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Originally Posted by saratogaman
Let's get radically conservative and conservatively radical and eliminate the opinions, claims and assertions of media pundits, columnists and talk-show hosts - and everybody who doesn't live in The Villages -- and not refer to them to support a point of view. State your opinion and convince us why it is better than anything else.
May I suggest that the major national issues facing us are: 1) Unemployment (do we just ride it out or do additional stimulus or tax cuts -- be specific; 2) Health care (do we make no changes, do Medicare for everyone, require everyone to purchase health insurance (a la' Massachusetts), force insurance companies to stop eliminating coverage for people with 'pre-existing conditions' ; and 3) Afghanistan -- walk away and deal with Al Queda with Predator drones or stay and put their government on notice for 1 or 2 years to produce or leave it open-ended and stay until whenever under what conditions?
Put forth your opinions and why you -- not some pundit -- think that is the way to do it.
This could be fun and enlightening for all of us! Thanks for participating.
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1) Unemployment. Provide tax cuts to stimulate the economy. Historicaly, tax cuts work. Massive government spending has not.
2) We need to eliminate fraud first. You cannot stop insurance companies from eliminating pre-exisHistoricallyting conditions. Very few would purchase insurance until they needed it. (That's human nature) That would defeat the whole principle nature of insurance: "To share the risk." The premiums would be greatly higher. You would be prepaying medical costs, not sharing the risk. There are people who pay into the insurance pool all their lives and never collect. This helps to offset those who collect more.
3) Afghanistan? Give it another year of action run by the military not politicians. Develope a plan B.
These are my answers based on my experience and education and I live in the villages. These are my answers to the questions asked only.
Yoda