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Feb 24, 2019 01:37:12   #
Danoboy
 
Glad I'm here to share my views and read others.

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Feb 24, 2019 02:05:26   #
Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon
 
Danoboy wrote:
Glad I'm here to share my views and read others.


Welcome Dano, how did you find OPP?

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Feb 24, 2019 02:22:43   #
Common_Sense_Matters
 
Danoboy wrote:
Glad I'm here to share my views and read others.


Welcome and don't forget to develop a thick skin.

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Feb 24, 2019 02:29:58   #
JW
 
Danoboy wrote:
Glad I'm here to share my views and read others.


Welcome. Looking forward to hearing your views.

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Feb 24, 2019 02:46:03   #
bobebgtime Loc: Virginia
 
Danoboy wrote:
Glad I'm here to share my views and read others.


Fire away.

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Feb 24, 2019 05:11:02   #
MarvinSussman
 
Danoboy wrote:
Glad I'm here to share my views and read others.


Here's one view:

FREE LUNCH!

Currently, over 75% of applications for military service are rejected for reasons of health and/or education. The cure? Free Lunch! Finance patients and students like we finance soldiers: within the defense budget (where costs vanish!), with enough accountants, auditors, and sheriffs to cut out waste, fraud, and abuse. (Yes! American families should still be able to buy their own health care and education in a totally free market, independently of any government program!)

For our defense, we need totally free healthcare for all and expense-paid education up to PhD! Cost? Other nations have government-financed healthcare and education with costs lower than those now saddled upon our young and old. With inflation controlled by the Fed and by federal income tax, we can indeed afford all our needs! Any federal tax increase will be trumped by the increased deficit spending (which is our annual after-tax savings, equal to our imports plus the annual net increase in our domestic bank savings!) Deficit spending = foreign goods + cash!

Yes! After-tax savings do indeed bring prosperity! World War II spending gave us our suburbs and 30 years of prosperity. Spending on the Marshall Plan, Korean War, Cold War, NASA, nuclear energy, Vietnam, etc., also contributed to post-war prosperity. Ask your grandmother!

Federal debt? As explained* by Ben S. Bernanke, Princeton economist and former Fed Chair, the Fed, with Congress’ OK, can buy the federal debt directly from the Treasury! No problem!

With Social Security numbers identifying individuals, computers can manage everything with minimum personnel. Congress can negotiate prices and fees for all goods and services, pay everyone their just worth, and never ever send a bill for service to a patient or to a student!

Yes, there will be growing pains! Education may already have the necessary resources but healthcare will suffer scarcities, especially dentists and rural hospitals/personnel. Until the system matures, shortages will require a program of triage to set priorities and minimize the waiting. So, “Free Lunch” healthcare will have to be implemented gradually while waiting for the graduates of “Free Lunch” education to fill the gaps in medical service! Better late than never!

So, let’s start now by extending Medicare to children up to age 19 and to all students. With their good health, we need only beef up the current system. Then, let’s annually increase the entry age by two years (age 19 to age 21) and decrease the entry age by two years (age 67 to age 65). When possible, annually increase/decrease by three or more years, until EVERYONE has current Medicare. Then, cancel all private health insurance and declare all healthcare and all education, with neighborhood nurseries, day-care, and Pre-K, to be totally free, cradle to grave!

Within ten years or so, if we can educate and build like China, there may be enough medical resources for slack to appear. By then, there should also be no more sk**led labor shortages. And much of our huge prison population could and should be trained to care for sick and old.

Totally free healthcare for all and totally free education at all levels, with just enough taxation to prevent harmful inflation, will increase deficit spending (after-tax savings!) and prosperity! Dump all the deficit hawks! Elect Social Democrats! Make America REALLY Great and Totally Free!

*https://www.brookings.edu/blog/ben-bernanke/2016/04/11/what-tools-does-the-fed-have-left-part-3-helicopter- money/
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Feb 24, 2019 05:23:47   #
Peewee Loc: San Antonio, TX
 
Welcome and book-em Dano!

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Feb 24, 2019 07:15:34   #
bggamers Loc: georgia
 
Danoboy wrote:
Glad I'm here to share my views and read others.


welcome to opp we welcome new views

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Feb 24, 2019 07:16:57   #
bggamers Loc: georgia
 
bobebgtime wrote:
Fire away.


I haven't seen your post and see your also new hello and welcome

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Feb 24, 2019 15:55:48   #
bahmer
 
Danoboy wrote:
Glad I'm here to share my views and read others.


There are others of us from Illinois on here as well you are in fine company.

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Feb 25, 2019 11:48:37   #
tactful Loc: just North of the District of LMAO
 
bahmer wrote:
There are others of us from Illinois on here as well you are in fine company.


This is true Dano! Welcome.
As mentioned it would be wise to get or have a thick skin.
New input is always welcome.
Hope you don't get discouraged. It is easy to do.
Born,Grew up,made a life Up there citing climate here more appealing.

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Feb 25, 2019 12:04:13   #
Carlos
 
Sounds like a good idea, I'm Going to Venuzuala to practice first, that way I'll be ready for what's to come here. Then We won't feel bad when half our pay check is taken for the free education and health care. By Golly, that's for me. See you In Venuzuala, adios!

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Feb 25, 2019 17:19:37   #
Highlander66 Loc: Illinois
 
Danoboy wrote:
Glad I'm here to share my views and read others.


Welcome, amigo from another resident of the delightful little slice of little California called Illinois. I’ll be interested in hearing your take on how our state is faring with our current leadership

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Feb 25, 2019 17:24:18   #
bahmer
 
Highlander66 wrote:
Welcome, amigo from another resident of the delightful little slice of little California called Illinois. I’ll be interested in hearing your take on how our state is faring with our current leadership


You call that leadership? This is a democrat state and they have never seen a tax that they didn't like. Just wait on the tax hikes that Michael Madigan will bring out.

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Feb 25, 2019 23:25:50   #
Carlos
 
Better where you are than California. There's really not much to say about that sanctuary state, like it isn't in the is country. I don't think they want to be anyway but what a pity the liberal leaders
Have done to that once wonderful state. But,thats socialism and yet some folks like it. You'd think they would look at places like Venuzuala, China, Cuba, France and many other socialist cointries, you would think that alone would make the difference. Of course the young today have been taught to h**e this country but the young are some of the first to holler when things actually go the socialist way. Usually though,the chickens come home to roost sooner or later.

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