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@whazzat8015 I don't understand this comment. The veterans administration is a federal department. The VA IS the government. Did I miss something???
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Talk to some vets. Nothing is perfect, but all the vets I've ever talked to rave about their VA healthcare. They know it can be improved in some ways, mainly in wait times for appointments, but by the same token, in most places it's pretty great care. The older vets I've talked to are happy that they have this as an option over standard Medicare.
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@michaeld4861 lol ah those big corpos and fat cats lol. They're real humanitarians.
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@WestTexasSmallTown well perhaps not free but yes we need a giant butt ton of more public housing and anyone will build them who gets paid. States can pay for them or the federal government can fund them it's very simple.
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Thank you so much for sharing this. Yes I'm familiar with most of this. It doesn't need to be this way, that's the bottom line. A country that has a federal budget of trillions and as many resources as ours can't set aside a relative pittance to give people just the minimum so they don't have have to live on the street or go hungry??? That's really quite evil. This is very sad and anybody of conscience would be very disgusted with the state of things today. If only ruthless demons didn't call all the shots in this country hmmm. There's more than enough to go around for everybody that much is clear. On a local and state-level we can easily tax the top incomes and the top 10% of businesses and redistribute those funds to help those who have the least. Concurrently federal programs can easily provide a minimum amount of welfare so everyone can stay housed and fed and get medical care. What we spend public funds on in this country is mostly morally wrong in my judgment, which is domestically, primarily endless incarceration and an out-of-control police state, and then pretty much a trickle for everything else. The people in charge in both political parties are just savages in my opinion. I'm so far to the Left now that I realize that if I put public welfare first the only political label that would come close to identifying me would be Communist and I wear that label proudly. Communist, aka I stand for the "common good", not for an insanely small slice of people to run off with hundreds of millions. The general welfare. Why can't the general welfare be the first priority of a governing body and not the last??? A lot of us are being harmed by not having a viable socialist or Communist party in this country. If we put the common welfare first everyone would have more than enough to be comfortable and most of our social problems would shrink into nothingness or at least much more manageable chunks.
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@Blacklighting1 full social benefits can easily be funded via the federal budget or States raising taxes at the top
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@UnfollowYourDreams I don't understand how cannabis was ever demonized, I mean I understand why here in the States but not other countries.
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@WestTexasSmallTown the federal government has almost unlimited spending capacity you just don't get it but I'll be happy to educate you if you like
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@somenerdyblonde and yet they're losing tens of thousands if not millions of these empties apartments how does this even make a good decision from a business perspective??.
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@WestTexasSmallTown I'm pretty sure I know how all that works I don't understand your objection which part of what I said you disagree with?
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@scotthullinger4684 it's really not shoplifting. What are people supposed to do if they can't afford insurance or can't qualify for what little public healthcare is available? You have to look at the whole system. And who cares about store shoplifting? THEY CAN CERTAINLY AFFORD IT AND THEN SOME. Who the hell cares if a billionaire store chain loses $20 to the homeless guy?? YOU JUST DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO BE PROVIDED FOR. WHY? I feel my landlord steals from me mightily every month but because it's legal there's not much I can do about it. THE THEFT FROM THE ELITES TO THE POORS IS A BILLION TIMES BIGGER THAN THE TINY BIT OF SO-CALLED "THEFT" FROM THE POORS TO THE ELITE. Care more the poor who barely have enough to get by and less about the elites at the top. You got it backwards. Even a small store makes quite a bit of profit they can tolerate a little shoplifting. Shoplifting is merely the cost of doing business. If stores don't like it let them close their doors! That's how life works!!!!!!! Every business has costs. Shoplifting is a very minor and very negligible cost. Stores waste up to half their inventory and they have the gall to cry about lifting?? Oh boo hoo poor stores let me cry a river. Ok whatever, Jeff Bezos thinks you for your service. I hope one day you reconsider your attitude. FUCK STORES AND FUCK THEIR GREED
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So it's most definitely a scam, ma'am. Your state politicians are taking huge bribes from BCBS and making sure that they're the only choice for you guys and you're getting ripped off at the same time. Cool system huh? Well when big corpos are allowed to buy all the politicians I mean what do you expect??? Shit all around is what we get.
