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[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by merrylander

Funny how our neighbours to the north can afford universal heathcare and Old Age Pensions for all yet we, allegedly the richest country in the world with the best system extant, can't quite seem to manage it. Are we just stupid or what?

Here, we have people who will hand out tax cuts to people who don't need them, claim the resulting lack of revenues is proof of "failure" of said programs, then denounce these things as "so(c)ialism" and attempt to privatize them......which is contrary to the purpose of having such programs in the first place. Which is, of course, to keep them seperate from and free of market fluctuations and crashes.

Many of our Parents and Grandparents understood this. That's why they voted for men like FDR and Lyndon Johnson and protected SS and Medicare for so many years. After all, they got to see what happens in the real world when the market shits and push comes to shove between the haves and have-nots. But, my generation is full of Reaganite stooges who think the wealthy want to see that we have whatever we need. And they will not learn until the market crashes and they end up standing in line at the foodbank trailer, begging for table scraps or diving dumpsters. Because the rich don't really give a flying shit about any of us.

Regards,
Dave