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Post by midnightrider on Jul 30, 2012 8:43:26 GMT -5
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Post by hefferman1 on Jul 30, 2012 9:27:38 GMT -5
He is wrong on one thing and it makes his entire premise wrong.
He said we can't balance the budget, and he includes welfare as an entitalment we can't cut. Cut out the welfare, or reduce it, and the budget is fixable.
We have spend enough money to buy the entire fortune 500 and give everyone on welfare a 30,000 a year job, and have nothing to show for this waste of mone, known as welfare.
We also have soaring medicare cost, because anything the government gets involved in the cost goes up. We need to move back to a supply and demand system on health care. That alone will lower the price and make it affordable. Otherwise the doctors will go out of business.
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Post by midnightrider on Jul 30, 2012 9:51:12 GMT -5
Agreed!
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Post by aronatbc on Jul 30, 2012 10:17:12 GMT -5
All of this is fixable. Take an axe to the FedGov. Cut it all back to just the Article 1 Section 8 duties listed. Cut EVERYTHING else and hand those functions back to the States or to private consortium groups.
Private groups? Yes. For regulatory agencies like the FDA, FCC, and the FAA. Look at the IEEE for coming up with agreed upon and voluntary standards for interoperability on consumer electronics as a template. They won't have the force of law, which is a good thing, and still allows for conflict resolution and the settings of standards.
We could literally run our entire FedGov on about $500 billion. And that includes a hugely generous military budget...
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Post by busboy on Jul 30, 2012 10:50:25 GMT -5
Pretty simple solutions really.
The people here won't riot like Greece, because most don't depend on SS for their retirement, it is a supplement to their retirement. In Greece, as with the rest of Europe, the government IS their retirement.
Most people don't need medicare, in fact, many are forced onto it, against their will. As mentioned above, private sector solutions would be more beneficial.
However, considering that the federal reps will not touch these issues, the states are where these issues will have to be fixed, and forced upon the federal government.
Just like 40+ states have introduced bills banning Obowma Care (12-15 passing it into law), the states will need to ban the other items as well. We are seeing now, that 12+ states have said they will not increase their Medicaid program, as demanded by the Obowma Care law.
Then the states simply stop sending money to the federal government for items which are outside of Article 1, Section 8 items.
The many benefits of such a federal reduction could fill volumes.
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Post by Cujo on Jul 30, 2012 11:47:49 GMT -5
He is wrong on one thing and it makes his entire premise wrong. He said we can't balance the budget, and he includes welfare as an entitalment we can't cut. Cut out the welfare, or reduce it, and the budget is fixable. We have spend enough money to buy the entire fortune 500 and give everyone on welfare a 30,000 a year job, and have nothing to show for this waste of mone, known as welfare. We also have soaring medicare cost, because anything the government gets involved in the cost goes up. We need to move back to a supply and demand system on health care. That alone will lower the price and make it affordable. Otherwise the doctors will go out of business. Imagine the years to payoff double digit trillions, while maintaining some form of Gov. Oh we wont have to maintain a gov cause the gov will be the Corps!
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