Ok...this may be long but hear me out. I think that alot of americans will agree with this post.This post is very important to our country and it's future.Ok, in my previous post about Our contenders for the white house, There are alot of troubling things about America and its current position.

1. Is there any possible solution to the future of Social Security for us busting our humps everyday?

Yes. China will hold an Elephant Sale.

Learn to speak Mandarin now.

2. Will there ever be some serious Tax relief for us average joe's?

Not in this lifetime.

3. Will there ever be a possible solution to universal heath coverage including dental for all Americans?

Not as long as there are health care lobbies and paid off politicians.

4. With McCain...serious guy...you back the downslide of our current america and the war. True...I believe that we as we as other countries though need to put just as many men and women up as we do. Why do the americans gotta be slaughtered for this? And why McCain would we want to put your hot headed attitude behind a nuclear red button when times are going to get testy? You back the war and do it with strong pride. Power tripping are we already? We can see through the fake smile and you look like glass. We see right through it. You only wanaa help the rich. You have yet said anything about working people.

'My friends, we are going to war with Iran.'

That pretty much sums up a McCain Administration.

5. Working class people who do work don't even get mandatory supplied health care\dental\vision by their employers. why not?

The employers are cheapskates.

6. With College tuition rising and jobs and the "minimum wage limit" never increases? How can we afford college for these so called" good jobs" when there isn't any jobs out there to make any kind of money for tuition let alone bills,food? hello? anyone really up there folks?

Zen Buddists meditate on these and other insoluble riddles for years and never find solutions.

7. Joking aside fer a second...this country sorta is very backwards and not right to begin with considering they call it a driveway when you park on it and a parkway when you drive on it! ..... or if we're not suppose to drink and drive then why in the hell is there parking lots at bars?

You must be a George Carlin fan.

8. In regards to my other post called" funs with Guns" ......You all need to seriously hear them and listen to it man. we don't even feel safe in our own country!

I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the gunshots and the police sirens...

9. Ok....and next, Our children should at least have mandatory health care and dental with vision all accross the board nationally. Is there such thing existing in every state? Hell no.....why not? These things for our children should be a priority not a luxury or "if you or your parents can afford it". BS!

That's the Golden Rule... He who has the Gold makes the rules!!

10...Lastly......NONE of you running have addressed none of this fer squatt except Hilary. Why?............Is she the only one who cares lately? NO! we as common working stiff americans who pay your high ass stupid salaries are the ones addressing these problems amongst ourselves.You need to wake up or drop out! thats just an opinnion of one amongst a nation of concerned Americans.....Thank you.

It remains to be seen what Hillary will actually do if elected President.

Hillary will say anything now just to get elected.

our nation is crap and retarded right now and we need help and we don't know whats going on or who to vote for and whos lying....there I think

It's all very serious though.

I view our country in a totally different perspective than you do.

Yes you do, but sometimes we agree.

We live in the greatest country in the world.

Compared to the Congo or just about any third-world country, yes, this is the greatest country in the world.

The question is:

Are people better off now than they were 8 years ago?

The problem is that people here in the US do not appreciate what they have. They want more and more, yet do not realize that all of these projects require money to finance them and that means up with taxes unless all the pork spending is done away with, which is what Senator McCain will do.

No, they just want what is fair, which they are not getting.

Lindyy, do you really believe that Sen. John McCain, supported by the Republicans, will do away with pork?

After all, George Bush Jr., was the King of Corporate Pork, overspending and fiscal irresponsibility.

Universal health care would be a total disaster. You will be told which doctor/hospital you can go to, whether or not you can receive the treatment the doctor/hospital says you need, there will be waiting lists for treatment, operations, and on and on. I do not think you can force an employer to provide health care coverage. I know that businesses a certain size have to provide some sort of a 401(k), etc.

So how will people who can't afford health care be covered?

Maybe they should just die and 'decrease the surplus population' (Scrooge quote from D i c kens' 'A Christmas Carol').

President Bush tried to implement a reasonable plan to improve social security, the democrats would not go along with it and yet they had NO proposal of their own, other than to say social security is in fine shape.

The Social Security crisis was a manufactured crisis if there ever was one.

Social Security will be solvent for a long time.

But yes, at some point, it will need reform.

Letting Wall Street control my Social Security would be like letting a gambler hold all my money instead of putting it in the bank.

I have heard Senator McCain has a bad temper via the media, yet I have yet to see this ever.

Then you haven't been looking hard enough.

McCain understands foreign policy and terrorism. He has my vote.

Well, probably not well enough if Joe Lieberman has to correct him.

He understands the economy even less.

Lindyy

1. Social Security is busted. Let me invest the money you would be taking "for my retirement" I know I can do better with it than the government. Where in the constitution does it say that the federal government should take care of us when we get old?

2. Tax relief? Not if a Dem gets in. Tax & spend.

3. Health care is not the responsibility of the government. It is the governments job to make sure the free market works as it should so that competition between providers for your business (or your employer's) results in lower prices. Prices are too high in all medical fields mainly because of ridiculous insurance rates for doctors and others (mainly the fault of slip & fall lawyers and those litigants looking for something for nothing). Tort reform!

4. I didn't really understand your question here but, if we pull out of Iraq prior to when they can defend themselves from the TERRORISTIC SCUM WHO WANT TO KILL YOU and all "infidels" then there will be a vacuum that the bad guys will fill. They will then use the oil$$ to fund more terroristic activities. Don't believe me? Ask any member of any radical Islamic organization and they will tell you with glee that they aim to kill you.

5. Mandated by whom? If your employer does not provide assistance with health care then, A) Find a job with better benefits. B)Get your own plan. If your employer isn't taking $$ out of your check to cover medical coverage you should be able to shop around and find something. It won't be free and shouldn't be.

6. Increasing the minimum wage is a good way to force employers who are already over taxed to downsize and look for cheaper labor elsewhere. Nobody is promised a college education, hell I don't have one. Is the government going to pay for me to get a degree so I can achieve my full earning potential or would I be better served to "man up" and do my best and succeed despite my lack of book learnin'?

7. Drink & stay put!

8. I'm not positive but aren't we the American people subsidizing millions of folks without health care by paying higher costs when we need services? I think so. Health care providers are not allowed to turn away patients because of an inability to pay. This is why you see a line of illegals at most emergency rooms to get care for the sniffles and their bad corns.

9. I don't own a gun but am seriously considering purchasing one before that liberty is taken away from me. I don't think that the original framers would think it was a good idea to outlaw arms for the common American. That right is to make sure that the people if not being served by their government can defend themselves from it and anyone else who would do them harm. Besides "If you outlaw guns only outlaws will have guns."

10. We are really thinking about things differently aren't we? I think Hillary lies every time she opens her mouth. I don't think she can help it. She is a socialist bordering on a Marxist in her opinions on government control over health care, retirement, education and all of the other social programs she promises will fix everything. At what cost? Tax the millionaires and corporations more? So they have to lay off folks to make their profit margins? Then we will have more unemployed folks looking for handouts from the all caring and giving federal government. Who will pay for those people? That's right ...you and I will through tax hike after tax hike. Socialism does not work. We should all strive to have less government intrusion in our lives. Give me tax vouchers so I can send my kids to private schools that teach the things I believe in and hold dear. I don't pay my taxes to have the public school system (most powerful union on the planet IMO is the teachers union) indoctrinate my kids with their leftist dribble.


Yours was long. Mine was longer.

God bless America (the way the framers envisioned it).

I am better off now than I was 8 years ago however my country's government is in far worse shape and getting worse every day that congress is in session.