[Rhodes22-list] Politics: National Debt, National Health Policy

[Robert Skinner]

Slim wrote:
> ...  It looks to me like we're already "really in trouble."
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I'm with Slim on this one.  

Job # 1 is to develop a plan to deal with our (to my way of 
thinking) out-of-control national debt.

Job # 2 is to put together a workable plan to end the Iraq 
mess gracefully.

Those are the easy ones.

With this in hand, having identified some of our major cash 
flow parameters, we need to tackle the more difficult task 
of determining how much public money we (as a nation) will 
invest in an individual person's health before we let them 
die.

This issue will occupy us as a forground/background coda 
for the next century, if our grand democratic experiment 
lives that long.

And the life of our nation is more threatened by what I'll 
call "Rummy's Thesis" than by outside powers.  We are more
likely to be destroyed by termite-like internal decay as 
our populace votes itself ever-increasing goodies.

Pax vobiscum,
/Robert Skinner