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@kevlar7669 Fox News thanks you for your service
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@kevlar7669 I wish people like you could learn how to think for yourself for once in your whole life For the record I'm not against having private insurance as a choice. If people want to pay twice as much for the same service who am I to tell them not to? But we need comprehensive national healthcare NOW. We needed it 100 years ago, but most definitely we need it for the last 30-40 years It's one of the first civilized responsibility any government has towards its people. Robust healthcare, full comprehensive coverage, everybody makes a good salary but no nobody is buying a third yacht while working for public healthcare. Now I'm betting that there's going to be enough nurses and doctors and medical support professionals that don't feel they need to have three yachts to be happy with their life. Let's not let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Nothing is ever perfect. But just like VA healthcare, if done right, public healthcare can be excellent.
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@kevlar7669 funny thing about government not taking care of people, if you ever were really really hard up your tune would change in a jiffy. So if a governmental system doesn't exist to help us, who do they exist for??? Oh I know! The red-blue uniparty grift machine exists maximize the massive endless superprofits of the business executive class of big business. Ah!!! Got it! In other words they are in bed with, take massive bribes from and will do anything to protect and represent the interests of the large corporation over everyone and anyone else. Nobody and nothing else matters and both parties do this although the GOP seem to be especially aggressive about it. Do you think with those economic objectives in mind they give a fukk about you??? Or anyone like you? Or anyone like me? Or anyone not in that elite class??? No of course they don't. And if you know this, which I'm not sure you do, why is this okay with you?? Why should I tolerate or respect or feel favorable to an association of people, the political class in this country, who dont care if I live or die?? That wouldn't be very smart. All red-blue purple politicians in country don't work for me OR you, they work for big business and that is all. This is bad for the rest of us. I guess I have the weird idea that if I'm being mandated to pay taxes and subject to these ridiculous laws I deserve something from my government, or am I really just a slave?? Tldr: we definitely need a national healthcare service, its inhumane not to have one. For those who want to stay private I'm not suggesting that they'd be forced to switch.
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@logans3365 I'm just trying to show that publicly run healthcare can work as well as if not better than private healthcare. It comes down to, is it adequately funded?? and are there good people in it's ranks?? Well I have some minor complaints but I believe regarding the VA the answer is yes and yes. I see no reason why we shouldn't expect (and demand) this to be true of an NHS as well.
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@whazzat8015 oh sorry I didn't get what you were driving at. Yes for sure. What I don't understand is the logical fallacy that otherwise not stupid people fall into that says govt shouldn't exist for the purposes of the public good. What the feck is government FOR then?? WHY AM I PAYING TAXES THEN?? Lets just have total anarchy if there's no benefit for the average Joe from any govt body.
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@WestTexasSmallTown some of them yes. What's your point??
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@FUNKY_BUTTLOVIN I was with you until you brought up the DSA. They are fake clowns you understand this right?? If you want to go Left and put the common welfare first just say you're a militant communist. You know, like I do. Edit: or socialist works too. But feel free to look it up yourself the DSA is a clown organization I'm sorry to tell you.
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@WestTexasSmallTown unfortunately yes in this country that's how it works but we're saying that shouldn't be how it works. To think that landlords have the right to set their own prices is nuts to me. They should be dealt with with the iron fist. But keep sucking their jizz if that's what you happy. And for the record I'm not really against the small landlord I'm against corporate landlords mostly. I'm so sick of living in a country that treats landlords as gods I'm so goddamn sick you really can't understand just how sick I am. It's time for big-time change. We need hard-and-fast rent limitation and control now. of course landlord shouldn't be able to set their own price that's crazy. That's how you end up with what we have now.
