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You think someone as smart as Spraig could at least
trim his motherfucking posts for these one liners.
----- Original Message -----
From: sparaig
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 8:41 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Health care as a relative
phenomenon wrote: > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]...> > > wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]...> > > wrote: > > > <snip> > > > > The chances of an American administration > > > > and/or an American Congress being able to resist the > > > > pressure and often outright bribes made by these > > > > companies is, in my opinion, slight. It's almost as > > > > if it'll require junking the entire system and start- > > > > ing over to fix it. And how likely is that? > > > > > > As the Common Dreams guy notes, though, the French > > > have to pay significantly higher taxes in return for > > > their excellent health care. So it's not just the > > > pressure from those who profit from the current > > > health care system the legislators would have to > > > resist, but from the taxpayers as well--especially > > > the upper-income taxpayers who are less dependent > > > on good health insurance for their medical care. > > > > We already pay extraordinarily high taxes in this country. > > By *our* standards, not by that of other countries. > > > Our SS > > fund has been used as a resevoir for tax refunds to the wealthy and > > for public funding of wars, and corporate subsidies, etc. All of > > that comes out of the SS fund, which is paid for almost entirely by > > the lowest 99% of wage-earners. > > Oh, lord. You may not approve of what the government > spends the trust fund money on, as I don't, but unless > the government *defaults* on the Treasury bonds Social > Security bought with the trust fund money, all of it > will come back to Social Security when it's needed for > pensions for those who are paying into Social Security > now. The people who pay into it will get it back. > > The big problem is where the government is going to > get the money to redeem the bonds, but redeem them > it must; it's in the Constitution. The bonds are > backed by "the full faith and credit" of the U.S. > government, according to the Constitution. And Bush has been hinting of trying to get around this in some way... To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED
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