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What makes you think american lives are so much more important than other lives?

so for you national debt > abortion

that surprises me on your posts I've read.

lol you think the debt is bad under Trump watch out if one of the dems win.

Not inherently, no. Is it a socialist policy to nationalize the police, military, fire fighters, prisons etc. All of these things are run by the government because it is in the national interest that the government do so. Nobody bats an eye. 

As for the FDA taking a long time... I don't know as much about how the FDA works as I do about the patent office but I do know about the scientific method and my gut says that "10 years to clear a new drug" is probably not because the FDA is incompetent and more likely because that long of a time period is actually required for trials to be carried out properly.

Governmental control over the economy is one of the few cases where there actually is a slippery slope.

I don't claim to have an answer for how to fix the current healthcare system. I really truly don't and I doubt most people on this site that claim to do either. It is a lot more complicated that many are willing to admit. However, I do have enough experience with it to recognize that it is in need of fixing.

most of the costs of healthcare come from hospitals, not drug prices, and general medical providers. would you be willing to use price fixing in the general medical provider setting, in the array of medical services provided by the industry? if not, how would you control costs? 

can you put on makeup and read a prepared speech with passion?

Fun side note, most R&D is actually paid for with government money. They do most of the ground work research. Drug companies then pick it up, play with the formula a little and patent it. They then slap a massive mark up on it and make absurd amounts of money on something they didn't actually do most of the work developing. 

When you take into account that the majority of drug research is government funded and the fact that they spend like 2-3 times more on marketing than on research, it becomes clear this isn't true. If they stopped doing research they would run out of products to sell. Then they would cease to exist. 

Another statement born of ignorance.

Is Jacinda Ardern, no question.

I think manipulating someone in an effort to prevent what should be freely their right is wrong.

Untrue. You are guessing at his motivation. You do not, and cannot know it. And no motivation can be a crime, just an action. And Ukraine got the funds without doing anything.

It's an accurate and pertinent way of describing the early stages of pregnancy such as the zygote however

Why not? Left uses emotion all the time. Kids in cages lul.

You won't get a 2/3 consensus to draw the line at when a fetus gets rights. But you WOULD get a 2/3 consensus for a constitutional amendment prohibiting statewide bans on abortions.

Flat Tax. Eliminate crony tax exemptions.

That;s a bit like saying if I don't buy gas for my car I have more money. But then you can't get to work to make more money. In the short term that might have some positive side effects. But you are going to push the economy into recession and ultimately screw over everyone. 

Oh, so people should just come to america, live and in poverty and squalor because you don't think they should get to eat or have some place to live. America is a nation of immigrants. You are almost certainly descended from immigrants. I will never understand why some people continue to see immigrants as a threat or burden. 

I never denied it was a factor. But it is a small one. Immigrants don't decide what labor is worth, billionaires do. So blaming them while not targeting the oligarchs causing the problem is ridiculous. 

Pompeo isn't any better. Trump has filled his cabinet with people who are desperate to start some new wars. Trump himself has admitted he was minutes away from starting a war with Iran before calling it off last minute. 

America's tax rates have been falling for decades. There are definitely problems of money being misspent. But the rich have systematically undermined america's tax system. They have lobbied hard to avoid paying taxes and it has been working. That is also a very large factor in america's budget problems. 

 3/10

 I think abortion will eventually be banned because the rates for it are falling and contraception is more widely available.

Thoughts?

Roe V Wade must be overturned in order to force Congress to pass a pro-abortion bill.

Why? There is no reason to think a shrinking economy would somehow improve the standard of living.

again, this is a distraction. Unemployment remains low even with immigration. Wages remain low because big corporations do shitty things like destroying unions, keeping the minimum wage down, etc. 

Agreed. most "mainstream" republicans and democrats are virtually the same party. The want to make the rich richer and sell out the working class. But if you think trump isn't doing the same thing you are mistaken. The minute he got elected he filled the government positions with same corrupt people. He gave massive tax cuts to the rich driving up the deficit. They will then use that deficit to argue that spending on programs that help regular people need to be cut. 

If america stopped taking in immigrants it's economy would slow if not stop growing entirely. America is a nation of immigrants with a negative birth to death rate.

people can shop around all they want, if no company is willing to pay more, then it is entirely irrelevant. Immigration does have an effect on wages. But it is largely a red herring. Politicians and billionaires use it as a distraction because it is much easier to blame some foreigner than you don't know than to pin the blame where it really belongs. Billionaires and politicians have set up the economic system to massively reward the rich and suck the wealth out of the working class. 

sorry. He does use a lot of populist rhetoric. I can see why alot of people would like him over some asshole like the standard republican. But you can't deny he goes off on unhinged rants. There is an entire industry based around trying to interpret what he says because no one can really tell what he means .

guest workers essentially get deported at the end of their employment. So they don't get a raise, they usually don't get any additional compensation at all. you just get rid of them and bring in another temp to do it. This lets you keep wages low because your workers aren't going to be staying. They also have their visa held by their employer. So if they ask for something their employer can literally have them deported. This is very different from immigration because immigrants have permanency. If their employer is shit, they can leave and find another job or go on strike. 

I am not discounting the idea that perhaps bernie had the same opinion on both the guest worker program and immigration in general. It is possible. But TheRealNihilist never provided any evidence of that. I would be open to looking at additional evidence. 

lol it would make for some interesting television. But having watched trump's speeches, I have had enough of presidents who don't make any sense. 

lol and kids used to like to play with it I hear.

And I refuted his point. TheRealNihilist showed a clip of bernie talking about 1 specific policy (the guest worker program) and tried to argue that this showed his opinion about immigration in general. His argument was at best a biased misinterpretation of what bernie was saying. Bernie never talked about his opinion about immigration in the clip he provided. I asked him to show other evidence and he declined to do so. 

Agreed. They are trying to keep him out of the news as much as possible so when people think of him they remember him as he was, like when he kicked palin's ass in a debate in 2008. But Joe is not the man he was 11 years ago. He can barely string sentences together and if anyone questions him at all he snaps. 

Sanders has been consistent in his beliefs 

Biden doesn't actually do many events with voters anyway. And when he does he often tells them to vote for someone else or just calls them fat. I don't think being off the campaign trail is a bad thing for biden. The more he can hide how terrible he is, the better it will be for him.