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That’s where you’re wrong, I didn’t start this discussion, I simply answered a question regarding to why the majority of the world likes Obama and dislikes Bush. I didn’t mean for this discussion to get deep into politics, but of course, we have to defend our views when they are challenged. I didn’t call you a troll for no good reason, please see the definition for a troll and read back your comments and realize that you are acting like one. You generalize too much, attack using foul language for no good reason, and if you were insulted by me saying that you should learn to write to then reply to me it’s because you should. If you don’t know Portuguese and want to use it, learn it first because your first comment made no sense what so ever. You may have thought that it made you look/sound smarter to appear to know a different language… it doesn’t. From what you wrote, you might have been better off using something like google translate. Besides, this is a blog that is intended to an English speaking audience, so I don’t see what the point is in starting a conversation in another language.

To summarize, the fact of the matter is that people don’t like Bush and do like Obama. If you don’t like this concept, tough luck, it is what it is. You don’t have to generalize thinking the world likes Obama because he is black (that’s the only thing I got from your first comment), this is a very ignorant thing to say. it has more to do with his ideas and nothing to do with his race. I don’t care about your health care system, do what is best for you, it is your country, it doesn’t affect me. Our main concern is the economy and foreign policy. Please note that I never said I myself like Obama, he’s too weak to put in place the ideas he has, but it doesn’t change the fact that I much prefer him over Bush.

Now, I am quite sure that you probably don’t like anything I’ve written here, and perhaps your face is read as a tomato and would love to start writing a reply with a bunch of foul language and what not. I just can’t continue replying to you if you do so. We can all agree and disagree about issues without the need to be childish. So, if you do in fact reply to me and I don’t reply back, it is because you are once acting like a troll. Peace out…

People in general hated Bush and love Obama. They don’t know why. After the election I remember talking to tons of people who were “Ya Bush is gone, they finally elected a real president” I would ask them why they were happy, and all they could come up with was “Bush started those wars and probably had something to do with those towers falling”. Point is most people in the general public are ignorant or don’t have the time to learn the whole story behind foreign countries. They just remember seeing that stupid bumbling cowboy on the news every time something bad was happening.

You were right though, most people not in America think you guys are assholes, in general. People remember the bad stuff and forget the good. Just sayin’

I have to disagree. I myself do in fact look down not only on Bush’s policies, but the man as well. after 9/11 I was 100% in favor of the US to going into Afghanistan, but bear in mind that I viewed that as “fairplay” after what happened to you guys. This however, does not give Bush a free ticket to invade whoever he wants, and when he invaded Iraq, that’s where most people started having their hatred towards his administration. This is not just mere unreasonable hatred, it is not irrational, we have hatred towards him because he made a country that was intact into a war zone that disrupted the lives of hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands have lost their lives and hundreds of thousands more were misplaced and homeless. People say Saddam was evil, and that is good enough reason to do what was done. I respectfully disagree with this argument. There are many countries today in the hands of "evil" leaders, this does not give anyone the right to invade a country if that country is not a threat to others.

I gotta go, it was good debating this with you even though we don’t see eye to eye in many of these issues and there were some cheap shots. But I just want to make it clear though; I do look down on President Bush, with much hatred, but not on the nation for which he served.

And I pay for private health insurance as well.
Entitlement programs, like your health care system, are funded by taxpayers. It’s not free. Your government just mandates how you will receive healthcare using your own money.

True, but then it’s not really public any more is it? And since you would have no private insurance your expenses would be entirely out of pocket. All i was saying is you must have rationing in a public system, not arguing against it.

And since you seem to advocate wholeheartedly for public health care, I’ll point out that there are other drawbacks beyond just rationing such as lower quality of service (yes, it’s true) and limited freedom of choice.

My aunt just died of cancer a couple weeks ago. It was fast because she didn’t know, and never went for check ups. Well they said there was treatment that was really expensive, they decided it wasn’t worth it to give it to her. She could however pay for it herself. It wasn’t going to make a big enough difference, so she decided not to pay.

but there is M. At some point, at some level there are always limits. it may be the case that in Canada that limit is very large, which would merely mean that you have spent a great deal in taxes on healthcare. As I said, healthcare is a scarce resource it is not simply unlimited.

I don’t mean that each person has a dollar limit on him, but there are limits to the amount and kinds of treatments you can recieve.