Potential candidates in 2020

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I don't favor dicking over the poor on healthcare. I favor fixing the problem. Other countries have better healthcare because they don't charge $200 for a bandaid or $700 just to be admired to the emergency room. That's before they do anything. Hell, it's $100,000+ for a few pills for cancer that may not cure you. Open your eyes. I'm all for better, but I have a wider focus than to pay higher taxes to a screwed up system. Fix the root cause of the issue before you just fork over the money.

What you need is socialised healthcare like the rest of the developed world, free at point of use and payed for by taxation. It works and doesn't penalise the ones most in need. Unfortunately for you the republicans will veto anything that helps people who need it so the rich can keep the maximum amount of money to themselves.

You're not the first person to call me a racist or a bigot because I want the borders locked down or just because you heard that I support trump.

There is a reason for that.

Narrow minded people always think that before they see my wife who's mother is black and father is from Mexico. My father in law thinks they should come in legally too. We have a legal system to control population, job availability, and the economy too. Big picture homey. There is one.  Look at it. Look for the facts before you start making false accusations too.

So your playing the "some of my friends are black" card. The oldest play in the racists handbook.

I own my own company and I can assure you that today's unions in the US are the issue. Japan, Netherlands, England, etc. all have a HUGE union following. The difference is that they work with the company and not against the company. You won't find someone making $38 an hour to hand out work gloves and stare at the wall all day. That would never fly over seas. They also wouldn't go on strike when someone calls in sick every Monday and Friday for theee months straight. We have a huge union plant about a mile from my shop. I only have 60 employees, but I pay the hourly guys about $4.00 more per hour, offer far better insurance, and I've never had a lay off. 100 years ago, unions were definitely needed. No question about it, but the unions today are sponges that hurt American companies and workers in the long run. If they worked as they do in Japan and Europe, I would be 100% for them. They help the workers and they help the companies do better which helps the workers that much more. Travel a little bit. You'll learn a bit more.

Hello from a brit here. The power of our unions was crushed when the tories purposely destroyed our industrial base to get rid of them, there were running battles in the streets...but your an American and the world stops at the oceans for most of you it was in the eighties. We were moved from an industrial to a service based society and it fucked us up.
You have strong unions, congratulations, that means you still have industries. We don't.

As above; College shouldn't be free until they fix the problems. $800 per credit hour and $300+ for a text book. Sometimes more than one text book, each at $300+. And then they'll change one page in the book and sell more as a "revision #32". Student loans are so high? Fix the root cause. That black Mexican woman I'm such a bigot for marrying paid off her psychology loans. I know that they suck, but don't jack up taxes and pay the schools far more than they are worth. Again, big picture.

Spend a little less on the military and the US could school the whole world and still have money to spare. You spend money in stupid places.

Global warming; I don't have a definitive argument for outside of my own view. Al Gore has a home in Tennessee that at least did have one of the highest electric usages for the state and doesn't have a single solar panel, wind mill, nothing. But he does own a shit ton of stocks and partial ownerships to several companies in the "green" industry. As far as I'm concerned, it's all a money making scheme. We're far cleaner than we were 100 or 50 years ago. I'm just not buying it. For each scientist saying it's real, there's others that say it's either a natural earth cycle or just not real.

Wow you are so wrong 97% of scientists working on climate agree that man made climate change is real and significantly dangerous to human life 97% not the 50/50 ratio you seem to have imagined.

And really... if it was a real issue that was going to kill us governments would be forcing people to do absolutely whatever it took to reverse it. No recommendations. It would be 100% requirements. No questions asked. Until someone can really prove it to me, I rank it right up there with the bible.

Yes it should be a 100% requirement,the world agrees and your fucking president just pulled out because he seems to want to kill the world.

And liberals are looked down on for having such narrow views on issues and move right away to personal attacks rather than looking at at least a few facts.

You seem to have confused the term liberal with "narrow minded blow hard idiot"