Obamacare

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Tchocky

Yeah, healthcare. How irrelevant.

The explicit debts exceed the yearly GDP. The implicit debts exceed the yearly GDP by several factors. When you want something, you need to afford it. If you spend more than you earn, you get problems. If you live beyond what you can afford, you get problems. If you do not earn what you want to spend, you get problems. No matter how shiny your desires and wishes are.

These are simple truths. Likes and dislikes have nothing to do with it. The US wants much more than it can afford.

Even today everybody wants a party, and nobody wants to clean. Everybody agrees that something must change, but nobody wants to be affected by changes and reductions.

If there is one thing I "believe" in, then it is Karma, the inevitable and unavoidable causal link between cause and effect. People and nations will get from their mishandling of finances and their political decisions exactly what they deserve. And it ain't gonna be nice, that much is sure.


^ All this not meaning that just saying yes or no to Obamacare would solve problems. Its just a symptom of the psychological deformation crippling politicians and ordinary people alike, and socialism being an inbred genetic feature of democracy from all beginning on, always necessarily ruining it from within. So many more revolutionary changes than just Obamacare yes or no would be needed. In all major countries/economies on the globe. Simultaneously, from a historical POV.

I see no reason to be optimistic there.