>>>>I do support nationalized medical care and I do support choice. However, when you look at all of his actions and policies together, there is a definite move towards socialism and government control over the public. Cap and trade is the most concerning.
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>>>>Watching your posts, I wondr if it would be more accurate if you said that you support heath care reform rather than nationalized medicine. I agree that we need heath care reform, but if we give it to the governement, it will just get worse.
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>>>But nationalized medicine is not what is being discussed. What is being discussed is the government becoming a provider along with others in at attempt to bring costs down. And finally doing something about the 40-50 million Americans with no medical insurance at all.
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>>Well, you are carrying on a small discussion within a larger one then. My discussion has been about the size of the DEFICIT and this country's reliance on foreign money to sustain itself. In May 2009, the US owed China $772 billion. In total, lenders from Japan and China held 47% of the foreign-owned debt.
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>>FWIW, the latest Charlie Rose interview with Pete Peterson is now available online:
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>>http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10443
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>> The Chinese are believed to keep about 70 percent of their $2 trillion foreign assets in dollars.
>>Chinese central bank in March floated the idea of creating a reserve currency alternative to the U.S. dollar based on the International Monetary Fund's special drawing rights—a basket of currencies
>>http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/judgments/2009/06/03/china-s-debt-restlessness
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>I didn't mean discussed in this thread, I meant discussed by the Obama administration. IAC I was replying to someone else and was not referencing things you posted earlier.

Oh, I totally misunderstood your comment then.

However, on March 24, 2009 Obama promised to cut the deficit in half in five years.

We'll have to wait five years to see. But, did he mean the deficit as of March 24, 2009 or the deficit amount when he took office ? :o) That's an easy one to guess...