Reply to Anyone out there willing to admit being a tea party member & Why?

Forum Index » Political Discussion

Reply to "Anyone out there willing to admit being a tea party member & Why?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]

Can you explain children who die due to social services inefficiencies ?  Why veteran care is so poor?  Why doctors can't pay their overhead if they took only Medicare patients?  How the IRS makes errors and destroys people's lives through Leon's, garnishings, etc?  If private corporations made these mistakes, heads would roll. And do. Government?  Not so much.[/quote]

I can say that FEWER children die, for any reason, now than at any other time in history. A lot of it is improved nutrition (WIC, food stamps), a lot of it is improved medical care (medicaid). Tax collection has ALWAYS been a source of potential corruption, and a source of great loss when abused. It is better regulated now than it ever has been.

Am I saying that everything is great and we should just leave it all alone and our work here is done? Hell no.

Are you saying that an institution that doesn't function at 100% effectiveness and perfection should be abolished, whether or not there is something better to replace it? Yeah, it kinda sounds like you are. [/quote]

I'm saying adding to it while acknowledging gross inefficiencies is completely irresponsible. A private corporation would soon go out of business with that model [/quote]

You allege "gross" inefficiencies. The numbers say otherwise-- quite the opposite, actually. More services provided to more people for less money per service/ person. Your position is a soundbite. It is not reality. Again, we're not talking about our opinions. This isn't how we "feel". You have seen many sad-eyed news reporters talking about this or that child who was failed by the system, and so you believe it to be a scourge upon our nation's children. But if you were able to find and understand the data, the only depiction of objective reality that is available to any of us, you would see that we are so much better off than ever before. [/quote]

Provide the data [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics