[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

It is sad that some government efforts don't get the opportunity to run their course. On the other hand, reaganomics got a nearly thirty year run, in which it had plenty of time to show it's merits and warts. In the long run, it has created serious financial difficulties.

We have put someone into office who is a pragmatic executive. The administration wants to do some things that actually fit into the free market economy - provide some competiton for the insurance companies. Because there is so much concentration of capital in insurance companies, it would be difficult for others to enter the market as effectively as the feds. The insurance companies are afraid of competing with an entity that will not be skimming off enormous profits.

Despite the President's incremental approach to change - the change the voters said they wanted -the GOP has done everything in its power to prevent change. Even the alternative bill that they offered is simply a rehash of failed measures that had been introduced and passed in the house but failed in the senate. These were the measures the republicans offered before the voters threw plenty of the bums out.

Instead of giving the President any opportunity to implement the mandate he received from the voters, they misrepresent his programs as socialism, while they desparately try to hang on to reaganism. Unfortunately, we simply cannot afford to live on borrowed money any more. We can't afford to let the bankers and their cronies to regulate themselves. There has to be a recognition that maximizing profits is the only value that is important (Notice that I did not say making a profit). We have to try something other than reaganomics.

Regards,

D-Ray

(Weeping)
Beautiful, just beautiful. I'm gonna have to sleep on this. But I could have said any better.

Cordially,
Dave