Quote:His expressed "policies" change all the time.  He's endorsed the Obamacare mandate, he's for economic protectionism, anti- free trade, and he's said he will not do anything about entitlements.    Those are not "center right" policies, those are liberal positions.  

 

1.) He did not endorse the Obamacare mandate.  He has said repeatedly that the government should not force someone to buy a product that he doesn't want.  He has also said that he doesn't want people dying in the streets because they can't afford coverage.  His approach is negotiating easements with care providers to take care of the indigent.  

 

2.) He's not anti-free trade.  He's anti us getting ripped off.  Both Parties have been talking about the artificial manipulation of china's currency.  We can't continue to play against a stacked deck while we surrender our jobs and production base to other countries and get little in return.  As he has correctly stated, Countries like China already have punitive regulations, duties, and Tarriffs on AMERICAN GOODS being imported into their countries.  That's not free trade, that's just handing over money and jobs.  

 

3.) I see you harping on this entitlement theme pretty hard.  I take it that means that you wrote in Paul Ryan for your primary vote?  At current the labor force participation rate is at its lowest rate in about 40%.  That means you have a lot less people paying fica/self employment taxes.  If you grow the economy you have more people earning a paycheck to pay into the system.  We have also had relatively stagnant GDP growth for the last decade or so.  We have to grow the pie.  

 

Also, We know for a fact that we waste something close to 60 billion dollars a year on medicare.  That's what the governments own numbers say.  If you cut that number in half and negotiate better deals on care being provided to such a large group of beneficiaries you can bring the program back into solvency.  

 

Moreover, i would love to hear the candidate that has expressed a plan to abolish entitlement spending in their first year in office.  I mean because obviously every candidate in this race both Democrat and Republican have released 12 thousand page proposals on bringing medicare medicaid and social security to an end within 4 years of them taking office right? 

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