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To: TimF who wrote (68112)

4/23/2018 4:55:59 PM

From: koan

Respond to of 363409

I can see your problem you are starting from a false premise like other right wigners.

If you think they don't, just talk to a Canadian (who know both systems), or look at facts, or someone from a Nordic country, New Zealand, Australia or Iceland and much of Europe.

They are all ahead of us in almost everything civilized.

I was in New Zealand for 6 months and used their socialized medicine.

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If you want to say that, then you have to explain how other countries do it

Again they don't. First of all most countries in the world, even a number of the wealthier countries, spend less per person on social programs than the US government does. Secondly they can't afford what they have promised to spend either. Most of them also have budget deficits, often larger as a portion of the economy than the deficit in the US, and most of them also have built in to their existing law promises to pay out money that they simply won't be able to afford.