Comments on: Spending (It’s For the Children) http://www.freedomtalks.org/2008/01/10/spending-its-for-the-children/ The FreedomWorks blog dedicated to lower taxes and more freedom. Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:51:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: cba1001a9f5e http://www.freedomtalks.org/2008/01/10/spending-its-for-the-children/#comment-84939 cba1001a9f5e Fri, 09 May 2008 06:33:59 +0000 http://www.freedomtalks.org/2008/01/10/spending-its-for-the-children/#comment-84939 <strong>cba1001a9f5e...</strong> cba1001a9f5e06ec75eb... cba1001a9f5e…

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]]> By: Mister Guy http://www.freedomtalks.org/2008/01/10/spending-its-for-the-children/#comment-74567 Mister Guy Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:27:50 +0000 http://www.freedomtalks.org/2008/01/10/spending-its-for-the-children/#comment-74567 The inevitable happened...Fred Thompson can now go back to his looong nap... The inevitable happened…Fred Thompson can now go back to his looong nap…

]]> By: Trey http://www.freedomtalks.org/2008/01/10/spending-its-for-the-children/#comment-73892 Trey Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:59:25 +0000 http://www.freedomtalks.org/2008/01/10/spending-its-for-the-children/#comment-73892 Fred Thompson's Reagan Conservative spending and entitlement policies: 1. http://www.fred08.com/virtual/socialsecurity.aspx 2. http://www.fred08.com/Virtual/GovernmentSpending.aspx Also, well-known Reagan Conservative newspaper, HUMAN EVENTS, has endorsed Fred Thompson for President: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=24398. I guess it is true that Fred Thompson is the most consistent conservative in the race. Fred Thompson’s Reagan Conservative spending and entitlement policies:
1. http://www.fred08.com/virtual/socialsecurity.aspx
2. http://www.fred08.com/Virtual/GovernmentSpending.aspx

Also, well-known Reagan Conservative newspaper, HUMAN EVENTS, has endorsed Fred Thompson for President: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=24398. I guess it is true that Fred Thompson is the most consistent conservative in the race.

]]> By: Mister Guy http://www.freedomtalks.org/2008/01/10/spending-its-for-the-children/#comment-73845 Mister Guy Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:54:45 +0000 http://www.freedomtalks.org/2008/01/10/spending-its-for-the-children/#comment-73845 Why do you see a future of "rising taxes"? I thought you guys were opposed to that and that your record of (irresponsibly IMO) cutting taxes for mostly the rich was going to work everything out in the end? I also thought that you were opposed to actually spending money to rebuild our nation's infrastructure...why complain then that it's obviously deteriorating now? Actual fixes for Social Security (raising the retirement age as people naturally live longer and longer, raising the cap of SS taxes for rich people that can obviously afford it, etc.) are not that hard to do...they are just, unfortunately, politically hard to implement. Medicare and Medicaid fixes will require overhauls of the way that we cover and pay for health care in this country. These overhauls (a single payer system with optional private insurance for the rich that want to cover themselves more fully maybe) will actually *save* money and cover everyone. The end of the world will not be coming anytime soon, and these highly sucessful social programs will be there intact in the future if the American people really want them to be. I love how they exclude the amount of money that we've been wasting "servicing" the gigantic debt that this country has accumulated over the last 30 years (mostly under policies of the GOP). We had a chance after Clinton balanced the federal budget in the 90s to deal with this issue and actually reduce America's debt, but the GOP screwed that chance up big-time. Advocating for stronger "market solutions" to this country's health care crisis is like barbers in the Middle Ages recommending more intense and longer bleeding session with their sick and dying clients. It doesn't work. Putting the blame for the health care crisis on regular people...telling them that they "consume too much" health care now is just blaming the patient for being sick. It's un-American... Why do you see a future of “rising taxes”? I thought you guys were opposed to that and that your record of (irresponsibly IMO) cutting taxes for mostly the rich was going to work everything out in the end? I also thought that you were opposed to actually spending money to rebuild our nation’s infrastructure…why complain then that it’s obviously deteriorating now?

Actual fixes for Social Security (raising the retirement age as people naturally live longer and longer, raising the cap of SS taxes for rich people that can obviously afford it, etc.) are not that hard to do…they are just, unfortunately, politically hard to implement. Medicare and Medicaid fixes will require overhauls of the way that we cover and pay for health care in this country. These overhauls (a single payer system with optional private insurance for the rich that want to cover themselves more fully maybe) will actually *save* money and cover everyone. The end of the world will not be coming anytime soon, and these highly sucessful social programs will be there intact in the future if the American people really want them to be.

I love how they exclude the amount of money that we’ve been wasting “servicing” the gigantic debt that this country has accumulated over the last 30 years (mostly under policies of the GOP). We had a chance after Clinton balanced the federal budget in the 90s to deal with this issue and actually reduce America’s debt, but the GOP screwed that chance up big-time.

Advocating for stronger “market solutions” to this country’s health care crisis is like barbers in the Middle Ages recommending more intense and longer bleeding session with their sick and dying clients. It doesn’t work. Putting the blame for the health care crisis on regular people…telling them that they “consume too much” health care now is just blaming the patient for being sick. It’s un-American…

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