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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
When are you guys gonna get social democrats?
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When they change the name to Christian Socialists (yeah, separation of church & state, but put the name Christian in front and people would look into it.)... The type of Christians who don't care what you do in your bedroom, and work more on helping the poor and disadvantaged.
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Originally Posted by OP
(The Republicans) are willing to let their country get raped for the sake of ideological posturing. Democrats are impotent and lacking any direction. They are all talk at best; equality culpable at worst. This leaves the US in a precarious position.
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This is pretty close to the situation I think. I would add that the GOP does things to benefit themselves and the corporations, with the hope that the rest of us will work hard or find a job.
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I'm not sure what Healthcare has to do with politics. Healthcare is the business of healing and politics is the art of bullshit. The two should remain separate. I'm not going to start a Healthcare debate here, I'll just say there's a better way to do things and no one in the world has a great system. They could all be better.
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Economic theory is divided into Capitalism, Communism, Socialism, and Individualism. Each of those has different healthcare policies that go with it. The politicians are the ones who decide which system we will use in this country.
I wonder what the CBO would say if Obama had come up with the 'perfect' healthcare system and how much it would have cost. My family and I have close to perfect health, and it doesn't cost very much currently. The big question is how to you pay for all the hospitals and doctors if there aren't enough sick people (not that the US has this problem...)?