NYT Poll Continues Theme: Control the Deficit

Repetition. Didn't like it the last time.

Yawn. Copy and Paste. 1. You can't go back in time to the 50's. 2. Government "motels" for the homeless would be bastions of drug use and crime. Would drastically lower property values of anything around them. Would have months to years long waiting lists. Wouldn't really fix anything. Can you name anything the government does well? 3. Not all citizens want access to affordable or even free health care. I have never had nor wanted health insurance. I am healthy and fairly well educated. I wouldn't go to a government run clinic or hospital. Period. Can you name anything the government does well, besides waste a lot of taxpayer money? 4. Historically the only way to lower birth rates is to increase the standard of living. Historically the fastest way to increase the standard of living is to have low taxes, have minimal government regulation on business, and encourage innovation. The point is that your ideas are not based in reality or take into account human nature. Learn about how people actually behave both as individuals and as groups then come up with some workable, easily implemented and inexpensive ideas.

Mike, what if you have a catastrophic illness, injury or accident and can no longer work?

The government does a lot of things well. Medicare has a 2% operation cost unlike for profit insurances that run in the 20% range. The post office can take a letter from San Francisco and get it to NYC in 3 days and all for less than 50 cents. FEMA (Up until Bush fucked it up) was one of the most efficient government agencies ever. The US Military is the best in the world bar none and they used to do their own construction and cooking (until Bush fucked it up with for profit contractors that increased costs and decreased efficiency and competency). It seems that the frightening phrase "I'm from the government and I'm here to help" should be modified to "I'm from a Republican led government and I'm here to help" because they are the ones who keep harping on how terrible the government is and then when in power they prove it by giving us a terribly managed government. As far as you not having health insurance, well Mike, that's just plain stupid. You need health insurance when you are healthy because when you are sick you can't get it because the insurance companies won't give it to you. Hope you don't ever get what they call a "preexisting condition" because then you won't ever be able to get insurance. But hey, it's not like anyone ever get's sick or anything. Good Luck with your plan. You will need it.