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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (256748)

7/22/2014 11:21:44 AM

From: koan

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Well multiply the 4k times the 3,650,000 people added to the rolls of Medicare every year (and for the next 19 years) and we might be talking some serious money here. Money that could be better devoted to the next generation.>>

People pay for medicare. But do you think the 10 trillion will cover the difference?

<<The point I wish to make though is you assume that it is all possible to have all the "good" things --that we can have them all with no thought to how we can pay for them. >>

Are you kidding? I did budgets for the state for 20 years.

<<Is it realistic to think we can dismantle the military industrial complex in the present world? It's always been, over the last century, (save for maybe 25 "golden" years after WWII when our economy was basically the last one standing) a choice between "Guns" or "Butter"--with the politicians usually dividing it up into pieces--some for you over here and some for you over there.>>

If we can elect enough left wing liberals like Warren and Sanders and many others in the congress, we can dismantle the military industrial complex.

<<You are of course entitled to think we live in the possibility of bringing some "Eden" about, but I don't think it comports with the political reality and budget constraints we face in bringing this "Eden' about>>

If we don't try I can assure you it will never happen. Who knows what we can achieve? Who in 1850 saw the complex humane world we live in today?.

<<You want to tell me what the "KK" stood for in the post you addressed?>>

I thought you had figured out it was a typo. It was supposed to be OK.

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