Quote: (12-10-2014 03:47 AM)It_is_my_time Wrote:
It would be tough to vote for a Democrat that supported Obamacare. Obamacare will go down as one of the worst things to happen to the USA when history is written. It will be one of the highlights in the decline, along with women's voting rights, the failed war on poverty, and the invasion of Iraq.
Now if he were to come out and admit Obamacare is a disaster and that govt. for the most part cannot fix economic problems, other than to get out of the road and let the free market fix itself, then we would have a winner. Leftist economics are simply the taking of resources men EARN by the force of a govt. guns to their heads and giving them to women. We have already passed the tipping point and if he were to push for more of this, things would get very ugly, very fast. TBH, we don't have to push any further in this direction for things to get ugly, the status quo is more than enough to make things ugly. If we don't reverse this trend we will all suffer greatly. We simply cannot afford any more leftist economics.
Obamacare is an inefficient costly subsidy to the insurance companies (Wall Street) and the healthcare business, but what's your solution? The old non-system was also expensive and inefficient. Healthcare and insurance are cartels, not free markets. You can begin with the limitation on the number of medical schools and the other barriers to entry to medical education set in place by the AMA. The USA has the worst cost-to-outcome ratio in healthcare of any OECD country.
Pretty soon, there aren't going to be any jobs, except for the highest skilled engineers and managers, and the lowest-skilled service workers like cleaners. The employment base of the USA is being whittled away year-by-year, by globalization of manufacturing (Bangladesh garment sweatshops, Chinese electronics factories), outsourcing of services (Banglalore callcenters, Manila business processes offices), and automation (Amazon warehouse robots, voice recognition software in customer service, self-checkout in supermarkets). This is bigger than the transition from the small family farm to huge mechanized agribusinesses.
You have to be aware of a looming choice for America and the world. Either there will be wealth transfers from the owners of all of those capital investments to the un- and underemployed, or the owners will try to kill off or otherwise attrit the surplus population by mandatory birth control.
In the future, we'll almost all be on some kind of welfare, or we won't all be here. What else are we going to do - build bespoke cabinets, grow organic tomatoes, brew beer, write blogs for advertising clicks?