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One glaring problem with democracy nobody mentions

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TraceOneInfinite:
Let me respond to some of the criticisms and questions above....

7even, thought that it was ridiculous to think that people would spend their money in the way the government does.  And he is exactly right, people would never be so wasteful with their own money as the government is with othe peoples money.  which is exactly why we need to get government out of our lives so we can spend our hard earned income on what is most important to us and going to add the most value to our own individual lives.  Also, 7, government in America functioned just fine the first 100 years of its existence without the 100s of government programs that interfere with our lives today, from the war on drugs, patriot act, medicare, medicaid, the government even threatened to make anti steroid laws for baseball as if that was ever a duty afforded to the government in the constitution.

The next question was about health care, and the supposed harmful ramifications of Ron Paul removing the failed government programs medicare and medicaid.

Well, if you want to know the consequences of removing medicare and medicaid then one only needs to go back 50 years into this years country before medicaid and medicare were introduced and they will see a time in which doctors could actually make house calls!  Doctors and nurses could actually do what they are supposed to be doing which is called patient care.  Do you guys know what doctors and nurses spend most of their time doing these days?  They spend their time doing buttloads of paper work to cover their asses against all the rules and regulations hospitals and nursing homes must pass to allow them to carry medicare and medicaid patients.  Doctors spend their times writing things like, "patient ate today, patient had bowel movement today, patient did not fally today".

Let me give another simple example of how government has turned health care into a beauracratic nightmare.  I was talking to a old nurse the other day, and she said many years ago one of her family members was in a nursing home.  They used to bring the loads of laundry up and the residents would work right alongside the nurses and fold laundry, it was a family atmosphere, and family members would cook food and deserts and bring them to the home, and even help out at time with patient care.  Well now, it is illegal for patients to do any work without you paying them (even when those activities increase their self-worth and self-esteem) and it is illegal to bring outside food into a hospital, and it is illegal for a family member or a nurse to do any activity a doctor might do because they will be sued for malpractice even if they know exactly what they are doing and perform it flawlessly.... and ofcourse all these things have driven up healthcare costs atronomically and nursing homes are prisons and have no family atmosphere anymore.

Someone else asked, what about poor people?  Well, have you noticed, poor people still aren't receiving proper care, our emergency rooms look like grand central station, and you can't use an alternative facility or a non-fda approved drug treatment for lower cost because that is also illegal now.

I could go on forever.

Don Rizzle:
IF you wanna talk about debt why not bring up japan? their national debt is 1.5 times their GDP they have the biggest debt in the world and a US slow down won't help matters that is why I just sold on my japanese shares. for those with money to spare Asia markets excluding Japan is where to put your money right now.

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