merikeyegro
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Yeah, I'm sure that people eating 42 pounds of McDonald's per week and having heart attacks has nothing to do with health insurance going up. If you get rid of malpractice lawsuits, you have no incentive for doctors to be careful when they practice medicine. You would then have the opposite effect. Insurance having to pay for the extended medical care necessary due to the malpractice. Like them or not, lawyers and lawsuits are necessary evils. Blame them all you want, until you need a lawyer. I guarantee you'll find the meanest and greediest one you can handle. Just ask a few of the divorcees on this board how that works. Or just wait until Delta airlines fails to maintain the brakes on its catering food truck and it injures you while you preflight. Or wait until your chiropractor, working on your back problems due to your sitting on your @ss all day, causes nerve damage from manipulating too violently. Or wait until your own child goes in for something as simple as a tooth extraction and comes out in a coma because the dentist didn't bother to use the proper anesthesia. Again, you don't know you've got until it's gone. Malpractice caps do not benefit the consumer, but the business. There's a reason Bush pushes for it.
How come Bushies tout the fact that there is less inflation today than ever yet when the debt figures are rolled out, they blame inflation? The debt in September of 1992 (just prior to Clinton being elected) was $4,064,620,655,521.66. That's according to your own beloved Bureau of Public Debt. Today, that number is $7,347,867,800,168.01. Again, according to the same source. Look at http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpenny.htm for proof, since you obviously need it to smack you in the head for you to believe it. That's an increase of $3,283,247,144,646.35 in 12 years. Based on your logic, that means that the US dollar has lost 45% of its value in 12 years. The problem is that the numbers don't add up. Check http://www.westegg.com/inflation/infl.cgi for an inflation calculator. You'll find that $100 today is worth $77.58 in 1992. That means that the dollar has lost only 22.42% in 12 years - half of the increase in the debt. So, therefore, the debt has increased due to other measures, such as deficit spending. Keep in mind also that an inflated currency actually helps pay down a monetary debt. The debt has the same dollar value regardless of inflation. So, if you simply double the money supply (100% inflation) by printing more greenbacks, you can pay down the debt twice as fast. Very bad idea. You'll inflate the hell out of the economy and kill business everywhere, but foreigners will like your goods and you'll pay down your debt. You and your neighbor will lose your @sses in your stock portfolios, as well as likely lose your jobs. But you'll have less debt.
It's a simple finance lesson that you Bushies seem to fail. After all, Bush graduated from Harvard Business School. You'd think he would be able to educate the rest of us on these realities. He can't. Hell, I just explained it to you. I go to B-school at ERAU.
Next time you challenge me to post facts, you might want to look at a few yourself. I used gov't data to support this. Gov't data supported by your White House and the Exec Branch of gov't. Google is a beautiful thing. Learn it.
It doesn't matter how you dice it. The debt is higher, Bush spends too much money that he doesn't have, and you can't blame Clinton or inflation. Give it up.
Bush = The Excuses President
How come Bushies tout the fact that there is less inflation today than ever yet when the debt figures are rolled out, they blame inflation? The debt in September of 1992 (just prior to Clinton being elected) was $4,064,620,655,521.66. That's according to your own beloved Bureau of Public Debt. Today, that number is $7,347,867,800,168.01. Again, according to the same source. Look at http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpenny.htm for proof, since you obviously need it to smack you in the head for you to believe it. That's an increase of $3,283,247,144,646.35 in 12 years. Based on your logic, that means that the US dollar has lost 45% of its value in 12 years. The problem is that the numbers don't add up. Check http://www.westegg.com/inflation/infl.cgi for an inflation calculator. You'll find that $100 today is worth $77.58 in 1992. That means that the dollar has lost only 22.42% in 12 years - half of the increase in the debt. So, therefore, the debt has increased due to other measures, such as deficit spending. Keep in mind also that an inflated currency actually helps pay down a monetary debt. The debt has the same dollar value regardless of inflation. So, if you simply double the money supply (100% inflation) by printing more greenbacks, you can pay down the debt twice as fast. Very bad idea. You'll inflate the hell out of the economy and kill business everywhere, but foreigners will like your goods and you'll pay down your debt. You and your neighbor will lose your @sses in your stock portfolios, as well as likely lose your jobs. But you'll have less debt.
It's a simple finance lesson that you Bushies seem to fail. After all, Bush graduated from Harvard Business School. You'd think he would be able to educate the rest of us on these realities. He can't. Hell, I just explained it to you. I go to B-school at ERAU.
Next time you challenge me to post facts, you might want to look at a few yourself. I used gov't data to support this. Gov't data supported by your White House and the Exec Branch of gov't. Google is a beautiful thing. Learn it.
It doesn't matter how you dice it. The debt is higher, Bush spends too much money that he doesn't have, and you can't blame Clinton or inflation. Give it up.
Bush = The Excuses President
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