Universal Healthcare sounds great and all, however, the government cannot afford it. You cannot continue to keep on raising the debt ceiling without there being some serious consequences that will probably be soon upon us. Rapidly disappearing manufacturing base, rising unemployment, low-wage service based economy, two wars going on, billions in foreign aid(#1 Israel, #2 Saudi Arabia), reckless and stupid spending, trade deficits, welfare/food stamp/Section 8 handouts, medicare fraud, millions of unskilled, non-assimilating, nationalistic immigrants pouring into our country, devaluing of the dollar......and people continue to debate stupid shit like rednecks throwing a brick through a politician's office window or if Obama is a communist or not.
Government finances should be run like a business, but it never is. People who want all these things that are taken for granted, like, you know, our military, police, fire, roads, schools, social security, medicare, etc....think all this shit is paid for out of some government bottomless bag. It isn't. Our debts will catch up to us.
So which is it? Forgiveness of all debts? Sink the dollar, and start a new commodity-based currency? Or let the US become the world's biggest garage sale at rock bottom prices?
