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catty, once again i point out i lost my temper at that point and that you are misreading what i was saying, thats why i tried to clarify in a following post what i was saying, i will try to make it even clearer now. What i was saying is that when you have a Lower house that disagrees with both the upper house and the Executive branch as a whole it can be a good thing, in fact that it is there as a check to ballance the power of the other two. Remove that check because it refuses to kow tow to the other two and you start down a slope to totalitarianism.
Also Catty, there are things that are done at different levels of Government, you dont see the federal government running local firefighters, no its a city county and town issue and they charge specific taxes to fund them, or like where i live you have, (oh my gods,) Vollenteer Fire Departments where the equipment is paid for by donations, fundraising amongst the community, and other local things. Same goes for the police, the Federal Government has certain requirements and responsibilities, its when they step outside those bounds that they push the boundaries of big S Socialism.
The current healthcare law is severly flawed and the only reason it passed in the first place was that the democrats controlled all three houses. The smarter thing would have been to do an insurance version of Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac. Oh wait, they already did, its called MEDICAID, its for those people that cant afford any insurance. what this was was a power grab plain and simple, something to FORCE people to buy something they didnt necessary want or need, and be forced onto the government exchanges where the government could siphon the money off the fund other hair brained schemes.
Now i ask you all, WHY, why should the government step in and take control of health care, do you really think the politicians and their beurocrats can actually do a better job than the private sector? Where has that really ever happened and been cost effective. Tell me how well it works in Canada and Britain when the people who can afford it are coming to the US to have their operations done and those that cant suffer until the next budgetary year allows the hospitals to actually afford to do things for them. Those who have a coronary blockage and instead of getting a Bypass operation get a stent and a smile and told to come back at a later date. Personally i have to deal with the VA which is bad enough at times, thats GOVERNMENT RUN MEDICAL, i go in and tell them i need to see a doctor, they tell me that they will set me an appointment and inform me by mail when it is. I dont see a doctor that day, i dont even see a corpman, i get told after a 5 hour wait that they will set me an appointment and notify me when it is. I go to that appointment 3 months later, (i dare not miss it, and its at their convenience), and they decide i need an MRI (finally, not like i havent been telling them that for three years), another 3 months later i get scanned by the MRI and told they'll inform me when i can see the Orthopedist for the explanation, another 3 months down the road i finally see the Orthopedist, and he tells me that they wont work on my knees, (surgery of any kind or injections) that i'll be mailed a brace to wear, and that i need to find another job where i'm not having to be a human forklift.
9 months to be told something i already knew and told i'll be mailed a brace, (its been a month and a half and i havent seen it yet) in a shitty economy and a navy town where the employee exchange was 700% when the economy was GOOD, no thank you, let the private sector handle it, they'll at least tell you your screwed in a timely manner.
Now that i have that out of my system, Ordinance i've been trying to find a way to phrase my answer to the Talladega head start issue that didnt make me seem like a heartless son of bitch, unfortunately i've failed. Question for those parents and single mothers; Since your kid had to be three to go into head start, WHAT DID YOU DO BEFORE THEN? and for the program itself, get other funding, ask for the local churches to make donations, local businesses as well, Talladega Raceway is great about making donations for programs like that, dont base your entire budget on a government largess that might have to GO AWAY.
like i said, makes me seem like a cold hearted bastard, but its true.
catty, once again i point out i lost my temper at that point and that you are misreading what i was saying, thats why i tried to clarify in a following post what i was saying, i will try to make it even clearer now. What i was saying is that when you have a Lower house that disagrees with both the upper house and the Executive branch as a whole it can be a good thing, in fact that it is there as a check to ballance the power of the other two. Remove that check because it refuses to kow tow to the other two and you start down a slope to totalitarianism.
Also Catty, there are things that are done at different levels of Government, you dont see the federal government running local firefighters, no its a city county and town issue and they charge specific taxes to fund them, or like where i live you have, (oh my gods,) Vollenteer Fire Departments where the equipment is paid for by donations, fundraising amongst the community, and other local things. Same goes for the police, the Federal Government has certain requirements and responsibilities, its when they step outside those bounds that they push the boundaries of big S Socialism.
The current healthcare law is severly flawed and the only reason it passed in the first place was that the democrats controlled all three houses. The smarter thing would have been to do an insurance version of Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac. Oh wait, they already did, its called MEDICAID, its for those people that cant afford any insurance. what this was was a power grab plain and simple, something to FORCE people to buy something they didnt necessary want or need, and be forced onto the government exchanges where the government could siphon the money off the fund other hair brained schemes.
Now i ask you all, WHY, why should the government step in and take control of health care, do you really think the politicians and their beurocrats can actually do a better job than the private sector? Where has that really ever happened and been cost effective. Tell me how well it works in Canada and Britain when the people who can afford it are coming to the US to have their operations done and those that cant suffer until the next budgetary year allows the hospitals to actually afford to do things for them. Those who have a coronary blockage and instead of getting a Bypass operation get a stent and a smile and told to come back at a later date. Personally i have to deal with the VA which is bad enough at times, thats GOVERNMENT RUN MEDICAL, i go in and tell them i need to see a doctor, they tell me that they will set me an appointment and inform me by mail when it is. I dont see a doctor that day, i dont even see a corpman, i get told after a 5 hour wait that they will set me an appointment and notify me when it is. I go to that appointment 3 months later, (i dare not miss it, and its at their convenience), and they decide i need an MRI (finally, not like i havent been telling them that for three years), another 3 months later i get scanned by the MRI and told they'll inform me when i can see the Orthopedist for the explanation, another 3 months down the road i finally see the Orthopedist, and he tells me that they wont work on my knees, (surgery of any kind or injections) that i'll be mailed a brace to wear, and that i need to find another job where i'm not having to be a human forklift.
9 months to be told something i already knew and told i'll be mailed a brace, (its been a month and a half and i havent seen it yet) in a shitty economy and a navy town where the employee exchange was 700% when the economy was GOOD, no thank you, let the private sector handle it, they'll at least tell you your screwed in a timely manner.
Now that i have that out of my system, Ordinance i've been trying to find a way to phrase my answer to the Talladega head start issue that didnt make me seem like a heartless son of bitch, unfortunately i've failed. Question for those parents and single mothers; Since your kid had to be three to go into head start, WHAT DID YOU DO BEFORE THEN? and for the program itself, get other funding, ask for the local churches to make donations, local businesses as well, Talladega Raceway is great about making donations for programs like that, dont base your entire budget on a government largess that might have to GO AWAY.
like i said, makes me seem like a cold hearted bastard, but its true.