I made a statement on the need to decentralize power and programs in this country.
Even a chimpanzee might have caught himself before he furiously pounded out counterexamples like police, roads, fire departments, schools, and utilities.
Should there be a National Police Force? A Federal Fire Department managing every station from Florida to Oregon? Should all our schools be run by a Supreme School Board in Washington? Appointed by our Federal leaders, of course, not elected like our local ones.
Do you see any difference at all between food stamps to help those who really need it and a National Affordable Food Program to provide "free" food to everybody in the entire country?
When somebody's knocking at my door, I'm going to call the local city police, not the goddam Marines.
We have government healthcare for the poor. We have government healthcare for the elderly. Hundreds of billions a year. Government already covers almost half the medical spending in this country.
Our system worked pretty well as it stood. According to polls, most people were quite happy with the health care they personally were getting. Even a majority of the uninsured.
A reasonable person might have looked at the remaining cracks people could still fall into, and ask how they could be filled. But there's no power to be had in solving the actual problem, is there?
A lunatic would decide we need to burn the whole thing to the ground and raise Pharaoh Barack's Legacy Pyramid in its place.
Dude, Obamacare slid into the ditch and caught fire the day it started out. It was amusing because nobody was depending on it yet. It won't be so funny ten years from now.
I was right before. This nation is going to die of stupidity.
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And then see? Boom.
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