JoeB131
Diamond Member
If you say enough I'm pretty sure you'll be convinced...
You're so one sided I find it disturbing...
When Obama & Nancy passed Obamacare and she said..."we have to pass the health care bill so that you can find out what is in it" did you ever forgive them?
No, because I never considered that a big deal. I think ObamaCare was severely flawed in a lot of ways, and we will spend years tweaking it.
the dishonesty about ObamaCare is that Republicans used to support it when it was called "RomneyCare".
I realize, being Americans, we are never going to dive right into a single payer system, like the rest of the world has had for years. Just like we don't use the Metric System when the rest of the world uses that, and Metrics make a lot more sense.
Even the insurance industry realizes that the current system is unsustainable. That's why the usual suspects who killed Hillary Care said nothing about ObamaCare.
Republicans opposed their own plan because they didn't want Obama to get credit for it. Nothing more, nothing less. If by some horrid chance, Romney gets elected, most of ObamaCare will be retained. Mark my words. He'll get rid of the "individual Mandate" and call it something else.
So, no, this isn't a big issue to me.
Now, on to the bigger problem. How are we going to get Trillion dollar deficits under control by cutting revenues by 20%? It just won't work.
Supply side might have made sense when Reagan cut the top rate from 70% to 39%, but it makes less sense to cut from 39 to 35 and less to cut from 35 to 28. You just don't get a return on that.
(I don't want to really have a Supply Side debate here, because I think Supply Side is hoey, and Conservatives don't even really make that argument anymore.)
The only way that a 20% cut works is if you 1) Cut the shit out of medicare, medicaid and Social Security, which is going to screw the middle class. or 2) Cut big popular deductions like Tuition Tax Credit and Home MOrtgage Deductions, which will, again, really screw the middle class.
Now, being a pragmatist, I know we are going to have to cut some things. But we are also going to have to raise taxes on the wealthy as well.
Not that we are going to get that grown up conversation in the next two debates at all.