Who you want as president

[justafan]

Originally posted by PsychoMan@Oct 14 2004, 08:47 PM
I want Nader to be president, but I'm Canadian, so I don't have a say... unless I can land a job at Diebold, and then I can engineer any outcome I want! hnoes:

As for universal health care, it mostly works in Canada. The biggest problem we have to deal with right now is that it takes forever to get anything done.

<ranting anecdote begins>
For example, my father was not feeling so well, so his doctor booked him for an angiogram. Only problem was that the waiting list was over 8 months. During that time he basically had to take time off work and try not to move around to much in case he triggered a heart attack. When he finally got the angiogram, the doctor said my dad had the worst blocked arteries he had ever seen, and was amazed he had survived for eight months.

At least then the doctor booked him for an emergency quintuple bypass the next day, and my dad is still doing fine a couple of years later.
</ranting anecdote ends>

A good friend of mine was basically confined to his bed for a year while he waited for back surgery...

Anyway, the major issue in Paul Martin's campaign a few months ago was to "reduce wait times". Nobody knows what he means by this, or how he's going to do it, or where the money is coming from, but at least it is a major focus of our government right now.

I personally think public health care is worth the inevitable inefficiencies. No citizen should have to go without proper health care, and I'm perfectly willing to foot the bill through taxation if I'm lucky enough to be making money.

thanks man, I am glad to hear a Canadians perspective on the issue. I figured that progress in the feild of medicine(including prompt service) might suffer with full service health care for all... and there are drawbacks, as you have pointed out, but your comments on the issue say how I feel....... it is so humane for everyone, working and not... and it has short-comings, so the issue is hard to decide on what is better.

But I feel, for whatever reason, that humanity and humaneness should prevail... at whatever cost(maybe I am wrong), but that is what I think until another(better) idea enters my head.

I like nader, but the green party kinda replaced him with Cobb and I really like his perspectives, so I am going in that direction. But I would also like Nader more than Bush or Kerry... *fingers triple crossed*

[eternals layre]

bush.
im not rich but i got a tax cut, i like my marriage tax cut also. i like my money to be mine not everyones. and if kerry raises 300,000 or above my boss gets taxed that will go back to me. i will make less in the long run.
raising mim wage hurts everything. the dolar goes down. inflation is much eaiser. less jobs. buisness cant afford to pay that many people at that price. it causes the price of products to increase.

kerry has no backbone. religious hipocrit, quoted james in his last debate "faith without works is dead" believes abortion is wrong and does nothing about it .... dead. and then takes communion.
as i look into my newborns eyes i know his choice is life.
we do not need goverment healthcare. we need less redtape and lawers out of it would drop the price by 30% or more. If goverment healthcare came about private buisness would drop theirs. why do they need it when the goverment can do it? long lines waiting on anything to get done. ask anyone with goverment healthcare,

some of my family are in bagdad right now and my boss. one is a special agent my boss works with the admin staff of iraq. they fear kerry worse than clinton. ill agree with them.

im sure theres more

[syxxpm]

im voting for bushwick bill.....where everyday is halloween and drinking everclear means you lose an eye...... :lolbonk:

[Chief]

im voting for me.....

my political agenda...free liquor and everybody gets laid...