Posted by Alan on 8/22/2009, 10:36 pm, in reply to "Re: How sad if much needed health care reform doesn't pass because of this"
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: The BIGGEST threat? I find that suggestion
: laughable.
: How about the astronomical debt we're
: carrying?
Because of the Reagan/Bush tax cuts and the Iraq war. When Reagan took office, the national debt was under $1 Trillion. Now it's over $10 Trillion. All but 8 of those years, Reagan or Bush was in office and in 3 of those years the national debt decreased.
: How about the fact that most PhDs in science
: and engineering in this country are awarded to
: foreigners rather than Americans?
Again outsourcing is a big problem because Americans are much more expensive than those in India or China.
Incidentally if you want to talk about sounding like a broken record, most of your posts have the same theme as well. Maybe the names and the circumstances change, but it's still rather predictable so I hardly think I'm the only one who keeps repeating oneself.