Midcan5's Blog

"Man robs bank so he can go to jail and get health care." Listen don't knock him, soon Americans will be committing crime to get an education, eat, and have a roof over their head. In the Great Depression they just didn't have these nice prison facilitates, anyone who thinks America hasn't progressed is dead wrong. Prisons are nice now compared to a republican world, and republicans love them as privatization will mean more cash in their coffers. The elderly are actually banning together into gangs and hoping for one of those nice white collar prisons when Ryan and cohorts screw them on Medicare and Social Security. Good idea, prison, don't you think? While it is rather odd that prisoners do better than working Americans don't knock it as one day you may need it. Prisons may just become the new retirement facilities, we'll need legislation for 55 and older prisons. And when welfare goes, no one will complain about a solid roof over their head and ni...

Reagan Raised Taxes Reagan Raised Taxes Reagan Raised Taxes Reagan Raised Taxes If Ronald Reagan came back today, he wouldn't know who Ronald Reagan was? The GOP has used Reagan to justify their bad policies for so long it is time republicans of sense realized who Reagan was and what he really did. And kudos to Ronnie for his bipartisan work on Social Security. "Faced with looming deficits, Reagan raised taxes again in 1983 with a gasoline tax and once more in 1984, this time by $50 billion over three years, mainly through closing tax loopholes for business. Despite the fact that such increases were anathema to conservatives–and probably cost Reagan’s successor, George H.W. Bush, reelection–Reagan raised taxes a grand total of four times just between 1982-84." Read article here.

I am not a moral relativist. I think the fact the richest nation on earth does not provide healthcare for all its citizens immoral. I do not accept the argument that in any society class, privilege, and wealth are the only determinants of good healthcare. I think that access to good healthcare is a good and a foundation for any arguments on individual freedom. How can any American argue that something that hurts children is just the way it is and the alternate too costly. How can a America without healthcare claim to be a religious, caring, freedom loving nation.