The Partisan Divide on Issues

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(01-28-2020, 12:33 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Ha ha, no I said I don't know what county you live in. Are you in Hennepin or some more outlying county?

As your hero Reagan said, "there you go agin."

"crack down and address issues related to do nothing blue America."

In other words, "I don't want to give tax money to those lazy folks who don't work." Same o, same o, and yes it is racist.

You know what trickle-down economics is. It's the ideology you vote for. Reduce taxes and regulations on business and the wealthy, and wealth will trickle down from them to the rest of us. "freedom" and "free enterprise," "self-reliance" "get the government off our backs" "government is the problem" etc. It doesn't work.

Medicare for All is not socialism. I am on medicare now. I pay one fee to the government, and I get services, for free or reduced price, from a private doctor and a network of private doctors. These doctors are not government employees. Medicare works. Why not extend it to all? Private insurance companies are greedy, useless middle-men who deny coverage for no reason and jack up rates. Who needs 'em?

I wouldn't mind extending medicare in its current form to all, which includes private health insurance but under regulation. I pay Part B to the government, and a non-profit insurance company administers my account. I don't deal with any government employees directly.

Our private energy company is not being overseen well. It is going bankrupt. Municipal energy companies work well. Why not? I pay for my energy now to my city, in cooperation with the private energy company. I pay only for the renewable portion. It's working, although my energy company may be going bankrupt. The city may take over completely; our mayor is proposing it. With my solar panels, I may get generate more energy and get more money back than the cost of energy from the grid.

I am not concerned that our health and energy companies going more public threatens the capitalist system. There are plenty of American companies doing well and supplying goods and services. Silicon Valley is alive and well, for example. So are amazon and microsoft up there in Seattle. They just need to be better regulated in some cases when they pollute or abuse people. An economy of smaller companies than our behemoth corporate giants would work better for all except a few bosses.

I live in the United States. A government takeover of an American industry would be viewed as socialist and associated with socialism here. Yep, you have medicare now like most retiree's. What did you have to do to be entitled to receive it? Why is Bernie running as a Democrat when he's an Independent candidate? What a punk move but that's like Bernie and the lame liberal party that allows him to get away it today.