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

To: Lane3 who wrote (17236)	4/22/2010 5:43:29 PM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Respond to of 42652

BREAKING: Health Care Reform Makes it Harder to Balance the Budget Apr 22 2010, 5:01 PM ET Who could possibly have predicted this shocking and totally unexpected turn of events? Senate Democrats released details Wednesday of a five-year budget plan that promises to narrow the deficit dramatically by 2015 but still accumulates almost $3.9 trillion more government debt over the same period. Trying to survive the political storm around them, Democrats would postpone the toughest decisions until after November's elections, when a presidential fiscal commission is scheduled to make its report to Congress. But there is no escaping the political bind that grips the party, exhausted from the debate over health care reform and under political pressure to extend Bush-era tax cuts. Health care ate up most of the available Medicare savings and popular tax offsets that might otherwise be tapped to narrow the deficit. And as a result, it's harder to dig out of the deficit hole, and little progress will be made in the short term absent a further surge in the economy. theatlantic.com

To: Lane3 who wrote (17236)	4/22/2010 5:57:49 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Maybe they hope their kids will grow up to be pirates and support the family that way... I'm only half joking with that. Yes there is horribly little opportunity, but if you don't have the kids your probably simply dead when you get old. Yes you may not survive to that point, yes you may not stay alive once your old even with kids to support you, but you increase your odds. Then you have the biological drive for sex, the cost, sometimes personal dislike, and perhaps cultural ideas against contraception, and the cultural belief in having lots of kids. And its not as if there is no opportunity for any form of income (including non-cash income). The countries population is not falling off a cliff. Even as one of the poorest nations in the world, people tend to find ways to survive and even to help out their family.