Magicpole
Well-Known Member
I agree with #1, and it's one of things about my country that so puzzles me. But it's a genie-out-of-the-bottle problem. I have plenty of gun-toting friends who I think and hope are responsible, since they all have young kids. But personally I don't know how a good whose sole purpose is to harm can be anything but THE most highly-regulated good in existence. But in the US, it isn't, and the NRA is incredibly powerful for a simple reason -- their base threat is that if you attempt to take away our weapons, we will barricade ourselves inside our homes and just have gun battle with the government. In short, they advocate violent revolution to keep what they already own and believe the Constitution gives them a right to.
#2 is right too. That's a somewhat greater problem than a President can embrace. So many politicians look for easy solutions that get them votes, like raising the minimum wage, or substantial wealth transfer via taxation, that have broader consequences. And relatively speaking, poor Americans aren't as poor as their counterparts in nearly every country, which always seems to be the rationalization for lack of effort. #3 -- he tried. I can tell you pre-existing condition issues and small business/self-employed healthcare are two big problems ACA helped solve. But it will be gutted by this Administration. At least he should get credited for trying.
Where he has been poor is, in my view, foreign relations, which have deteriorated with many nations, friend and foe alike, and visibility, which I thought was very low for a President. He could have been a more outspoken leader and a guy that charged from the front. And I think he snowed a lot of people who thought he was more moderate than he really was.
I'm not sure you are correct in relative poverty. Also, the poor nearly everywhere else in the civilised world have health care free at the point of delivery, Single User.
Now don't get me wring, the bold Trumpeteer is going to replace Obamacare with something terrific.
Tragically for the scumny, rancid, sex offending racist bastard, that hope is unraveling every day.
Having poor people who are also scared to be ill seems to us a penalisation of the poor for having the audacity to be poor.
I too have a lot of respect for Obama. You have replaced him with a psychotic, infantile, hate filled twat, who denies global warming and is going to make it a lot worse.
I saw another woman in LA has come forward to say he sexually assaulted her.
But that seems to be ok. I think the US will look back at this scumbag as the most shameful and destructive presidency ever.
If he doesn't blow us all up that is.
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