...

 LL>>> granting full benefits to same-sex couples, including
 LL>>> TRICARE, housing allowances, subsistence allowances, and
 LL>>> family separation allowances by Sept. 3.

BK>>Universal health care would make Tricare irrelevant.

 LL> As it should.  However, the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)
 LL> is NOT universal health care.  It is an improvement from
 LL> what we had before, but even when fully implemented far
 LL> from what Americans need and truly deserve.

 That is true. It's a first step, not a panacea.

 LL> What exactly do Americans need and truly deserve?  Improved
 LL> Medicare for All via single-payer health care.

 It could be done within the same general system we have now.
 Most other industrialized countries do it, but they regulate it
 much more.

 In this country I believe the republicans are going to force
 single payer on us, by simply destroying the system we have now.
 Impoverish too many people, reduce business to the point where
 few get medical benefits, and you have a failed system.

 LL> Notice I did not say Obamacare, Romneycare or Hillarycare.

 I noticed.

 LL> Leecare is the solution.  Paid for by Bob K. and US
 LL> taxpayers.

 Uhh... wait a minute until I get my boots on.

BK>>Subsistance allowances are granted to all military above
BK>>a certian rank, or were when I was in. I believe it was E3
BK>>or E4. Housing allowances are given when base housing is
BK>>not available.

 LL> Regardless of rank, our men and women in uniform deserve
 LL> better than what they get.  What we have today is a

 Oh is that ever true.

 LL> mercenary army that has been brainwashed to think that only
 LL> they can save the world. The reality is far different, as

 They have learned that. 10 years of foreign wars have taught
 them that.

 LL> it is led by a president who is a wimp (re: Syria).

 Bush was the whimp. Obama is trying desperately to keep from
 getting us into another military trap. Syria? Which side really
 did use the poison gas?

 He suffers from the same failing Bush did, the inability to name
 the real enemy, Saudi Arabia.

BK>>IOW, BFD.

 LL> That is exactly what President Assad of Syria said about
 LL> President Obama's warning not to cross that red line ...

 He may learn the hard way.

BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

... BASIC programmers never die, they GOSUB and don't RETURN.
--- Via Silver Xpress V4.5/P [Reg]
 * Origin: Fidonet Since 1991 Join Us: www.DocsPlace.org (1:123/140)