Anyone even CONSIDERING Leftist economic policies should be forced to read Walter Williams a-la Clockwork Orange.
Posted on 08/12/2004 12:05:29 AM PDT by Lepidopteran
I am a swing voter, neither Republican nor Democrat. I supported President Bush in his response to September 11 and I supported the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. But I like John Kerry's message about the need to do something about the people in this country who have no health insurance. It's a hard choice.
Hard fact is, Kerry froze up during the Cold War ***Many leaders had a hand in Washington's Cold War triumph, but Ronald Reagan's contributions were pivotal, and Kerry opposed every one of them. Reagan's defense buildup disabused Soviet leaders of any hope that they could ultimately come out ahead of the United States. Kerry derided these military expenditures as "bloated" and "without any relevancy to the threat." In particular, Reagan's plan to seek a missile defense system against Soviet ICBMs and NATO's decision to station new missiles in Europe to counteract the new Soviet deployment there rendered futile the Kremlin's vast investment in nuclear supremacy. Instead of these measures, Kerry advocated that we adopt a one-sided "nuclear freeze."
Reagan also showed the Soviets that history was not necessarily on their side by ousting the erratic communist regime in Grenada and arming anti-communist guerrillas to challenge the leftist oligarchs of Nicaragua. Kerry condemned the U.S. action in Grenada as "a bully's show of force," and he opposed our support for guerrillas in Nicaragua as vociferously as anyone in the Senate, even traveling to Managua to try to cut a deal with Sandinista strongman Daniel Ortega to thwart Reagan's policy.
Reagan also put the United States on the ideological offensive when he branded the Soviet Union an "evil empire." But Kerry's harshest words were reserved for our own country, which he accused - during his years as an antiwar leader - of "crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command."***
I agree. Alot of these ZOT threads end up castigating the initial thread poster, rather than persuading that poster to vote for who they're voting for. It's the same thing with grassroots Get Out The Vote efforts.
Execrable, maudlin Bon Jovi song ahead.
INCOMING!
Don't say you weren't warned.
"If you're seriously thinking about who to vote for based not on the good of the country but your own pocketbook, you should probably vote for kerry"
you think Kerry taxing us death would be good for our wallets how?
Trial lawyers and lawsuits are driving doctors out of the business.
Fewer providers and more customers means higher prices
Government mandates and regulations that make the insurance more expensive. A single guy is not going to need coverage for a hysterectomy. But
government mandated it be covered and he has no choice. $$$$$ Its expensive to cover everything and without choices a lot of peiople choose to do
without.
John Kerry wants more lawsuits, more mandates and more regulations
Kerry is BAD medicine.
While I see your points in your #127, the fact remains that missionary work is not easy around 3:00AM CST.
Exactly. I just wrapped up a night of talking to voters at the county fair, and cajoling the populace into seeing things the way we see them. Don't exactly get to zot Joe Blow. You hope you can, in a short time, convince him voting for your guy is the right thing to do.
Yeah, particularly when the only ones up at 3:00 AM are snipers and milkmen! (A little 3rd World humor there)
What we need is to allow insurance companies and customers to be able to mold a policy to fit each individual. We need to stop the crazy lawsuits, mandates and regulations that harm doctors, companies and especially patients. We need less government interference and intrusion into the healthcare system.
I need my anti-Hussein gibes to be validated through positive reinforcement.
Insecure guy, to psychotherapist:
I NEED VALIDATION!!!
Man, that WAS bad.
I am not a Democrat plant. I'm just me, but no one here believes that. That's OK. Thank you all for teaching me a lesson I wish I had never learned.
Lepidopteran
New FReepers do not start out by posting vanities.... ever... they lurk... they comment... they post a few redundant threads.... and then they adopt the FReeper style of living....
Moby's follow the sign up, wait, make a few stupid comments, then post liberal slanted vanities....
I'm reading the formula....
I guess I should have used more examples but I would have to start googling.
There can't be any form of free health-care Lepidopteran.
If you did go with some government version, that would be socialism.
The cost of such socialism would be over 20% of every worker's check at least.
Not only that, but if it government controlled, the quality would go to cr@p.
I have lots of doctor friends and they say LAWSUITS are the reason for the higher costs and trial lawyers and their lawsuits need to be reformed and that will get what you would like to have done.
There is no such thing as free or subsidized health-care in Kerry's idea. The big plan is to have the government take it over and to then bill you through your salary for the pleasure of government ruining it.
That is a serious answer to you question.
Have any more detailed questions to ask, do so and I'll answer or go to sources to find answers for you.
Wait! He's only been in the Senate 20 years. Obviously not long enough to expect anything of him. ;-)
We also need to turn health insurance, for the most part, into something like a 401K. People need to have a personal stake in going to the doctor. Got the sniffles? Gonna cost ya to waste the doctor's time, not gonna be able to bill it to some generic company and forget it. Health has been missing the real free market for too long, which is why costs have skyrocketed.
Why a' no one respondez to my berry funny comment number 48?
It a' an hilarioso comment, no?(!)
It a' one a da funniest on a' dis "ZOT" tread, no?
Ima so sad, Ima go look ata my buttafly collecion.
(Weeping.)
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