Quote:I doubt it, but I try to be generous. ^_^
I don't think there is anything inherently inborn to Americans that they would be incapable ofproviding these services. If you want to end curruption and graft, you can do it. Just vote compotent people into office. Or are you claiming that the American people are so innately stupid and childish that they can't be trusted?
Acquiring a competent government starting from the current system is, unfortunately, likely to be a significant challenge - logistically if no other way. Principle problems are separating the genuinely honest (or at least effective) candidates from the ones just making the right mouth-noises and, even more, the fact that much or most voting of America are sufficiently ignorant or misguided that no, I wouldn't trust them if I had a choice. I'll hasten to add that I'm also of the opinion that they exist in that state due to the fact that they simply don't have access to - or, often, have been actively conditioned to reject - sufficiently accurate information to make reasonable choices.
And of course, control of most of the potential ways to correct that - of all of the best ones - rests squarely in the hands of individuals with a vested interest in keeping in that way.
Part and parcel of the way the country was originally intended to work, really.
*shrug* It won't last, of course. It can't. But IMHO, that won't happen for another generation or so, when awareness on the internet about these problems and where to go to find out about them expands enough to become a significant presence to kids as they're growing up, before the conditioning can take.
Really, though, about health care? Compared to the productivity of any first-world country, its costs are trivial. Grow the fuck up, people. You're squalling about not getting a sucker while people are dying, letting them drown because it's too much bother to figure out where to find a fucking rope.
Ja, -n
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