And we don't have the money for Universal Healthcare because?

[edhopper]

Just saying.

[liberal renegade]

1. Because we spend

$500 billion plus a year on the Dept of Defense.

[SmileyRose]

3. We spend a hell of a lot more than that on corporate bailouts.

[edhopper]

4. ding, ding, ding

we have a winner!

[liberal renegade]

5. so corporate bailouts are

part of the federal budget?

[SmileyRose]

7. Who's paying for it?

Doesn't matter if it's an OFFICIAL budget line item or not. Every single corporate bailout that ever was comes out of our pockets, not the pockets of the people who screwed up the company to begin with -- they still walk away with all their millions and "let's make the tax cuts permanent".

[liberal renegade]

11. it does matter!

[midnight armadillo]

6. More like $1 trillion

.

[yardwork]

2. This makes me so angry, especially since the stupid invasion and occupation of Iraq.

I've been so disgusted I can't get any more disgusted, so the news of our buying out a bunch of companies that failed due to greed, stupidity, and deregulation just leaves me at the same level of maximum disgust.

I'll tell you what, though. Nobody better ever say to my face again that we can't afford healthcare.

[Vinca]

8. Because we're bailing out the insurance companies

that have made healthcare unaffordable. I emailed my congressman to complain about me - uninsured - sending my tax dollars to bail out a company that wouldn't cover me.

[old mark]

9. Because righties have convinced a lot of people

that health care is "socialism".

It's really all about the gigantic profits generated by our current non-system - for profit health care, multi-millionare doctors, multi-billion helth insurance companies, and people trapped working in hated jobs because they really need to have that insurance.

Yet our elected officials ALL have lifetime healthcare and it's not socialism for them....


mark

[raccoon]

10. If we paid for that, how would we pay for imperial wars? :sarcasm: nt