Oh yeah and for more controversial topics.. I haven't forgotten them as they are key issues that critics think OWS and other Occupations are all about gimmegimmegimme:
I do not know what to think of single payer healthcare. The problem for me starts with the fact that the costs of things that require health insurance keep going up because there is a collective pool of money from which to grab. The system is inflating itself because everyone has to have it and the influx of new accounts as required with Obamacare has made operations even more expensive. It was a shit move that tried to tie in a socialist construct with only doing a halfassed job at it (the option bill cannot work).
Other entitlements are abused as well. I do not like this. They should be used for people who genuinely need it. Dorothea Dix was shut down a few years ago here in Raleigh. Some of the people who were being sheltered there are now in prison, homeless, or out on their own with no help whatsoever. This is akin to medieval times and the asylums. What the fuck, THESE are the people that need help. Those that abuse things such as EBT, welfare, etc. are the problem. The system itself wouldn't be abused if there was better oversight. These are conditional issues that have cropped up over the years. They are problems that need fixing by repairing the system, not eradicating it. I could maybe go for state-level reproductions of the same system but then you're going into more detail of unequal statehood. That should NOT be the case in this country.
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