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[–]Jesus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I tell you HaWhat. We get FOX and CNN off the air for six months I bet all this bickering will cut down quite a bit.

That would be something else. People might lose their minds though.

Yes, we are a corporatist country, socialism and a good welfare state for the very, very rich at low to no interest and covert feudalism for the poor and middle class.

I've noticed something recently that I'd thought I would share. I was talking to a friend about bank and corporate bailouts, which is basically just a big welfare check. He was fine that the government bailed out banks for billions of dollars, the same banks that defraud the American people and resist public banking at all costs.

Then when I talked about giving people (the lower middle class) affordable healthcare even if it is only the basics he got mad and called me a communist. You also, have one side saying medicare for all is bad and communist, and private health care is bad. Either they want to erase medicare for good, or bring in medicare for all and erase private healthcare. How about, we have medicare for all and private health insurance, however, in a good faith classical free market, so that we can choose from dozens of private healthcare at afforadable prices. And it a healthcare institution fails do not bail them out. That way we don't have one monopoly healthcare company for one state. And the healthcare companies won't take as many chances.

[–]IamRedBeard 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I remember in 2008 when we bailed out Everybody. The housing markets, the banks, Freaking Ford Motor Company and then the execs - with the bailout money gave themselves raises. Well when Obama bailed them out it made me mad - but he put safeguards in place to try to keep this crap happening again. Now Trump in his infinite Wisdom has removed those safeguards. Man that makes a lot of things look good right now dunnit? Well, thats alright. When the housing bubble pops this next time and good people loose their houses again, I'm buying a house. Might just get property with it too.

And a bunker I can climb under and hide in while the world goes and kills itself.

As long as the lobbyists for big corporations wine and dine our senators and pay for big under the table benefits this is going to happen. A big ol' repeal of Citizens United would be a start towards ending that.

You ever notice when they make a bill they make it sound like the opposite of what it does? Citizens United is really Corporations United? The Patriot Acts were about the most Anti-patriotic rights stomping acts in ages. If they make an 'Americans for Kittens' Act it would be in favor of Americans drowning kittens.

Bah. I'm cranky and shouldn't be on here today.

We are on the same side in a great many things, you and I.

Polar opposites on others, but that's what make us people I suppose.