I'll try this again and why on earth isn't it worth discussing?

Honestly, rising health care costs are the albatross that I think is a big reason that the economy struggles to get back on track. As much as some like to gripe about welfare and entitlement programs, there are no bigger entitlement programs than Medicare and Medicaid. And they just keep growing and growing and growing in relation to the federal budget as a whole. I know this is a very Republican point to make, but nobody has any incentive to not just spend and spend and spend on health care, and so the prices just keep going up and up and up. People want the government to spur job growth, but most of the budget consists of three areas that would be political suicide to cut: Defense, Medicare, Medicaid. (If you want proof, cue up the video of retired folks screaming at politicians last year when they were convinced their health care would be rationed - like it is, by the way, in almost every other Western nation. Example: We are far and away the hip replacement capital of the world.) And we stay in this vicious cycle, with the middle class paying the price.

Obviously this is just part of the problem, but it's a significant part, in my humble opinion.

 

Hell most elections are fixed, bought for or eligibility-forged.

 

Why this thread was shut down before. The back-door birther strikes

 

I am a proud member of the middle class. Or is the the median or mode class? I can never get those things straight.

But I am sure that I am one of those and am being screwed by someone.

 

Ignoring the hint remark that Al Gore might have been right in 2000. Dooley the Dem, picking and choosing his interpretation.......

 

The fundamental flaw remains that special interests co-opt elected representatives . . . for the primary benefit of the special interests.

 

I Like Ice Cream

 

Sigh.

 

But WHY isn't it worth discussing? Why? Why?

 

But not ignoring the false equivalency.

Anyway, back to the middle class. I'm sure this is something that can be fixed with some tax breaks for millionaires.

 

If you can afford raisin ham, you are middle class

 

If you think the middle class started disappearing 10 or 20 years ago, you are about 10 or 20 years late to the game.

When it became cheaper to build a product then move it 10,000 miles than building it in America was the start of our decline.

Is it the Union's fault for these high wages that drive the cost? Yes.
Is it the GOPers fault for allowing next to no tax rates on goods coming into our county? Yes.

Basically, America is fucked. The question is when it will end and how badly.

In no way shape or form will we be the dominant nation we once were in 100 years.