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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly
The U.S., like all too many nations, has problems that needs to be fixed at home. There should be no homeless in the greatest republic. Our education system should be the envy of the world, health care should be available to all and at reasonable prices. Our factories should be producing products sold around the world.
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I pretty much agree with everything you said in your post. But I have to comment on the quoted portion above. As long as the US treats healthcare as a for-profit enterprise, it will never be affordable. And it will eventually cause the entire economy to implode. As for US factories, what factories? Most of them are now in other countries. As long as there are no laws barring US companies from relocating factories to where labor is cheaper, the problem will only continue to worsen, and more and more Americans will lose their jobs. And not just factories, but services too. My last job as a programmer was outsourced to India back in '02.