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Originally Posted by Danzig
increasing the deficit isn't the answer-why increase one of the things that is causing our problems?? adding healthcare that we can ill afford right now isn't either. proper actions by the govt would be helpful-this mess we've witnessed since january is far from that.
fdr removed the gold standard- i didn't know you were that old!!  |
Spending is, unfortunately, the answer to a recession or a depression. Don't forget the last time - people were essentially being paid to dig a hole, fill it up, dig another hole. If the government hadn't done anything (and this has been coming for some time, remember the previous administration did have a "hands off" policy pretty much for the economy, thus it worsened ... ), double the jobless numbers (Detroit automaker disaster, plus all the smaller manufacturing industries associated with that, that make parts) and add many of them in as homeless or starving. Ohio would probably be under marshall law right now. It would be very, very ugly.
Adding healthcare for the uninsured (40 million people max out of 300 million) - that's not a very expensive thing. Seriously - a trillion over 10 years, less than 1% of our budget.
I am really, really old
But what I was talking about was Nixon and gold. I vaguely remember the horror when Lyndon Johnson implemented Medicare. And healthcare - I wish Bush had done it. That was something he had talked about. He got distracted by wars.