| Rod Speed 2008-02-05, 1:26 pm |
| HeyBub <heybub@gmail.com> wrote
> Billy wrote
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> Sure we do! The 74 consecutive months of expansion, low inflation,
> extremely low unemployment, increased income, higher productivity,
> increased life expectancy, WAY lower poverty and welfare, rising
> school scores, and so on. The economy is so robust it was able to
> shrug off 9-11, Katrina, and other hits and will, no doubt, likewise
> ignore the current housing mess.
> Some try to make hay out of marginal issues such as an increased
> budget (lower as a percentage of GDP than Reagan or Clinton) or
> increased debt (no where near historical highs).
> But, in the main, we're doing swell. Just swell.
Yep. And the US can even afford the fiasco in Iraq.
> This doesn't mean things couldn't be better, they could. But we've got to be wary of "fixes." For example, it's not
> the best that 40 million people don't have health insurance (that doesn't equate to 40 million don't get health CARE),
> but the proposals I've seen would fuck up a perfectly fine system for 260 million in an ATTEMPT to accommodate 40
> million.
Have fun explaining how come every other modern
first world country can manage to do that fine.
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