Surely most of the rest of the world felt like me at the time, the two worst possible presidential contenders that could have been found. I do feel for the Republicans, it would have been better long-term if Hillary had won, served one calamitous term and let the Republicans back into the White House for the next 3-4 terms at least as a backlash.
The student loan forgiveness and free college plan would never pass as a bill and Warren knows it. Its just the progressive mantra du jour that has to be mentioned in every debate. However her plan to get rid of health insurance or significantly marginalize it is a sound plan. This type of broken health care system does not exist in any other country and it needs overhauling. Self employed are getting screwed, paying more than $20k a year in premiums for high deductible plans that basically don't cover anything when you go see a doctor. And the corporate employees are no better off - they have a relatively smaller premium deducted from their paychecks but they pay another way - decreased wages and no pay raises. This is why corporate incomes in the USA are flat and decreasing in real terms - because the health insurance companies are sucking billions out of the economy every year. And old man Biden thinks everything is just fine with healthcare in its present form and that it is 'malarkey' to say otherwise.
Yes, US healthcare provision is a sad mess. But please don't hand over the country to Fidel Castro's grand-daughter just to get that put right.
%% It may happen; but NOW we have the UKRAINE chickens coming home to roost against Senator Joe ''low IQ'' Biden.,
This i found this response of yours to ETJ's post interesting. You began with a nice example of how superficial observations, especially using arguments based on ratios such as percent, can lead one astray; then you went on to violate the good lesson you just taught. Your examples chosen to illustrate how socialism wrecks capitalism* contain within them the same flaw of superficiality you nicely exposed in your previous argument. I'm left wondering if you didn't accidentally make a case for how capitalism can lead to despotism, or perhaps at least to desperate people. But that too doesn't hold up to closer inspection. There must be way more going on here then your superficial conclusion would suggest. Were you inadvertently giving us a clue to the poverty of your reasoning when you suggested the "...Democratic Party [is] headed up by a cohort of radical leftist progressives living in a fantasy world in which a man can become a woman simply by saying he's female." _________________________ *All modern capitalist countries have mixed economies with both socialist and capitalist features. The U.S. is unquestionably the most capitalist, and also perhaps the most illogical, of all. Would looking around us allow the conclusion that socialism changes capitalism for the better? I don't know the answer to that question, but it is one we ought now, in this present election cycle, to be asking.