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Originally Posted by aceventura3
Looks like we could go on forever (and it is very tempting to rebut your latest points, but I going to spend some time being a blind, greedy, heartless... whatever you said in one of your posts).
I think I understand our fundamental differences. I generally think America is a great country and that people, rich and poor, are generally good and will do what is right if given a fair opportunity. We have problems, we will never achieve perfection but we try. It may not be fair for me to speak for you, but you seem to think government needs to force people to do what is right, and that gennerally the things that are wrong with this country are going to lead to its end.
Seems like you view the cup as half empty and I see it as half full.
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I have just one rebuttal.
No, I don't think government has to force people to do what is right. As I stated ALL sides (Management, Healthcare, Labor, and government on all levels) have to be willing to make sacrifices and do what is best for the country to save our society.
Right now I don't see that, what I see is everyone worried more about saving themselves than society. It is human nature, but somewhere down the road it will be too late. That point is coming fast. I do believe that government's job is to protect it's people, part of that protection requires protecting the society it has built. Thus, government needs to start the talks and progress as mediator to save society.
If we can save our industries, rebuild the infrastructure and lower healthcare prices then society will take care of itself and government can back away. But right now, we need a strong government that is willing to get involved and begin the processes. That means investing in the infrastructure, which again, companies are not doing by themselves. It takes money to do that and when the companies are working to save their own asses, and workers are just trying to stay afloat, government has to be the impetus to get things started.
Since local and states don't have the money, it is the Federal government that has to start the ball rolling. Until we address the infrastructure and put the money into rebuilding the country, we will continue or decline into greed, into poverty, into eventual total decay.