Stop voting for "change".

[Mr Puggsly]

pokoko said:

Mr Puggsly said:

Well the those educated liberals had the last two elections and it was leading us into a path of socialism. Obamacare in a nutshell was wealth redistribution. A lazy unemployed person capble of working shouldn't get better health care than a working person strugging to pay bills. That's a broken system.

In my opinion, people voted for Trump hoping he would take us in a different direction versus more Obama. The new direction republicans take us may not work, but neither was Obama's direction in his 8 years.

I have no problem with socialism as long as it works.  The United States has many socialistic elements that people would go ballistic over if removed.  Anyone really want to go back to private roads?  I doubt it.

The problem with Trump's healthcare plan is that he doesn't have one, which is kind of my point.  It's just promises and talking points.  However, while people who wanted details were criticizing that, the fact that he was just making vague promises to "replace Obamacare with something terrific" was perfect rhetoric for those who don't care about details.  In fact, his success in that regard might influence elections going forward, with candidates only giving trumped up (pun unintended) overviews of their intentions.  

I don't think socialism ever "works" as well as people would like. More importantly, I don't get the impression Americans want the same socialism other countries believe "works."

Paying taxes for roads is fine, but for the wealth redistribution we've seen from Obamacare is something else.

Obama's healthcare plan was a disaster from the start and shouldn't have existed as it was. I think its fair to say it was a scheme to get working people to subsidize healthcare for the poor. I'm fine with safety nets, but Obamacare has been a burden for many. To be fair there have been aspects I've liked about ACA, but as a whole its a mess. Maybe the Trump administration will keep aspects of it.