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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 80888" data-attributes="member: 99"><p><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: scent of cedar</div><div class="ubbcode-body"></p><p>In fact, "the government should do something" is the worst answer there could ever be.</p><p></p><p> </div></div></p><p></p><p>I don't know that that's true, but not in the way that some people may think I mean. The government <em>could</em> help by limiting the amount of profits insurance companies and health care providers can make, and the amount of money they can charge for goods and services. They do it with milk, for crying out loud, and no one ever complained about socialized milk!</p><p></p><p>Just like the government could help stop our corrupt "do nothing" government by limiting the amount of money that a candidate can spend on campaigning (leveling the playing field) and moving the date that campaigning can start up to four months (or something that's not two years) before the election. Then those idiots could actually be <em>doing something</em> in Congress and the senate instead of gallivanting all over the place 2/3's of the time trying to get elected.</p><p></p><p>Let's not forget, our government was designed to be <strong>"of the people, by the people, and for the people.</strong> <em>We</em> are the government, people! So long as we want to sit around and gripe and think that means something, we deserve just what we get - nothing. Because nothing is what we are doing about it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 80888, member: 99"] <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: scent of cedar</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> In fact, "the government should do something" is the worst answer there could ever be. </div></div> I don't know that that's true, but not in the way that some people may think I mean. The government [i]could[/i] help by limiting the amount of profits insurance companies and health care providers can make, and the amount of money they can charge for goods and services. They do it with milk, for crying out loud, and no one ever complained about socialized milk! Just like the government could help stop our corrupt "do nothing" government by limiting the amount of money that a candidate can spend on campaigning (leveling the playing field) and moving the date that campaigning can start up to four months (or something that's not two years) before the election. Then those idiots could actually be [i]doing something[/i] in Congress and the senate instead of gallivanting all over the place 2/3's of the time trying to get elected. Let's not forget, our government was designed to be [b]"of the people, by the people, and for the people.[/b] [i]We[/i] are the government, people! So long as we want to sit around and gripe and think that means something, we deserve just what we get - nothing. Because nothing is what we are doing about it. [/QUOTE]
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