thoughts on politics - part 3

This is more of Alex's politics paper....
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3. Economy. This is extremely complicated. Here are the pros and cons I see. In the Republican system there are too many benefits for big businesses and not enough for the blue collar worker. Not to sound childish but it is basically the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. We have been eliminating the middle class for some time now. In this system businesses have been laying off their American workforce and hired overseas employees for half the rate.

The Democratic system has bad downfalls as well. Unions can run the country in a dangerous direction. The welfare system is abused and seems to be enabling many people to produce absolutely nothing while collecting checks. Sure it legitimately helps some but I don’t think this is the norm.
The war is definitely a big factor in this that sways my opinion beyond these analyses.

4. Healthcare. Sorry to be so opinionated on this one but I am certain I am right on this. Healthcare will NOT work in a free market. I am not a socialist, I am actually a registered Republican, but this is logically flawed. The “invisible hand” concept envisioned by Adam Smith has made capitalism the best market system in the world for almost any product with the exception of healthcare. In a free market, supply and demand with competition between the suppliers control the system. Profitability drives suppliers to change the quality of their product, their prices, their efficiency in order to succeed. This usually works for the benefit of the buyers by providing an affordable, quality product, but in the case of healthcare it is the very FLAW in the system. Insurance companies can out-profit one another not by proving better service, but by avoiding the unhealthy, high-risk people who need it the most, by spending huge amounts of their budgets on lawyers to avoid paying out and by negotiating down the prices of service with doctors, which results in lists of doctors you can see and doctors you can’t. Universal healthcare is not perfect, but it is far better.

5. The War. I am tired of being the police of the world and the world is also very tired of us assuming this responsibility. Even if you disagree with this point, I think we can agree that we should take care of problems at home first before fixing them in other places. Borrowing 10 billion dollars a month that we don’t have to help democratize a nation that has a 72 billion dollar surplus and many of its citizens don’t particularly want Westernization does not seem smart.

6. Foreign Policy. I believe speaking to other nations is good, even our enemies in a diplomatic way. I agree that we shouldn’t “legitimize” terrorist organizations with our presence, but flat out ignoring them doesn’t seem to be ideal either. I believe we should try to do more of our “policing” in union with the other nations of the world and not think we are above them which is the perception we are certainly giving.

As we choose one of these two candidates compromises will be made. If we were to build the perfect Biblical candidate issue by issue we would end up with Jesus, who will be our King eventually. In the meantime we are left with compromises.
Okay, I’m done. Thank you so much for reading this. Please reply with your thoughts. I promise I will not be offended by anything. Love.