wow i dont even know where to start on your post. socialized health care isn't a new idea, it's been tried in different parts of the world and failed miserably. most notably in Canada where the government tells you when and where you can go for treatment, waiting lists for procedures get long and in the long run it discourages people from wanting to become doctors. why would you invest a ton of money into your future just to have to work for the government at whatever wage they decide is right for you? lots of people in Canada come to US to buy policies from American insurance companies because it's a better system. TRUE that health care costs are rising, and some people think government takeover is the answer there? wrong. there is never only one way to do something and there are most certainly other options. so tell me how you can takeover health care...on top of the AUTO INDUSTRY, STUDENT LOANS, BANKING and MORTGAGE Associations and not have your taxes raised as promised by Obama? How many more examples do you people need? Please tell me where the money is going to come from to completely overhaul the health care industry for over 300 MILLION people, when it doesn't work properly for the what 15 million? people that live just to our north.
And the tea-party is filled with racist medicare-fueled douchebags, and its indisputable? please enlighten me. the tea party movement is pretty basic, they believe in things like limited federal government (constitution), fiscal responsibility, protecting our nations border (it doesn't..especially the borders of Texas and Arizona), Immigration ha what a joke.
Onto derbski or something, many of those things you listed ARE in fact duties that the federal government is or should be obligated to do, but those things have little to do with the socialist agenda that Obama and his cronies (OMFG I just called the administration Cronies). Auto-Industry, Banking and Mortgages, and thats just to start. They're even going to try taking over insurance, their answer to everything seems to be to let the government run it and it will get better. This is the same administration that thought giving the president the power to shut down the internet at his discretion was a good idea. The government taxes heavily, especially in NY where state taxes are already through the roof before federal income tax. Did anyone know that federal income tax has only been around for about 100 years since Woodrow Wilson, who was a socialist, implemented. Back then the degree of economic and political literacy was very low so it was easier to get thing done. Liberals always think that FDR got us out of the depression, really it was the war that got out of the depression, FDR greatly expanded the role and size of federal government and to this day the left keeps trying to increase the size of government which goes against our Constitution.
Maybe it's because I came from a family that had to work hard for our wealth and think it's unfair to take money from people like us to the kind of people that have 4 kids because they can get 600$ a month or something per kid and not have to get a job. My one roommate that I didnt know before moving into this place used to go to Cornell, if he can afford to go to Cornell..he doesn't need welfare money, which for some reason he gets.
I know I missed commenting on some people's posts but I'll be back. When the government wants to give you something with one hand, they're almost always taking something away with the other.