"People vote for their special interest groups and for the people who promise them what they want."

NO! You're kidding. ;-) Yeah, of course they do. The sad thing, though, is that election promises are very rarely fulfilled, so the people are voting for a bunch of false propaganda, hopes and dreams, and it ain't gonna happen after their new "messiah" gets elected.

By the way, pdq, free, universal, and equal health care for all IS
a birthright! In any decent society, that is. That's why we have it in Canada and all over western Europe too, and in Japan as well. By "free", I mean that everyone pays for it equally out of their taxes...they all share the expense...thus spending what they can all easily afford for health insurance...and no one gets caught in an impossible financial situation when illness or accident puts them in the hospital. That IS a national birthright. To not have it established that way in a society is insane.

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Jack, we appear once again to disagree on some minor semantic point or another. I don't mind. It doesn't cause me to lose any sleep and I hope it won't cause you to lose any either.

The lawn is now looking great.