Why do you worry about the tax payer's money being used to help fellow citizens, when it obviously didn't worry a single Conservative when the money was being used for a war that cost 300,000 American soldiers their lives. Don't get it.
Living well under that evil $250k cap, my husband and I are already paying between 30 - 35 percent of our income to taxes
If I lived in Germany, I would most likely have to pay 48% of my tiny income plus the money for the insurance. Do I complain? No, because the other 80 million citizens are doing exactly the same and they are, in fact, my safety net if I get sick.
Imagine this: You're healthy and just paying more and more and more, just for the sick ones to use it. Okay, fine, I can understand why you'd be pissed to be giving away all that money. I know I would be.
Ten years from now, the doctor tells you you have cancer. And instead of worrying how to get all the money needed and thinking about having to sell your house and your car, all the healthy folks (that are thinking exactly what I described above) are paying your medical bills.
It's ridiculous a word like "medical debt" even has to exist in a country like the U.S. I also know French, German and Spanish and "medical debt" exists in none of these languages.
And, for most people, medical debt on the level you are suggesting -- a simple doctor visit for a script -- is entirely manageable.
Is it? My sister works two jobs and neither one of them provides healthcare. She has a boyfriend with an alcohol problem who she has to care for... Not so affordable anymore, I can tell you that. The result: She's moving to Germany this summer to work here. That's how you lose your workers, it's that easy. Of course, the other way to lose your workers is to just let them die from an entirely curable diseases. Those things should be in a book called "How to screw up your economy".
I resent the fact that Congress seems to think that I cannot manage my life: They are now mandating what type of health coverage I should have, what foods I should eat, and how I should spend my income. Rather than this, they should be lowering my taxes, cutting small businesses a break, and encouraging other faculties that enable the American dream. All they accomplish now is smothering it.
Okay, I understand that. Like I said, on certain fiscal issues, I'm more of a Conservative than anything else. I agree with you that the small and medium-sized businesses are really what make an economy strong. The thing is - certain branches of the American economy (take GM for example) were no more than a huge bubble - and about two and half years ago, the bubble burst and threw the economy into the black hole that it's in now.
We are a nation built upon the ideas of personal responsibility in the "pursuit of happiness."
I get it, you're the United States of America, you want to do your own thing and let everybody do what they want. And you're perfectly capable of that under normal circumstances. But sometimes, it doesn't work like that - maybe that's the reason why the U.S. is still trying to find the "road to recovery", while the rest of the world already has recovered.
We have been the "beacon of light" which serves as an example to other industrialized nations... They should look to us, not we to them.
I'm not very religious, but I do know that one of the seven deadly sins is "Pride". The world changes constantly and for once, the U.S. is not the center of the world and is not who everybody looks to. Is that so bad? I doubt it, let the others have their say for a while, it'll change again, it's just a question of 'when'.
I know you probably won't care, but... The U.S. mission in Iraq was allegedly to "spread democracy", right? So, if you're so keen on democracy, why aren't you living it?
And one last thing: You're not happy with your President, but you should at least be a little grateful that thanks to him, the rest of the world doesn't consider you total douchebags anymore. If nothing else, you can give him credit for that.
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Living well under that evil $250k cap, my husband and I are already paying between 30 - 35 percent of our income to taxes
If I lived in Germany, I would most likely have to pay 48% of my tiny income plus the money for the insurance. Do I complain? No, because the other 80 million citizens are doing exactly the same and they are, in fact, my safety net if I get sick.
Imagine this: You're healthy and just paying more and more and more, just for the sick ones to use it. Okay, fine, I can understand why you'd be pissed to be giving away all that money. I know I would be.
Ten years from now, the doctor tells you you have cancer. And instead of worrying how to get all the money needed and thinking about having to sell your house and your car, all the healthy folks (that are thinking exactly what I described above) are paying your medical bills.
It's ridiculous a word like "medical debt" even has to exist in a country like the U.S. I also know French, German and Spanish and "medical debt" exists in none of these languages.
And, for most people, medical debt on the level you are suggesting -- a simple doctor visit for a script -- is entirely manageable.
Is it? My sister works two jobs and neither one of them provides healthcare. She has a boyfriend with an alcohol problem who she has to care for... Not so affordable anymore, I can tell you that. The result: She's moving to Germany this summer to work here. That's how you lose your workers, it's that easy. Of course, the other way to lose your workers is to just let them die from an entirely curable diseases. Those things should be in a book called "How to screw up your economy".
I resent the fact that Congress seems to think that I cannot manage my life: They are now mandating what type of health coverage I should have, what foods I should eat, and how I should spend my income. Rather than this, they should be lowering my taxes, cutting small businesses a break, and encouraging other faculties that enable the American dream. All they accomplish now is smothering it.
Okay, I understand that. Like I said, on certain fiscal issues, I'm more of a Conservative than anything else. I agree with you that the small and medium-sized businesses are really what make an economy strong. The thing is - certain branches of the American economy (take GM for example) were no more than a huge bubble - and about two and half years ago, the bubble burst and threw the economy into the black hole that it's in now.
We are a nation built upon the ideas of personal responsibility in the "pursuit of happiness."
I get it, you're the United States of America, you want to do your own thing and let everybody do what they want. And you're perfectly capable of that under normal circumstances. But sometimes, it doesn't work like that - maybe that's the reason why the U.S. is still trying to find the "road to recovery", while the rest of the world already has recovered.
We have been the "beacon of light" which serves as an example to other industrialized nations... They should look to us, not we to them.
I'm not very religious, but I do know that one of the seven deadly sins is "Pride". The world changes constantly and for once, the U.S. is not the center of the world and is not who everybody looks to. Is that so bad? I doubt it, let the others have their say for a while, it'll change again, it's just a question of 'when'.
I know you probably won't care, but... The U.S. mission in Iraq was allegedly to "spread democracy", right? So, if you're so keen on democracy, why aren't you living it?
And one last thing: You're not happy with your President, but you should at least be a little grateful that thanks to him, the rest of the world doesn't consider you total douchebags anymore. If nothing else, you can give him credit for that.