The US economy is much larger than those of Canada or Australia, right? Very much larger .. so how valid is your comparison, actually?
Also, a more GDP resources are spent by the US on defense than the equivalents in Canada or Australia, right? So, even if we were to agree that this is necessary (keeping the world a safer place etc.), you would still have to agree that this diversion of resources is to defense (and thus perhaps away from healthcare) is a political, even an ideological decision. My point: that reducing monies for welfare is not necessarily an inevitable decision - although reducing inefficiencies and gross waste surely is.
The other thing I've just noticed: this mention of illegal immigrants getting freebies: how central is that point to the issue at hand? We're really talking about health care for the majority US populace, right? The illegal immigrant question must be a serious one, certainly, but it can't surely be the main game in a population of several hundred million. Methinks you might have headed me off at the pass with a diversion, here.
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hey, wait a minute -
The whole thread (42 posts)
- Poverty in England
- Well, I read it and now I have a headache
- Welfare cultures
- Your ideologically driven thread
- If you fix a problem, what happens to a bureaucracy whose life depends on the existence of that problem?
- Circular Logic
- Welfare cultures
- Dubyuh will show a thing or two to those commie ingrates (n/t)
- Well, I read it and now I have a headache