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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index
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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (199480)5/1/2009 2:36:31 PM
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<more concerned about debt> The looming financial catastrophe facing the USA in the not too distant future has its roots in the train wreck that is our health care 'system'. We cannot avoid a bloody financial crash in coming unless we are willing to fess up to how absolutely screwy the current system has become -- and show a little back bone in setting aside all this garbage about "socialism' versus free markets.

The simple fact is that on a national scale we have a horrible 'system' that delivers mediocre health care at an astronomical cost -- and that cost is heading to the moon in coming years unless we make fundamental changes. In addition to the cost in dollars, we have a 'system' that absolutely screws a huge number of people who have done nothing to deserve being screwed. We are going bankrupt because we can't get beyond the political and ideological crap and create a workable system of universal health care -- lets get on with it before it really is too late.

As for inter-generational warfare -- the person who is truly going to be fatally harmed by the current system is the guy who today, at 18, has no idea that the world around him is on the verge of financial meltdown. The 18 your old today will be at the epicenter of this storm in coming years. There is no you and me on this one -- there is only all of us making it right or going down with the ship.
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