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Your humble reporter is starting to see this question pop up more and more on locations across the Internet .............., and THIS is the best answer!
Guest Post by James Hollomon:
Your humble reporter is starting to see this question pop up more and more on locations across the Internet .............., and THIS is the best answer!
Guest Post by James Hollomon:
The proposals he has made would not cost us anything we are not already spending. We are already doing (or in the case of infrastructure repairs, will be forced to do) all the things he proposes. Fixing infrastructure after it fails catastrophically doesn't save money, it wastes it. When the deal is "Pay me now or pay me later." deferring payment is almost always a bad idea.
Single payer healthcare would cost us significantly LESS than our current, dysfunctional for-profit insurance provided by 1300 or so corporations, plus treatment of the uninsured in the nation's emergency rooms. Once again, U.S. has most expensive healthcare system in the entire world, and the least effective health care system in the developed world.
College education in state colleges and universities is nowhere near free right now. Our kids are graduating with crushing debt. The interest rates are an outrage, and many will carry this debt through much of their working lives, meaning they can't spend their income to help drive our consumer based economy. Many brilliant kids can't go to college because their poor families don't qualify for the loans, so they end up an untapped resource that could contribute far more to our nation's GDP than they currently do. Again, changing how we pay for this so that it is more equitable will not cost us more, it will cost us less.
Single payer healthcare would cost us significantly LESS than our current, dysfunctional for-profit insurance provided by 1300 or so corporations, plus treatment of the uninsured in the nation's emergency rooms. Once again, U.S. has most expensive healthcare system in the entire world, and the least effective health care system in the developed world.
College education in state colleges and universities is nowhere near free right now. Our kids are graduating with crushing debt. The interest rates are an outrage, and many will carry this debt through much of their working lives, meaning they can't spend their income to help drive our consumer based economy. Many brilliant kids can't go to college because their poor families don't qualify for the loans, so they end up an untapped resource that could contribute far more to our nation's GDP than they currently do. Again, changing how we pay for this so that it is more equitable will not cost us more, it will cost us less.
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Meanwhile, Jeb has come up with a pretty good idea ............, even if he is a Bush!
In the wake of the Paris terror attacks, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) said Sunday that American aid toward refugees should be geared toward Christians who are fleeing persecution in Syria, as opposed to those who are Muslim.
"I think we need to do thorough screening and take in a limited number," Bush said on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday. "There are a lot of Christians in Syria that have no place now. They'll be either executed or imprisoned, either by Assad or by ISIS. We should focus our efforts as it relates to the refugees for the Christians that are being slaughtered."
The White House's plan to take in 10,000 Syrian refugees has come under attack from Republican presidential candidates in the wake of Friday's terror attack in Paris, which claimed at least 129 lives and wounded at least 350. Officials say one of the attackers held a Syrian passport and appears to have come through Greece among the throngs of refugees, increasing fears that ISIS is using the crisis as a way to infiltrate Europe.
Bush said that the U.S. should use a careful screening process to ensure refugees are in fact Christian, saying "we need to be obviously very, very cautious."
Bush isn't the only GOP candidate to say U.S. compassion as it relates to the refugee crisis should focus on Christians. "President Obama and Hillary Clinton’s idea that we should bring tens of thousands of Syrian Muslim refugees to America -- it is nothing less than lunacy," Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said in an interview with Fox News on Saturday.
"Now on the other hand," Cruz added, "Christians who are being targeted, for genocide, for persecution, Christians who are being beheaded or crucified, we should be providing safe haven to them."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAsSigjZ0mA
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