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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (64265)	4/3/2018 12:49:54 PM
From: Sam	3 Recommendations Recommended By bentway John Koligman Mannie Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 364348

There is an incredible amount of BS in that post. Some of it just deeply misleading, some outright false. The "public" forms of these programs, both of them, have failed, de facto. Because they have failed to be able to finance the programs they were designed to finance.... GWB tried to offer a private option on what amounts to 4% of SS tax revenue (the employee's share) in 2006 Gee, good sweet GWB tried to save SS in 2006. Really? You want to go there? I know you have said in the past you have a short attention span, so you probably don't recall that when he was elected, the budget was in such good shape that people were projecting surpluses as far as the eye could see and that the entire debt would be paid off within a few years. If Dubya had actually been interested in saving SS, he wouldn't have passed those huge tax cuts in his first term that undermined the budget and he would have paid for the useless war he conducted against Iraq, which enriched his "base" and destroyed the budget. But enriching his base in the military industrial complex and destroying the budget to ensure as best as he could were his priorities. "You shall know them by their actions." There would have been plenty of money to deal with both SS and Medicare if a responsible person had been president. It wasn't SS and Medicare that have failed, it is the Republican leadership that has failed. So cut your crap. Your brain is addled if you believe anyone with a memory actually believes your nonsense. Medicare is the principal driver of health care costs within the private system, as it is blatantly obvious that it cannot coexist with the private system Yeah, I know, the US is exceptional in that it is the only developed country in the world that has a medical system with out of control costs and it just so happens to be the only developed country in the world where the insurance system is employer based except for people over the age of 65. Whatever could be the reason for those out of control costs? You conclude with your usual logic it must be due to the the government meddling in the system, even though every other country in the world somehow manages to have at least as good outcomes as the US (and usually better outcomes, especially when life expectancy and infant mortality are compared) with their public systems. Gosh, Dave, you must be right. I take it back. You are like a genius. You should be writing a book with your astonishing logic, the country and the world will be in your debt.