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@WestTexasSmallTown they do have an unlimited budget that's their dirty little open secret. All currency-issuing federal governments do. I'm sure that they can't print out a trillion dollars every single day but I'm saying within reason, within a very high bar, for all intents and purposes, they essentially have an unlimited budget. They just don't have an unlimited budget for you and me, but they have an unlimited budget for their criminal buddies on Wall Street, for the business of war and death and world domination, and for endless massive gravy train corporate welfare handouts to the richest multibillion-dollar corporations aka "subsidies", a cute word that just means welfare for the rich, or federal money for the rich. So there's no limit on how much they want to spend on that; now for social needs or ethical purposes that's true, they have a very relatively low budget for that but that's not because they have to that's because they WANT to. They could pump virtually as much money into the economy as they wanted and that money would be transferred into work hours and materials. Don't buy the lie that social spending causes inflation that's just bogus. It's a lie, like so much else that comes out of the government's mouth. Money is money. If unlimited spending for Wall Street, war business, and mega-rich handouts doesn't cause cost inflation, which it doesn't, or if it did they don't care about (but it doesn't), then how could a tiny bit of social spending do so? Well of course it can't. As usual those assholes in DC are lying to you they're all lying to you. Everyone has an agenda and if its mainstream news weather at CNN or Fox or anything else there's a good chance that they're either lying or not giving you the whole truth. Within the states (who do not make their own money) and have to fund themselves through internal taxes, with a relatively small percentage of redistribution from the top to the bottom, all essential lacks could be filled.
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@ladylestranj Congress. Do you not know this? it's ok if you don't I'm just curious if it was a serious question.
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@rochellemcdonald9646 very accurate
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@scotthullinger4684 I wish I could rehab your brain. Your attitude presumes people don't have the right to be provided with what they need. That's wrong. One way or another EVERYBODY has the right to get what they need to be mentally and physically healthy. But what else would you expect from an armed card-carrying Marxist??? You have a nice day now.
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@WestTexasSmallTown I would
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@ladylestranj ah, I see your mistake. And where do you think the working people get the money dear?? From your employer? From your federal benefits? from your bank? And where do you think they get it from? Our central government is known as a currency issuer, meaning it creates its own money. They create digital forms of currency and physical currency through the Federal Mint. These monies are then released to the central banks and then circulate throughout the whole country. So the money all starts with Congress. I don't even know why they assess federal taxes because they aren't necessary to fund federal spending. Honestly to me I see no purpose for them. Congress's role is to choose what to spend. That's its role: to create various departments and to choose what to spend. The Federal Mint creates the money, Congress makes various large appropriations, and all these monies are thus released into the economy starting with the Big Banks. If I'm wrong I'll gladly stand corrected but I'm not. Where else did you think the money came from? A money fairy???
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@ladylestranj whether Reagan or the states chose not to treat those who needed care, both were wrong. I would say in most cases a person should have the right to refuse but it is a difficult problem because some people are dangerous to themselves or others so what does one do in that situation? I don't like locking somebody up against their will but sometimes there's no alternative. I would hope every measure would be taken to respect the rights and only keep them as long as necessary.
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@Dragoon91786 thank you for this sad story. Yes we live in a cruel society; the people in charge have embraced cruelty and neglect. It doesn't matter what political party both have done it gladly. Red or Blue, both are clowns. Voting for either is throwing a vote away at this point. They're BOTH criminal they're BOTH on the take, they BOTH don't care if any of us live or die- these are the hard facts and I wish more people would face them. There is only ONE option- provide the funds necessary to meet everyone's minimum material needs by any means necessary. Either we resolve to do this or we don't. Anything else is BS. I'm not ready yet but I'm getting organized so that in a few years I'll be ready to start stepping out on the political stage locally; small races at first, nothing big. I'll be way out here on the Left, I'll be all on my own I won't have any special connections so it's going to be a challenge. But I have to do it because nobody else is doing what needs to be done, nobody else is ensuring people get their basic material needs met. There isn't a middle ground. It's kind of like parents; either you're loving and self-sacrificing or you're not. Sure parents are going to make mistakes, but either you love your children and put them ahead of yourself, or you don't. Either they matter to you and you're willing to do what's necessary for them, or you're not. There's not much in between. You can't be a little bit pregnant. I'll do whatever's necessary within my jurisdiction within my power to provide for everyone's "BMNs", basic material needs. Things like this should be considered to be minimum tasks of a governmental body. MINIMUM. Not optional, not considered above and beyond, but MINIMUM. What else is govt for????? To provide positive public spaces, to provide a minimum of safety, and to provide for material needs. That's IT. (Well a few other more specific things but mainly those)
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@grmpEqweer indeed
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@ladylestranj yes ma'am I'd like to do that very much. Doubt they'd listen to me tho- I'm not an elite and I cant offer biggie bribes or patronage. That makes me worthless in their eyes. The perils of living under white-gloved genteel thugs.
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