Political Equinox

This is a response to “The Obama Agenda” by Paul Krugman.

Mr. Krugman:

I must respectfully disagree with you. I am not calling on Obama to be “a do-nothing president.” I am calling on him to maintain a left-center tone throughout his presidency. The voters have given him a mandate not on healthcare, not on the economy, not on the war, but on his ability to unify, to lead, to solve the problems our nation faces. As much as conservatives like to claim, Obama did not run on a socialist ideology. I’m sick of hearing that, Barack Obama is not a socialist. He ran left (not socialist left) at the start, then centered a lot. If you aren’t convinced use archive.org …

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Yes, you read that right. America already has a system in which we pay for the healthcare of others that is deeply embedded into our economic system. We pay for it every single day without even realizing that we are covering the healthcare costs of our fellow Americans.

No, I am not talking about Medicare, Medicaid, or any other government sponsored healthcare plans. The universal healthcare I am talking about is employer-sponsored healthcare plans.

Let’s take a trip back to our high school economics class and take a look at how businesses price their products. All companies hope to earn money through the sale of their product or service, so they deduct expenses from the cost of the product and then you …

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