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Politics : A Real American President: Donald Trump -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (146725)	7/17/2019 6:43:22 PM
From: Smiling Bob	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 455151

Everything has a trade-off What's alternative to medicare for all? Let people die? Increased costs of emergency and delayed medical care? Lost productivity. Health care costs should be tied to health. Make effort to educate, eat right and take care of yourself before you expect basic subsidized or free health care. From every angle, "an ounce of prevention..." Premium service can be optional at a cost Alternative to undereducated populace? Inability to compete. Lower earnings =more subsidies, so we pay on the back end anyway. So nothing wrong with free basic/state/community college to those who EARN the right to it, just like high school. Do you think only those who can afford it should be able to attend college? Why free HS? Same thing here. Premium/private HS optional at a cost. Loan forgiveness? No. Community service? Yes. Much like military but elsewhere. Reparations? While there is a legitimate argument to be made this country was built on the backs of slaves, it would bankrupt the US. Slavery, war, and other atrocities have been part of the history of mankind. I'm old enough to remember blatant segregation and repression and certainly understand "white privilege" and BLM. I also understand that a person with brown skin encounters negative stereotyping in a white world and therefore they have more hurdles to succeed in a white world. But ultimately, there are limitless opportunities for anyone to succeed, no matter the skin color.