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Response to HTWW's teabagger speech. I wasn't impressed.

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[bbender1986]

comming from a WHITE rasta knappy headed poor dude.. are you against cleaning and soap jesus christ what is that brown shit on your wall and gods sakes i can see more grease on your face through the distorted camera so i can't imagine how it would glow with just pure self inflicted pizza grease..so lets all listen to your views..your obvously a real winner....what you work in a record store and lee is a lawyer..wow top notch.

[jtoon200]

Sherman Anti-Trust allows monopolies to exist if they can "do it", whatever "it" may be, better than their competition. I would've preferred to see the too-big-to-fails crumble. I know what you mean about the gold standard. If it were reimplemented today I'd be the first in line at the bank for my gold. In the news today I felt sick, they want to fine people who don't have health insurance. If that passes, people who can't afford it in the first place are stuck between a rock and a hard place.

[Celephais42]

implement until we are back to economic stability, if the history around the Depression has any relevance.

[Celephais42]

This is true, we did revert to the Keynesian model for the bailout that we used to get out of the Great Depression and was used until Reagan came into office. However, that is just a temporary switch for the moment. Had we maintained the Sherman Anti-Trust laws we never would have had these companies that were too big to fail, and big enough that -A- department of -A- company could cause a worldwide economic regression. And while I agree on the gold standard this wouldn't be wise to

[jtoon200]

I'm not familiar with Friedman monetarism so I won't make a comment on that. All I know is that it's to keep inflation in check. And if that's the case, we aren't even using it since we're cranking billions of dollars off the presses. I prefer the gold standard, simple and easy to manage.

[Celephais42]

OK, so the HSAs aren't a bad idea, as long as, as mentioned above, there is some sort of emergency care in place for these usually young and healthy lower wage workers. Employment rates and healthcare should be hand in hand issues, as easing the healthcare issue can reduce some strain on business. All in all, I'd say we're still screwed unless we move away from Friedman's monetarism, which has failed in every country it was implemented, the US being the final nail in the coffin.

[jtoon200]

Alright.

[Celephais42]

Let me think about this a bit before I give a response.

[jtoon200]

Right now I think getting employment up is a higher priority than healthcare. Getting an HSA through your employer would be a huge help to lower wage workers though. The employer puts a bit into the account every so often and it starts to add up. Lower wage workers are usually young and healthy, so they'll have the money to pay for care when they actually need it later in life. As opposed to getting into the broken insurance system.

[Celephais42]

I'm not opposed to HSAs the problem with them though is that in my area one would have to be making at least my wages to be able to have money left over after all of the bills, buying food and putting gas in the car. And I'm making $5/hr more than the minimum wage. In the state with the highest unemployment rate in the country HSAs could be part of the solution, but they aren't the full solution.