Posted by creilmann on 8/30/2010 7:46:00 AM (view original):
Posted by swamphawk22 on 8/29/2010 11:47:00 PM (view original):
1 It isnt a rant that I am being censored by the left. Just beacuse you dont do it doesnt mean it is happening.
2 Let me pick a few of my favorites.
What would be the down side of Tort Reform. You always point to the rest of the world, isnt our legal system a global oddity?
Saying you work for 40 years. If someone retired this year would they have been better off investing half of their SS in a general blue chip mutual for the last 40 years?
Other places create standards that help them. Our standards are being created to help the world. GM should be able to sell the cars that make them money.
How much has the ADA cost American business? Is the tiny percentage of people it helps worth the overall cost?
Education and Energy got Departments as mostly political posturing. What does the DOE do that a branch of HHS couldt do with less money.
There seems to be some confusion amongst the far right as to what censorship is. If people choose to ignore you, that is not the same as censoring you. If people speak against your POV, that does not in any way infringe on your 1st Amendment rights.
When given the chance to clearly define your position, you respond with questions and defer to generalizations. You don't need to cover five topics in one post. I know you dislike regulations. I know you think that public services should be privatized. WHY do you think this?
These were all answers to specific questions from you.
I have explained and shown evidence to support that the current tort system cost business money and adds greatly to the nations medical bill. I relaize there was data that countered that so we get no where there. I posed the question what is the down side of tort reform. Even it it is the 2% you claim what is the downside to doing it. In phrasing it that way I am saying that I can see no down side. I also posed it in an international light. You have commented a couple of times that the rest of the world can do something why not us. Our tort system is a global oddity. No one anywhere does it like we do.
You did ask what would happen to someone who privatized there SS after this crash. My point was that you dont save for your retirement for a couple of years, you save for a lifetime. Over the course of your lifetime almost everyone would do better with an investment account. For the handful that dont we can take up the slack. No more anacdotes about seniors eating dog food.
Your last paragraph ased why public should be private.
I think the government is horrible at accounting. Everything that goes into the government comes out losing half the value. We have a top flight military, but we dont have a cheap military. Remember $400 toliet seats.
When we go from a part of the HEW to the Dept of Education a certain amount of money goes to administration. This is money that never gets to the kids. There is a huge difference between the money that goes into DOE and the money that schools see. It is easier to see it in this department because we know what they do. How do we know what the waste at the dept of Energy is?
I have heard left wing talk using the line that Tea Party wants to get rid of Fire Departments and Federal Highways. Of course that is nuts. We want the government the size it was during the 50s when the massive expansion of government started. We dont want to gut the government, just limit its influence. Pull back to the level that makes sense, not eliminate it.
I hope this explains my position a little better. Now why dont you answer my questions. This isnt me on trial for Conservatism. This is give and take. Explain some of your positions.