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Old 07-03-2012, 01:51 PM
 
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-Nationalize Health Care. Buy out all medical companies and make the entire industry not for profit.

-Nationalize the Oil industry and regulate the prices

-Nationalize all military hardware/service organizations.

These are three essential industries that should not be handed over to greedy capitalists. The entire world would respect the USA for taking these measures.
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Old 07-03-2012, 01:52 PM
 
Location: MASSACHUSETTS
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Americans really need to be forced to make healthier lifestyle choices, our economy will boom like never before if we became more healthy. Also stop forcing Americans to single handedly finance the R&D for Pharmaceuticals while the rest of the world gets a free ride
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Old 07-03-2012, 01:54 PM
 
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Americans really need to be forced to make healthier lifestyle choices, our economy will boom like never before if we became more healthy
If someone offered me free health care? I would be Lance Armstrong on the stationary bike if that's what it took. I'm looking at paying $1500 per month for health insurance when I retire.

Canadians I know are absolutely shocked when I tell them that.
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Old 07-03-2012, 01:55 PM
 
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I would also put the banking industry on notice to clean up their house or risk having a US Treasury/IRS Agent stationed in every single bank at their expense.
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Old 07-03-2012, 02:00 PM
 
Location: MASSACHUSETTS
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If someone offered me free health care? I would be Lance Armstrong on the stationary bike if that's what it took. I'm looking at paying $1500 per month for health insurance when I retire.

Canadians I know are absolutely shocked when I tell them that.
Don't you get medicaid when you retire?
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Old 07-03-2012, 02:02 PM
 
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Americans really need to be forced to make healthier lifestyle choices, our economy will boom like never before if we became more healthy. Also stop forcing Americans to single handedly finance the R&D for Pharmaceuticals while the rest of the world gets a free ride
So you are for the war on drugs and want government to fully control what people put into their bodies..... this also means regulating pot and alcohol....


Tell us how prohibition worked out the first time
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Old 07-03-2012, 02:06 PM
 
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Don't you get medicaid when you retire?
There's a period of time between retirement and Medicare age for me. My retirement date is 59 but Medicare age is 67
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Old 07-03-2012, 02:29 PM
 
Location: MASSACHUSETTS
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There's a period of time between retirement and Medicare age for me. My retirement date is 59 but Medicare age is 67
You should work longer bro because it' a proven fact that people who work longer live longer. Retired people deteriorate quicker than a bowl of mayo in death valley
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Old 07-03-2012, 03:02 PM
 
Location: Berwick, Penna.
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-Nationalize Health Care. Buy out all medical companies and make the entire industry not for profit.

-Nationalize the Oil industry and regulate the prices

-Nationalize all military hardware/service organizations.

These are three essential industries that should not be handed over to greedy capitalists. The entire world would respect the USA for taking these measures.
Great Britain tried most of this back in 1945; it deteriorated for over 30 iears until a lady named Thatcher, heavily-supported by younger voters, started kicking a few butts.

One of the biggest casualties was the heavily-regulated coal industry -- inefficient and dominated by its unions. North Sea gas and nuclear power put it out of business, and alternative energy will keep it that way.

You can't promise a favor to every drunk, druggie, dropout and Democrat in town, and expect to support them by whipping a dead horse.
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Old 07-03-2012, 03:06 PM
 
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-Nationalize Health Care. Buy out all medical companies and make the entire industry not for profit.

-Nationalize the Oil industry and regulate the prices

-Nationalize all military hardware/service organizations.

These are three essential industries that should not be handed over to greedy capitalists. The entire world would respect the USA for taking these measures.

How are you going to nationalize a multinational oil corporation?
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