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Joshua Cook
Aug 22, 2009, 5:06 pm
Here's the bottom line: free market is there reason laborers can't get health care. This system is broken and it needs to be fixed. Bush didn't fix it in the 8 years he was in office and Palin wasn't going to fix it had she been capable of actually locating DC on a map. Democratic or Republic, the absolute bottom line is - we need to do something. I feel the next American Idol is more important than whether or not I can afford health care. Why are we such a powerful nation, and yet people can still go their whole lives without ever being able to afford health care? Someone mentioned that we should be more family like - yet we refuse to help others. This is an every man for himself nation and it seems that it is going to stay that way. I bet that everyone here complaining about how much Obama is spending didn't say so when Bush was spending. You have to think for yourselves, not what your chosen party thinks for you. There isn't a black and white way of looking at this - both ...
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Joshua Cook
Aug 23, 2009, 4:26 pm
So, anything counteracting a free market stand point is instantly communism? Why is that word thrown around so much when considering republicans? You talk bad about a republican and you must be a communist. Lets get something straight, what I said was the current system is broken. I did not say that we should just hand money out to people, but I did say that everyone should have the option for health care. When did the ideals of America become so selfish? When did the phrase "land of the free" become synonymous with "step on your neighbor to get ahead"? The bottom line is, if you don't have enough money, you wont get quality health care. Period. Yeah, you can be seen by the emergency room if something horrible happens, but you wont get preventative medicine and you wont get after care. I've seen an alarming trend in America: we will pay for military, we will pay for prisons, we will pay for power over foreign parties, but we wont pay for schools, we wont pay for out police a...
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Joshua Cook
Sep 8, 2009, 2:12 pm
Weird that "No Child Left Behind" is perfectly accepted (a government initiated standard unit of measure for our schools) doesn't seem a socialistic ideal to further a political career when Bush came up with it. Or that reading in front of school kids was perfectly normal for Bush. It seems if Obama does what Bush did, he's a socialist. If Obama does something different, he's a socialist. I realize that the last thing this country wants to pay for is school and medical for the betterment of it's fellows, but seriously? I have a feeling that if Bush had come up with this reform he'd be saint in the eyes of his other fellow greedy conservatives.
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