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Boom. So much positive stuff Trump did for America and most people don't know it - primarily because the media wanted to promote a negative narrative surrounding his administration.
You don’t fix student debt by just paying it off for everyone. Get real. That just will cause more inflation and prices to rise. You get control of prices by being “conservative”. That means reducing spending in a big way. Cut programs that aren’t doing well, cut programs that cost the university too much to keep alive. Reimagine education in a way that doesn’t make student attend for four years to get the equivalent of a bachelors.
Healthcare is more complex to fix. Government does NOTHING efficiently so handing it over to them entirely would be catastrophic. I think it will take a combination of public and private partnerships to solve the healthcare problem. We also need reevaluate what healthcare means. If we all want increasing services then we can’t complain about increasing costs. Need new innovative, cost effective ways to get the basics.
So, why is Medicare overhead 1/10 of that of private insurance
With real estate so rapidly outpacing wages, I don't know how any single person makes it without investments or an inheritance. Unlike the old days, your salary just doesn't get you there.
In some places, people are building more hotels and bars than they are housing.
Is the OP son on insulin? Is that what this is all about?
Being diabetic is no fun and although you may not be screwed, it is no way to start off adulthood.
I agree we should cut back on things that aren't useful. Dramatic cuts to large budget items like military spending makes sense. Putting that money toward helping people get to a place they can improve their situations (increasing minimum wage, student loan forgiveness) and enacting policies that would reduce cost (universal health care, and getting the profit motive out of that industry) is a good start.
We aren't at risk of the dollar collapsing. I've worked in investment management for a long time, in my opinion that isn't a risk worth entertaining. We need to spend smartly to turn things around.
Everything you just wrote will only make the problem worse. You don’t spend your way out of debt and budget deficits.
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You don’t fix student debt by just paying it off for everyone. Get real. That just will cause more inflation and prices to rise. You get control of prices by being “conservative”. That means reducing spending in a big way. Cut programs that aren’t doing well, cut programs that cost the university too much to keep alive. Reimagine education in a way that doesn’t make student attend for four years to get the equivalent of a bachelors. 
