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ClassIsInSession -> RE: ObamaCare and Mandatory Automobile Insurance (7/13/2012 10:28:43 AM)
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tj444, you said : As someone that comes from a country that has had a national healthcare system in place for a fairly long time, I disagree with you on that point.. I am not saying that my Canada's healthcare system is perfect, but it works relatively well.. CCanada has not progressed to mandating the use of home security or eating monsanto food or any of the other things you fear.. on the contrary, it is a much freer country than yours.. I can buy my allergy meds and various other meds over the counter!!! here i need to show my id and i am limited in how much i can buy, and big brother gets that info and is watching.. People there dont get thrown in jail for minor offenses and medicinal/recreational pot smokers are left alone... gays can marry, etc, women are in charge of their own healthcare decisions (like birth control and abortion).. etc, etc.. So I disagree that its a slippery slope..
And I would agree, in many ways I like the Canadian model of doing things. I will point out though that you don't have a Dept. of Homeland Security, a Patriot Act, or many of the other things we've already seen here in the states as a major power grab. And, for those who want to peg me squarely as a Republican, yes, much of what I'm complaining about came out under Bush. I'm not picking parties here.
vincentML, you've obviously never grown up in Norfolk, VA like I did, and seen 3-4 generations of people growing up in projects. I've been back "home" many times over the last decade and nothing has changed. The projects for all their free section 8 housing still look littered with trash and graffiti, and no one who isn't african american dare go in there after dark unless they have a death wish. When people get benefits for free, they don't place any value on them. It's a psychological fact. If you doubt it, shower your significant other with endless expressions of adoration, and tons of gifts and see how long it is until they no longer have any respect for you. I take offense to your insults to my intelligence and I'm far more knowledgeable than you estimate.
My biggest gripe with government in general is they pay way too much attention to giving lip service and token efforts in order to stay in power rather than getting any real and significant progress going on.
There were comments about how inefficient the U.S. government is, and as a former contractor, I can tell you that there is definitive proof of that. We would buy supplies for every installation we did, going from ship to ship, and despite there being huge volumes of left over hardware from one job to the next, we were distinctly ordered to box it, store it in a warehouse and never use it. That's just blatant waste.
You can scuba dive in the Chesapeake Bay and find plenty of things that were dumped over the sides of ships to keep the budget from getting reduced year to year too.
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