zannej
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I admit that credit cards are convenient for paying instead of carrying around cash, but my family uses them more like debit cards. They always get paid off every month so it doesn't get carried over with interest charges and we get rewards points that we use to buy stuff.
But I know what you mean.. People are learning from early on to spend more than they have. It starts with colleges where the banks are in bed with the universities to get people in debt up to their eyeballs.
I also want everyone to be able to have excellent healthcare, I just am not sure on what is the best way to go about making that happen. I do know that unilaterally dismissing an entire side (left or right) as "nonsense" and not being willing to have a dialog with an open mind is part of the problem.
Its more productive to address the actual issues rather than the people behind the ideas.
If we stop saying "these people are selfish" or "these people are lazy" and say "What can we do to make sure that people are not getting screwed over?" then we can at least have a start.
I will say that I'm in the middle. There are some things on which I lean to the left and others where I lean to the right. On some issues I'm not sure where I stand because its not all clearcut black and white. There are gray areas that need to be taken into consideration. I know that it sucks not being able to afford medical treatment. I know that it sucks having to pay insane %s of taxes. So, where is the middle ground? How do we help people without hurting others?
Meanwhile, a big problem is that we have politicians making decisions on things that don't really affect them very much and therefore, they don't care as much about what happens to people. They are caught up in the Us vs Them crap that is pretty much crippling the country. It's like a scene from "Horse Feathers"
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29E6GbYdB1c[/ame]
But I know what you mean.. People are learning from early on to spend more than they have. It starts with colleges where the banks are in bed with the universities to get people in debt up to their eyeballs.
I also want everyone to be able to have excellent healthcare, I just am not sure on what is the best way to go about making that happen. I do know that unilaterally dismissing an entire side (left or right) as "nonsense" and not being willing to have a dialog with an open mind is part of the problem.
Its more productive to address the actual issues rather than the people behind the ideas.
If we stop saying "these people are selfish" or "these people are lazy" and say "What can we do to make sure that people are not getting screwed over?" then we can at least have a start.
I will say that I'm in the middle. There are some things on which I lean to the left and others where I lean to the right. On some issues I'm not sure where I stand because its not all clearcut black and white. There are gray areas that need to be taken into consideration. I know that it sucks not being able to afford medical treatment. I know that it sucks having to pay insane %s of taxes. So, where is the middle ground? How do we help people without hurting others?
Meanwhile, a big problem is that we have politicians making decisions on things that don't really affect them very much and therefore, they don't care as much about what happens to people. They are caught up in the Us vs Them crap that is pretty much crippling the country. It's like a scene from "Horse Feathers"
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29E6GbYdB1c[/ame]