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Old 06-01-2011, 09:31 PM  
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the idea of resetting the world's economy makes sense to me - here is one thing that is true, we are the same people, the same population size,the same skills and education, the same infrastructure, that we were BEFORE the economic crisis. so what happened - we know what happened and why. All debt, foreign, national, corporate, personal/mortgage needs to be re-negotiated for the good of all. Fuck the banks, fuck Wall Street, all those who raped the economy under the noses of irresponsible politicians and their appointees. Those hundreds of thousands of homes with under water mortgages - fuck the banks, the house is worth half the value, the value of the mortgage should be cut in half. US owes billions to China, what's China going to do about it, attack militarily to collect it? Renegotiate all the debt all over the world.

If you divide the US debt by the number of households it's a staggering amount that each household owes - it's ludicrous because other than the wealthy no household could come close to paying its share of the national debt. It just keeps getting passed on to the next generation, it can never be paid off - if living within your means you don't spend a dime more than you take in - wow, people would revolt because the standard of living would be so low for the vast majority of people.

Healthcare costs are out of control and will continue to grow and grow as the baby boomers age, I don't think you need socialized medicine - what you need is to put wage and price controls on that industry, the government wouldn't run the system, all it would do is regulate the costs/profits - it is too important an industry to be treated like other industries. It's the tail that wags the dog of the economy. Fuck that, people are supposed to go into healthcare/medicine because they want to help people, not to get filthy rich. Drug companies lobby and blackmail all of us with this bogus argument about how much money goes into research and testing a new drug and that justifies insane amounts of money we all pay for drugs. It's bullshit, call their bluff, there will still be plenty of drugs developed, good drugs not bullshit drugs like Ritalin and half the anti-depressants on the market which exist because the drug companies and the doctors manufacture diseases and diagnosies(sp?) together they know have the potential for obscene profits.

Think Dr. Banting and Dr. Best who discovered insulin were looking to become billionaires?
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