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who is worthy of the benefits of free medical care
absolutely no one. There is no such thing as a free lunch. The person getting the healthcare may not pay for it, but someone else is and if anyone but the govt did it, it would be called theft of services.


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and tax breaks
Look at the group that single handedly pays for more than 75% of the govt.



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WHAT WOULD YOU DO? HOW WOULD YOU HANDLE ALL THE MISTAKES BUSH MADE TO GET US IN THIS POSITION? Bush walked out of office and never looked back. He doesn't have to held accountable for his HUGE mistakes, but the new administration does.
First I would look at the root causes, which mostly started during the Clinton era. Ignoring repeated terrorist attacks, and the CRA being the biggest. War on Terror and the housing market collapse were got their start there. Bush's only mistake economically was ignoring all of the warnings he received prior to 2005.

WOT was something that needed to be done a decade before it happeend. The US was a constant target for attacks that were steadily escalating in their frequency, size and complexity. It wouldnt have been much longer before we saw some type of chemical or biological attack on this country. Even nuke, such as a dirty bomb, was a real possibility.

You start off saying w shouldnt blame Obama, but why not? All of his economic policies are designed to keep us in a recession, or at the very least, do not make it possible for a recovery. His plans for Iraq are simply to cut and run away. He has never given a single detail about how his plans are supposed to be run or how much they will really cost. He is simply about fear mongering to get as much faulty legislation passed as quickly as possible.
Then you say blame Bush, yet the 2 things you mention were in place before Bush was even in office. The CRA amendments that forced banks to give out bad loans were put in place by Clinton in '93. Right before the '94 takeover of both houses. And as I have stated before, Clinton's ignoring of terrorism led to the eventual attacks of 2001. If Clinton would have acted forcefully after 1 of them many attacks while he was in poffice, 2001 would not have happened.


Lastly, this brings me back to 1 final point. Out immigration policies are a joke. ANYONE can simply walk into this country with no fear of being caught. Until our borders are secured we will ALWAYS remain an easy target for an attack. The Teeth of the Tiger by Tom Clancy outlines a very simple and effective way to do this. Very low tech and nearly impossible to defend against.