CBS last night mentioned one item in *bushs mandate.

[rwork]

To shift the health care burden from small business, to their employees.He kept talking during the election about health care savings accounts. Now I understand and I hope everyone who voted for will soon find out.

[Meritaten1]

1. The privatization of social security is another really interesting item

If I heard the CBS account correctly, money will be taken from the social security trust fund, but the holders of "private accounts" won't get to control how it is invested, either.

Since Mr. Two Percent Mandate's administration has achieved such an astronomical deficit in such a very short time, and he plans even more tax cuts, his administration needs an excuse to dip into social security under "color of law"?

Just wondering.

[WyLoochka]

2. There is simply no way

that the vast majority of people could ever put enough away in private medical savings accounts to insure themselves adequately. No way. Not one Dem should go along with this scam. Be prepared to put enormous, direct, relentless pressure on the odious DINOS to get in line with US not THEM.

If any capitulate, recruit and financially support a real Dem to unseat them in the next election cycle.

We have to punish defectors ruthlessly.

[democratreformed]

3. Unfortunately, I understood that little scam from the moment I first

heard them talking about it.

[hedda_foil]

4. It's not just gonna be small businesses that won't need to insure workers.

The megacorps will get the most benefit, have no fear.

Here's the problem:
US Companies that employ US workers can't compete very well because the cost of medical insurance for their employees is astronomical. Everyone agrees this is true.

Here's the solution from the Dem and Repuke points of view:

Dem: government regulation and subsidies, rebates, tax credits to take some of the burden off employers. (Of course the real solution is a Canadian-style health care system because the "fat" that needs to be taken out of the system is the insurance/HMO industry.)

Repuke: Transfer the cost to employees with as little expense to business and government as possible.

Both methods solve the immediate problem as defined above. (National health care solves it long term, but that's another story.)

Getting rid of regulations and liability insurance costs do the same thing. They would, in fact, make the corporations more able to employ US workers for the time being and remain highly competive... but they will also destroy the health, safety, and general well-being of the citizens, and contribute to the "death" of the middle class. This kind of approach takes burdens off businesses at the expense of the life, liberty, and happiness of the vast majority of citizens. That's what makes it immoral and unAmerican, imho.

It's government sponsorship of the great race to the bottom.

[GiovanniC]

5. Be Watching For That Nationwide Sales Tax, Too