DejaVoodoo wrote:

So in your view people too poor to afford health insurance are just
SOL, if they die in the streets--tough luck, not your problem.

That is what charities are for, not government.

Great, devil take the hindmost, a real humane point of view.

Now your talking. This is what the federal government should be
spending tax dollars on; Infrastructure and homeland security. I
don't even believe they should be managing the education system. It
now cost more to send a child to public school then some private
school.

So send your kids to private schools, what's stopping you?

This is exactly the road we are headed down. As our government grows,
we get closer and closer to socialism. With the gross mismanagement
of funds, our leaders have proven time and time again that they are
clueless and incapable of running this country. They have bankrupted
social security, the FDIC is just about bankrupt, numerous states are
bankrupt and unable to pay tax refunds, even the federal reserve is
close to bankrupt. They are now trying to pass a bill to take over
401K plans. It was the government's own FHA that lead to the crash of
the markets.

Hogwash. The govt. played a part, but the unrestrained greed and
recklessness of Wall St. played a bigger part. The govt. didn't force S&P
to rate rotten securities tripe-A, AIG didn't implode because of something
the govt. did but because they moved from insurance to gambling and they
took multiple bets on every turn of a card. I believe in private
enterprise, but *unregulated* private enterprise is a forumula for disaster,
as we have just seen yet again.

These are the people you trust to manage YOUR money. You
are a fool if you do. What congress is doing should send a chill up
your spine. For crying out loud, In the midst of all this economic
turmoil, congress voted a pay raise for them. Their behavior is
bordering on criminal

So what else is new? Are you proud of what Congress accomplished with a
Republican majority, do you figure there was less corruption and
incompetence then? Govt. tends to be clumsy and inefficient, but that
doesn't mean *everything* they do should be turned over to private business.
I for one am glad Lehman Bros. didn't run the fire dept., if they had we'd
all be fighting fires with garden hoses and buckets.