Re: Fed on brink of fifth(?) round of quantitative easing
⭐ Merited by o_e_l_e_o (4)
Which is my point exactly. $1.7 billion is nothing. We spend $800 billion a year just on our military.
maybe if the army stopped paying for peoples' college educations (and suvs and houses), they could make a small dent in this huge military spending budget. so i guess these soldiers are worse than illegal immigrants in that respect, they are costing us more than them!Quote
So the average spending on healthcare in developed nations by their government is around $6,000 per person. For us, it's almost $13,000.
$13,000 for a band-aid you mean?Quote
But God forbid we actually want to get better care for less money by cutting out all the predatory insurance companies and middlemen! That would be sOcIaLiSm!
in a civilized society everyone should be entitled to free healthcare but we're far from that.Quote
No, far better to hand huge amounts of money completely unnecessarily directly in to the pockets of insurance company CEOs and the like. They are the ones buying out our politicians after all. And why not? The government can always just print more! Brrrrr!
imagine if bitcoin was like that. satoshi could just turn on the printer and mint more bitcoin whenever he wanted. 
who would agree to that?