Quote Originally Posted by Total_Blender
I'll tell you why I'm voting for Obama. I'm tired of the neocon currently in power and the regressive tax policies they have been trying to foist on us. I say tax the rich. Theres no reason the working class should have to carry the lion's share of the tax burden when the major corporations and the top 1% of the population have all the wealth. Oil companies paid 30% of their gross as taxes? So what... if they are giving executives $400 million retirements it sounds like they are doing fine to me

And for universal healthcare... why not? I'd rather wait in line for an X-ray than not get one at all and die. There are a lot of working Americans who still can't afford health insurance. For every story I've heard about someone in a socialized country having to wait on a procedure I've heard 2 or 3 stories about someone here in the states not getting the same procedure because they either can't get insurance or they are getting screwed over by their HMO. People in socialized medicine countries live longer than us and are healthier. I know a lot of America's health probalems are more cultrual than the fault of its health care system, but allowing more Americans access to health care will probably be cheaper in the long run. Like preventing people from getting cancer rather than helping them fight cancer. That sort of thing. The more people who are healthy, the more people who can work. The more workers the higher the GDP. etc.

And having a president that is not a neo-con in office would also mean that the whole wiretapping/surveillance/patriot act deal would be resolved. I trust Obama and the Dems with my privacy and my civil liberties more than I do McCain and the neocons. They have both voted for the Patriot Act, but at least Obama voted against the roving wiretaps.




Go to a country like Ireland.




Half my famly lives there currently, my mom was born there. They have free medical care for everyone there. The doctors have no incentive to be highly trained because there is hardly any money in Healthcare there if you are good at what you do.


My grandad has had 3 heart attacks, he is not getting any better and the doctors he keeps getting WHEN HE IS ASSIGNED ONE are horrible and have had no idea what they are doing and have made no progress.


Medical Research and Medical training in different fields of medicine are spurred on by the fact that there is a monetary incentive, that is how the world works; people work harder when they get something out of it.


There are people in Ireland who do the same jobs as people here but get screwed for it because of the insanely high taxes.

I have a soft spot for the poor, i do volunteer work at school and at home. But i think you overestimate how many people out there still try and take advantage of the system.




In an ideal world these socialist programs work, but until we get over the animal instinct in all of us of its a Dog eat Dog world, it will never ever work.