospitals that people can go too for cheaper with the more expensive hospitals handling the tough cases... it works for everything else.
Strong hard to abuse saftey nets would be good though.
Like Welfare where you have to work for the government so often out of the year.
And instead of food stamps... how about just sending people food? Not only does that lower abuse, it makes sure people get health food instead of whatever crap they have to buy because there are no supermarkets or markets near them.
