Problem with Obamacare is in states like mine the Republicans gimped the system to where only one or two companies offer coverage. This is because the Republicans have sabotaged pretty much every single thing having to do with it. If people were taxed a little more, in whatever form that might be (personally I say tax the hell out of cigarettes and weed, after the weed is rescheduled and whatnot) the costs would offset one another.
Decrease military spending, pull back our military, invest in education and infrastructure, overhaul the healthcare system, and stop our companies from leaving the US. If we saved a few bilion by not building jets that are out of date by the time they are done, we might have more money to spend on things that mattered, like training our citizens to live in the 21st century - by increasing our skilled labor and education we can create a healthier population that won't get diabetes from stuffing their faces with Crispy Cream Donuts. They might not get their news from Prisonplanet and Fox "News" either.
Rich folks don't understand the plight of the poor and sick. They are too worried about buying their HUMMER and getting NOSE JOBS. I have found that at times the ones that have lots of things, are selfish/stingy and don't care much about what happens to other people. The ones that lack often are very giving. This is why you see poor people at church giving way too much money when the plate is passed around. Anecdotal evidence aside (don't care) much can be said about the difference in thinking.
People like Trump don't help out much, like "cheating" their taxes (blame the system here) and giving a measly 1 million buck to Veterans, acting like you just did some great deed. A million bucks to Trump is like me donating one hundred - as generous as throwing a half eaten sandwich to a homeless person. I changed my political beliefs as I got older. I used to think like some of the local Trumpeans. Over time experience brings about wisdom and you see people often switch parties.
What does all of this mean? It means that some of you haven't the foggiest idea what the fuck you are talking about. The greatest country in the world, right? American dream? Dead as fuck. Welcome to the 21st century version of this
Here are some old statistics about how great we are..
The United States once had the highest proportion of young adults with post-secondary degrees in the world. Today, the U.S. has fallen to 12th. (Education.)
In the 2009 “prosperity index” published by the Legatum Institute, the United States was ranked as just the ninth most prosperous country in the world. That was down five places from 2008.
In 2001, the United States ranked fourth in the world in per capita broadband Internet use. Today it ranks 15th. This is bullshit.
The economy of India is projected to become larger than the U.S. economy by the year 2050.
One prominent economist now says that the Chinese economy will be three times larger than the U.S. economy by the year 2040. "Communism".
The United States has lost approximately 42,400 factories since 2001. THEY TOOK OUR JERBS!
The United States has lost a staggering 32 percent of its manufacturing jobs since the year 2000.
Manufacturing employment in the U.S. computer industry is actually lower in 2010 than it was in 1975.
The television manufacturing industry began in the United States. So how many televisions are manufactured in the United States today? According to Princeton University economist Alan S. Blinder, the grand total is zero.
As of the end of 2009, less than 12 million Americans worked in manufacturing. The last time that less than 12 million Americans were employed in manufacturing was in 1941.
Back in 1980, the United States imported approximately 37 percent of the oil that we use. Now we import nearly 60 percent of the oil that we use.
The U.S. trade deficit is running about 40 or 50 billion dollars a month in 2010. That means that by the end of the year approximately half a trillion dollars (or more) will have left the United States for good.
Between 2000 and 2009, America’s trade deficit with China increased nearly 300 percent.
American 15-year-olds do not even rank in the top half of all advanced nations when it comes to math or science literacy. Maybe this is why so many believe in a 6000 year old planet with Jesus riding Velociraptors.
The United States has the third worst poverty rate among the advanced nations tracked by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Since the Federal Reserve was created in 1913, the U.S. dollar has lost over 95 percent of its purchasing power. THE FEDERAL RESERVE FINANCES WARS ON BOTH SIDES!
U.S. government spending as a percentage of GDP is now up to approximately 36 percent.
The Congressional Budget Office is projecting that U.S. government public debt will hit 716 percent of GDP by the year 2080.
We're seventh in literacy, 27th in math, 22nd in science, 49th in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, third in median household income, No. 4 in labor force, and No. 4 in exports. ... So when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I don't know what the f*** you're talking about.
What you might not realize is when you aren't spending $100,00 on college/cancer treatment you don't have to cry about more taxes. You are fucking living at a higher degree of comfort. Immigrants aren't taking your jobs. The wealthy are by sending jobs overseas. People act like Democratic Socialism is some failed experiment or "one step away from Communism" as if that is a bad thing.
How about we start another war by false flag operation or coup/proxies so we can sacrifice more veterans health and welfare *sarcasm? Or let more CEO's get their $300 million dollar bonuses after breaking the law to make that money. While our citizens suffer in the street, and die from curable diseases with expensive treatments, people are living it large and saying "Get over it lol."...
Not only that but trickle down economics doesn't work. It adds to debt and then sensible Democrats have to come into power and settle the bill. But no let's elect someone who doesn't know how to manage money and fails constantly and complain about cliques in politics which is inevitable if you put people into a workplace...
Why don't we go back to the gold standard? Oh, because IOU's wouldn't be effective anymore and the banks/government would have to actually deal fairly. How about we get rid of all these crooked politicians and elect normal people into power? Not really since they are people just like politicians.
