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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (8934)	9/1/2009 7:57:38 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

You are on the right track! There is a toll road over the hills south of Los Angeles heading for San Diego and I take that. It's fun to drive on, uncrowded, nice scenery, smooth, fewer criminals, higher average intelligence drivers so there is better driving. <Next we'll turn over the water department to the citizens. Everybody find their own water. Then, no speed limits or stop lights or road maintenance. An obvious infringement on our freedom of choice! We'll all maintain our own roads and everybody can drive as they damn well please.> Privately owned water suppliers would make sure the water was flowing. No water, no profits. It would be good quality and more expensive, but city taxes would go down. Here's how that would work. At present, most water supplies are owned by government departments and they don't charge as much as they could. If they raised the price until competitors started taking too much market share, and conservation became a drain on revenue, and cut the other taxes by the same amount, the total payments by citizens would be the same, but the efficiency would go way up and water conservation and competition would get under way. Then auction the water supplies to Exxon or anyone with loads of money who want to get into the water business. Use the money to pay off debts and don't waste it. Stop lights are not needed, just "give way here" lights meaning make sure you don't crash into the other traffic which has right of way. Stop signs could be taken down too and made into give way signs with one road having right of way, or put in a roundabout. There are not really any meaningful speed limits - going around corners, the only speed limit is "make sure you don't crash". So do away with speed limits. Build traps in roads so that dangerous drivers who are out of control crash into them and use their body parts [sold at auction] to help others. <First thing we do is pull those incompetent, lazy government workers off the fires in California. Let the brave and frugal citizens defend their homes, like real American pioneers! That's the ticket. > Leave people to fight their own fires, [or hire a fire service to do it for them], but leave them alone to cut down all the trees they like on their own property. Road maintenance would be done by the road owners. Make medical supplies a commercial transaction between willing buyers and sellers with governments enforcing contracts, punishing fraud and criminal activities. Mqurice

To: Road Walker who wrote (8934)	9/4/2009 3:23:54 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Ohhhhhhh, please. That was a pretty childish and sarcastic remark and well beneath you. FYI....a reminder: While discussing National Health Care, or anything else. U.S. Constitution - Preamble We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. The only real DIRECTIVE here is to provide for the comon defence.....and that includes not only our Military and those that support them, but the firefighters and policemen as well. OF COURSE, we need some Federal Employees, State Employees, and Municipal Employees. The question really is, do the Government various Departments we currently have fit into the US Constitution? Do the various Entitlements we have put into place fit into the US Constitution? In the 1970 census, we had a population in the US of 203.3 Million people. The Census Bureau time clock as of tonight suggests we have about 307.3 Million. ( I just looked these numbers up tonight.) This is an increase of about 104 Million people, or about 1/3 more than we had nearly 40 years ago. Did the number of Federal workers shrink percentage-wise, or did it grow? If so, by what percent? And how many of those employees supported the Entitlements the Government has already created...? These numbers would be even before the advent of another HUGE Government entitlement program.