Honestly, the most confusing thing right now is Obamacare. It's truly hard to tell if it's a bad thing, or a good thing. Obviously like anything the government puts forward there will be negative and positive light being shined on different aspects of it. The crucial part is trying to find out what is actually important, and what will affect the public as a whole. Basically, the government is going to force everyone to have healthcare. Now, at first yes, it sounds like a good idea. Even the unemployed get healthcare, so no more visits to the minor emergency room for chronic diseases , and no more of the government's money randomly going to people's medical bills to random hospitals. (Obviously it's more complex than that, but you get the idea). But the crappy part about this is every business will have to start supplying healthcare for their employees. And what about those smaller, local business who cannot afford that. Well, they either go out of business or raise the price of their products, which will also lead them to going out of business. This is another reason that if i were going to vote I would have voted Mitt Romney in last year's election. He cared and had ideas that would support small businesses, unlike Obama, who claims that the reason small business are successful is because of the government. (Hahaha) Sorry, I just come from a family that has many owners of small business who never took a dime from the government, and are now millionaires. They worked their butts off and it payed off. And no, not everyone has the same success with opening business but it's unfair to say that the more wealthy (especially small business owners) should have their taxes raised because the government is the only reason they made it. (I'm sorry for this tangent, but it relates to why I dislike how Obama wants to handle things.)
Others will argue that places like Canada, and France are running just fine on Socialist Economy. And yes, most would tell me I'm incorrect for labeling us as socialists, which we aren't completely. (but I don't about 50 years from now...) Either way, the reason that socialized health care works in countries like Canada and France is because they established their health care among that idea. Bringing in Obama care is equivalent to Canada taking away from the unemployed or those on low income. It doesn't sound right does it? How is that any different than changing our system of healthcare. And yeah, if you already have healthcare, you can keep it. Which I guess is good, but is also the reason democrats are calling republicans selfish. Which it does sound selfish because, if we don't have to change, why can the government just go ahead and give health care to those who are struggling? Well it all comes back to the question should the government have control over health care? Which honestly, I don't have the answer to. But hopefully someone holds the correct answer.
Oh by the way the government is shutting down, or it did shut down. Meaning until one party decides to cave in, the government workers are kinda screwed. Which is really dumb and lame and ugh. Sometimes I wish it didn't have to work like that, but I guess you know what you are going into when you decide to work for the government.
Honestly, I do sort of hope democrats are all "fine, we wont fund obamacare" but I don't see that happening seeing that the elephants have been all "let's just not do this whole obamacare thing" like forty times and the donkeys are all "um, no, we are going to so..."every time. Which is funny because you think that the elephants could just stomp on the donkeys, metaphorically of course.
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