How can we be unemployed if we need about a zillion (accurate) roads/bridges/dams rebuilt? Maybe we could stop wasting so much damn money on rebuilding countries we explode (grammar) or hurricanes destroy because of rampant global warming (science) so things are a little more kosher.
Is American the "bad" guy?
To think that the thing America was so afraid of, is the better way to live.
HAHAHAHAHAA!
PS. While we are at it, maybe the media could quit hyping nonsense like the Iranians being an actual threat, or Russia always being the aggressor.
"If you need the feds to hold your hand through life you are already fucked and just don't know it yet."
We Germans or 'Eurotards' and you Americans in particular, are soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo depending on the all controlling government, that we can't even hold our own dicks to take a piss without their help. And we're probably paying some kind of tax for that one too.
But you didn't just use a hyperbole. You said directly that anyone who disagrees with you clearly must be a 17 year old fresh out of High School with zero job experience in their life. You went on a big fucking tirade against people right out of high school with no finincial experience when no one fucking was! You just MADE IT UP! Who here said they were 17/18? Who said they were right out of High School? Who here do you have any proof of no financial experience? NO BODY. So basically you just straight up lied about anyone who disagrees with you and said they're not worth arguing with based on this assumption and labels you attached to them with no proof except those made up in your head. To did the biggest, most pathetic cop out in the world "oh yea well-well you're a big fat doody head so there no reason to even argue with you haha looks like I win ;^)" Not to mention you fucking continue to use your own, personal, anecdotal, life experiences that you yourself experienced and are now using them as the end all be all of how things work.
Then you go on and say that people your age aren't worth debating because of your made up strawman arguments that no one fucking said. No one said all taxation was robbery you mong. That's a fucking strawman you invented yourself. No one fucking said they hate all poor people and want to leave them to die. It's fucking insulting the level of lies and slander you will throw at your opponents to slimely get out of a debate.
Apparently everyone who disagrees with you now is a 17 year old high school student whose never worked a job, hates the poor with a burning passion and thinks that any and all taxation is theft and wants to live in total anarchy.
You live in a fucking bubble if you seriously think this way and if you don't you're being incredibly intellectually dishonest by attaching all these labels and strawmen that they never said to people and debasing their actual arguments based on this fiction.
The point is, since I guess that you support Trump you also support his tax program, why do you believe that LOWERING taxes, will help in solving the issue?
Because his tax plan will put more money in the actual economy and keep companies from relocating out of the country taking jobs and money away whilst also renegotiating trade deals where we have massive, billions upon billions of dollars of deficits.
Not to mention cracking down on illegal immigrants whom the country spends billions on supporting every year with a price that dwarfs the size of the cost of the wall. http://cis.org/Cost-Welfare-Immigrant-Native-Households
Solving the country's problems is a little bit more complicated than "just raise taxes!" sorry to say.
"If you need the feds to hold your hand through life you are already fucked and just don't know it yet."
We Germans or 'Eurotards' and you Americans in particular, are soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo depending on the all controlling government, that we can't even hold our own dicks to take a piss without their help. And we're probably paying some kind of tax for that one too.
Sorry, if I answer to something that I think is kinda ridiculous, with an hyperbole.
The point is, since I guess that you support Trump you also support his tax program, why do you believe that LOWERING taxes, will help in solving the issue?
Take a deep breath there. I was talking about the responsiveness of the state over the federal gov't - all that other noise is you projecting.
I realize people get all worked up about the election, but it doesn't really matter. The interesting things in terms of legislation all happen on a state and local level - from gay marraige and pot legalization on one side, to fracking on the other - there are both progressive and pro-business policies taking place in states. Washington, not so much. I can't speak to all that other noise you mentioned.
Well considering he's a business man whose made billions doing that and our current deals are complete dogshit where we lose massive amounts of money..... maybe we should get someone who can actually and effectively make trade deals that don't fuck us over?
We lose so much just from things like NAFTA alone, it's not that negotiating trade deals is new, it's getting someone whose not a blithering retard who puts us into deals where we get fucked over that's new.
I'd much rather have a President who fucks over other countries for America's gain than one who fucks over America for other countries' gain.
Then again when you say shit like this
Where being one step away from literal Communism isn't a bad thing and you act like your epic and shocking revelation that "America has problems u guise" is some kind of amazing breakthrough as you offer no real solutions besides vague platitudes like saying fuck all rich people and that illegal immigrants dont actually cost that much as you offer 0 proof of anything you say.
Which is also new to the table I guess ... What makes Trump so 'special' that he will do something no one ever before him even thought about doing? Is Obama a chinese sleeper agent or something? Was Bush making bad deals with Iraq? As you said, it's a little bit more complicated than just that. I mean yeah, all those nations that got 'fucked' will simply let Trump fuck with them, why? Cuz you can't Trump the Trump.
Which is also new to the table I guess ... What makes Trump so 'special' that he will do something no one ever before him even thought about doing? Is Obama a chinese sleeper agent or something? Was Bush making bad deals with Iraq?.
Because they're corrupt puppets to their donors.
Have you even bothered to read anything Wikileaks has been releasing or is this your usual "its evidence I dont like and doesn't fit my narritive I'm not gonna read it shitlord"?
I get when you hyper leftys engage in real arguments instead of strawmen and ad hominems you get utterly destroyed but at least try to not force the conversation to end by rampant shitposting?