jim_flanegin wrote:
> --- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>>
>> In a message dated 3/10/07 12:12:29 A.M. Central Standard Time,
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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>>
>> And how many american lives lost when you spent a
>> trillion dollars on an unjustifiable war rather than on health
>>
> care
>
>> for civilian and military , education and job training, pensions
>>
> and
>
>> the many mentally ill homeless, the environment?
>>
>>
>> Answer to question 1 is Zero. Answer to question 2 is also Zero.
>>
> And this is
>
>> what really pisses off the left, not that Soldiers are risking
>>
> life and limb
>
>> for them but the money being used could be buying all kinds of
>>
> Socialist
>
>> programs.
>> Education, the environment, and health are socialist programs?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Universal healthcare for civilians, is socialism. Education and
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> job training
>
>> beyond what the states already normally provide is socialism.
>>
> Federal take
>
>> over of pensions is socialism. Government care of the mentally is
>>
> socialism,
>
>> although it is a good and compassionate idea to help provide for
>>
> those who
>
>> can't provide for themselves. Nobody wants to see those that
>>
> can't take care of
>
>> themselves turned out on their own.
>>
>
> I think some reasonable attention could be put on our social
> programs without having to resort to charges of socialism. Anymore
> than calling the expanding military/industrial complex fascism.
>
> As a self-employed consultant I pay nearly $200/mo. for minimal
> health care coverage, just for me. A decent plan is ~$400/mo. Who
> can afford that? Also, the schools in California are now 49th or
> something in the nation, after being ranked near the top for years,
> but the funding has been gutted to the point where teachers must buy
> their own supplies, and the education budget is supplemented by the
> state lottery. A disgrace.
>
>
And like you I am self-employed, just turned 60 and of course the
insurance company employees are going to have a rafting trip on me since
they raised my insurance enough to cover it. I too am going to get it
lowered to a minimal rate as I am paying $400 mo and can't afford THAT
any longer. Welcome to Skamerca.
