My apologies in advance, this is going to be along post but one that I feel is important for people to understand.

Its interesting that I posted about this very subject on another board about a week ago. Since it is all fresh in my mind I will point out a few things that many haven't figured out yet.
1st, It matters little who the president is. He has has the option to pass or veto legislation but your congresscritters are the ones who ultimately do the writing of these things. There's also little difference between dems and republicans anymore. In the end they all want the same thing. Socialism.

There's another thread here asking about what freedoms we have lost. I was going to post there but decided this was a better place to make some points.
How about the freedom to take care and provide for myself without government interference? How about personal choice? Do i really need the government o do everything or provide everything for me? There's a pattern here. The more you ask of government the more they will provide and the more they will tax and the more they will destroy.
Remember the power to tax is the power to destroy and a government that is big enough to give you everything is also big enough to take it away.


Now to get down to the facts.
26% of the US is on food stamps. 30% of the US will be retired in the next 30 years. The us had a federal debt load of over 10 trillion dollars. Unfunded liabilities for SS medicare and medicaid are around 55 trillion right now and its not even spoken about by either of the candidates..

Why does all of this matter? Because in order to pay off all this debt we are already carrying every man woman and child in the US would need to write a check to the government for 175,000.00 today. I'm sure many of you have that extra cash lying around but I don't. You'll see how all of this ties in shortly.

Lets look at insurance.. What a fiasco. Ok, heres the deal. This is how insurance should work. First car insurance. If I decide I want to carry insurance to protect my assets that a personal choice. If I don't have any assetts why should I need to carry any insurance. The popular argument seems to be , what if you have an accident and dont have insurance? The answer is I get sued for damages. What if the other guy gets hurt, who's going to pay for him? Did the other guy have insurance? Did he have assetts to protect? If he had something worth protecting then it is his responsibility to get insurance if he so chooses.
In order to understand this fully you also have to understand wh was responsible for getting these insurance laws passed. The lawyers and the insurance companies. Why? Because the lawyers need someone to sue. If i dont have insurance, and I dont have any assetts is there much incentive for an attorney to take a case? He may never get paid. If he is suing the ins. companies he is gaurenteed a payday.

Why do insurance companies want everyone to have ins? It lowers their risk exposure. If there wasn't a mandatory requirement than probably 1/2 or more of all the people would drop their insurance. Now the insurance companies would have to manage their risk very carefully.

What happens now when an 18 yo gets into an accident and does 500k in damage? Yes his rates go up but the reality is he will never pay 500k in premiums for his entire life!!! So the same kid gets back in his car a year later knowing that all that happened last accident was an increase in his premiums. He now goes out and gets into another accident and costs another 500k . Insurance company is now on the hook for a million from this one person. 2 things to be learned from this. 1) The kid obviously isnt going to be driving more careful. there's no incentive to. 2) The insurance company will get their money back just not all from him. How? Higher premiums for everyone. Basically we have socialized insurance already.

I know the popular argument is that its better this way because if you get really hurt then at least you will get your medical bills paid and get a settlement out of it. My response to that is it is your responsibility to make the decision to carry that insurance or not. If you have awife and kids and a house and other assets than of course it makes a lot of sense to carry insurance. If not then you should at least have the ability to decide if you want the risk or not. Its called freedom to choose.

Health insurance. Same basic principle. Carry it or dont carry it, its your choice. If you don't carry it the hospitals will still get paid. As you know already, if you have insurance your bils are higher than if you pay cash. Now imagine if everyone paid cash? People would bitch up a storm when they got the bill 1200 for an emergency room visit. Now, people just look at the bill and say, wow glad i have insurance. Again gaurenteed profit for the health care industry. It no secret why the health care industry wants a system where the government will reimburse them for every claim. They can charge almost anything they want and will not get screamed at on the other side of the phone when and Irate patient calls to complain about the bill.

Why are health care costs skyrocketing? An aging population on medicare and medicaid. Government benefits and they know they can charge whatever they want within reason and get paid. Why did the drug companies lobby so hard to get the prescription drug bill passed? They knew they would be on the government gravy train if it passed and they were right. As soon as it passed it added aprox 20 trillion to the unfunded liabilities in this country. That trillion with a capital Fucking T. Does anyone get it yet? All these socialized programs are being pushed on us by the big corps so they can pad their fucking bottom lines. How many goddamn drugs do we need in this country. Of all people the people here should understand this. How many new diseases do we create every year? Do you hear some of this shit they come up with on these drugomercials?
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Ok so its an extreme example but you get the point. I'll give you an example of the opposite extreme.

In Cuba they have socialized medicine or free healthcare. Yes it sucks. As with most of Cuba it is like being back in the 50's. I love the people and the culture for many reasons but they do have shitty healthcare. If we compare the 2 countries we find the following.
America was the richest nation on earth. Cuba is one of the poorest. Cuba has a lower infant mortality rate. Cuba has a lower rate of diabietes and heart disease. Cub has a slightly higher life expectancy.

How can this be? America spends more per capita than 90% of the rest of the world on health care? How about corporate profits?

If you really want socialized medicine than the only way is to make them government 100%. No corporate involvement at all and no profit motive at all. Anything less than that is merely making corporate profits socialized at the expense of you and me.

Ok, there are more arguments in here as well, like what about people who don't work, who pays for them ect.. Those are smaller points we can deal with but first we have to understand the big picture.

My own opinion, let me make my own choices. That's freedom.

America is bankrupt. We cant afford socialism anymore. You can fight about the dems and repubs and in fact that's exactly what corporate America wants. It takes your attention away from the big picture which is what I described above. The corps are raping us every chance they get. They spend lots of money on lobbyists an get the laws changed so they can make more money.

Oh and by the way, its already been decided by the Supreme court that mandatory health insurance is unconstitutional. I know they have it here in Ma but it doesn't change the facts. There was an article in the USA today late last year with Ma as an example and they mentioned i there as well. How did ma get around it? They didn't, If you don't carry insurance it a 180.00 fine for the year. Pay that or hire a lawyer to go to court at 300 an hour.

I'll stop here for now, but I hope you can all understand what is really happening here and why its important to wake up as a nation and stop playin this petty party politics BS.