Well Daddy-O, you’re not alone. I was a rabid Obama supporter. Donated more money and volunteered more hours of work to his campaign than anyone else I know. But I AM beginning to wonder if it was a mistake!

The thing is, it’s easy to play would-could-shoulda. What if Hillary had won, but was stalling and playing wishy-wash as much as Obama is now? We’d be saying the same thing, just the other way around.

Lots of big talk, but the bribes will stop any significant action.

Well Daddy-O, you’re not alone. I was a rabid Obama supporter. Donated more money and volunteered more hours of work to his campaign than anyone else I know. But I AM beginning to wonder if it was a mistake!

The military was run efficiently up until the time that Bush privatized much of it. Once Bush started giving out no-bid billion dollar contracts for KBR to do what the military had done forever before, that’s when our money going to the military started going down a black hole.

And do you think that a privatized police force would be less likely to do these kind of things? Do you really want Blackwater mercenaries running our police departments?

We already have government health care. It’s called Medicare. And Medicare operates with a 4% overhead whereas for-profit health insurance operates at at 40% overhead.

And don’t come back and say that Medicare is in financial trouble. The only reason why Medicare is getting into financial trouble is because the baby boomers are hitting the system.

“This is an attempt to destroy public education…”

Amen, bruh. My wife is a reading specialist in a public school. Her entire family works or worked in public education–teachers, administrator, vice principal, etc. They know what works, and vouchers ain’t it, no matter how many happy stories about chartered schools, etc, make the media.

Vouchers wouldnt lower taxes, or save the government money. It does give people an option, like a public option health insurance plan would

I doubt Hillary would have done that, and she would have learned from BILL’S mistakes, too.

I also find myself wishing Obama had made her HHS Secretary instead of Secretary of State. Sure, the State job has all the prestige and power, but the idea is to best serve the American people. It just doesn’t pack the same punch to have Hillary commenting from State about universal health care.

I know, I know…I’m wishing for ponies. Don’t jump my sh*t too hard, Obama luvers. Wishing; that’s what comments are for SOMETIMES, ain’t they?

;-)

…no you don’t, I have never heard one complaint from anyone who has government healthcare…

…ever….case closed.

And federal tax comes from many areas as well, such as gasoline[18 cents a gallon] etc etc.

So that 1,736 yearly doesnt come directly out of your pocket but from consuming goods, business etc.

Lets say you are a typical family, two parents two or three kids.

Thats less than 3500 a year for two kids to be educated.

EXACTLY and the kids who are dyslexic or have ADD. They have a right to a public education but private schools dont have to take them so they dont have to pay the special ed teachers. Then we test and the rightwing can say see, private education does it better and cheaper. This is an attempt to destroy public education

I figure the spare money is in the same place that the “missing” money referenced earlier is.

A lot of the issues with the healthcare industry, aside from the obvious failures that we have all dealt with, stem from the fact that it is a for-profit industry. There’s a reason that some things are left to the government, and it’s not because it’s the most efficient way to do it, it’s because it’s the most accessible way to do it. People need an education, so we have public schools. Private schools compete with them, and you’re welcome to send your kids to one, but because the public ones exist, everyone has access to an education. Healthcare is no less important, and everyone should have access.