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Originally Posted by MagicRat

1. Cap and trade does allow coal, oil, drilling etc. When it works properly, it assigns a realistic value to the relevant environmental impact. If you own or are thinking of buying or selling a home at some point in your lifetime, you better hope cap and tax doesn't go through, wow, talk about taking away our liberties... read the bill, it's scary as hell.

2. I do not think that nuclear power is included in "cap and trade". If there is a source that says otherwise, let me know. You can look it up online and read the bill.

3. Health care IS a right, not a privelege. IMO it says so in the Declaration of Independence....... Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. IMO you cannot have any of these inalienable rights if you are sick or die prematurely because you cannot get good health care. Exactly, I agree! We have the best health care in the world, (for now). That's why millions of people come here annually for health care, from countries with government provided health care. France, Canada, UK, etc. They come here and pay for it, that's their privelege if they have the funds, just as it is ours. Retireing with a comfortable lifestyle would make all Americans happy, but that kind of "happiness" is not addressed in the Declaration of Independence either, it's not a right, it's a privelege, that you earn.

Now, I do not necessarily mean free health care. Free??? If ObamaCare goes through it most certainly will not be free. The CBO has already estimated it will cost the average family over $625 per month! Considerably more than the average American pays now for un-rationed health care! If people can afford to, they should pay a reasonable amount for it. I agree with you, but, $625 a month is not a "reasonable amount". If they can't afford it, they shouldn't get it for free. But EVERYONE deserves coverage, without question and without reservation, as per the Declaration. Haven't yet seen a hospital turn anyone away.

4. Nobody wants the health care bill? According to the news, 61% don't want it, that would be a majority. I keep hearing that 57 million Americans have either no coverage at all, or insubstantial coverage. Surely they want a health care bill. Of course they do, they're the ones looking for a hand-out, they think they're entitled to it. They drank the kool-aid without paying attention before the election. If they have the funds, go buy insurance, or, here's a novel idea, pay for their own health care, like everybody else. 57 million calculates to approximately 19% of our population. Why take over the best health care in the world for such a small minority? That's not the point, the point is, Government has no business interfering with the private sector, much less take it over. If I remember right, that's in the Constitution!


5. Last time I looked, the Supreme Court was part of the Union, so it's fair game in this address Yes, you're right, I agree. But really, the Supreme Court?? He's only the president, and aparently it's debateable if he's legitimate. Funny how he can't/won't produce college papers, or nobody can find them.

Imo the real problem in DC (besides wasting taxpayer money)..... all the partisan politics, where elected officials operate to support their party and their friends and colleagues, instead of actually cooperating, working with each other and pass sensible, balanced legislation. Yeah, it's really too bad that the liberals think their ideas are the only ideas.

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