This thread is about the economy you rough ridin' idiots.
It's not about how much rich ass americans spend on healthcare as a percent of GDP. The average american spends more on healthcare per capita than half the residents of those countries earn in income per capita. Unless you have an argument that spending money on healthcare is bad for the economy, shut the eff up. We get it, we're rich as crap and can spend more on healthcare than other countries because we don't live in a one bedroom apartment with our entire extended family and spend 70% of our income on rent like they do in Europe. Comparing percentage spent on GDP in a vacuum is about as useful to the conversation as vacuuming your front yard. Shut up, you don't make sense, if you're mad about it, don't go to the doctor, get sick and die.
It's also not about the tax code. I don't give a eff what you think the top marginal tax rate should be. Unless you have an argument about how the marginal tax rate on the top bracket affects the economy, shut the eff up. If you think changing the tax rate on the richest americans will make your life better you are rough ridin' dipshit that assumes the Federal Govt. can only spend what it takes-in in revenues. That is obviously not the case as this sociopathic government continues to spend trillion of dollars more than it takes in. Your life will not get better by making someone elses life worse, unless you are a demented bad person that takes pleasure in others misgivings.
All I can piece together from these asinine red herrings about healthcare and the tax code is that everyone thinks when the government spends money on something its bad for the economy. Of course you dipshit liberals don't even understand that you're accidentally making this argument, which doesn't surprise me because you can't wrap your brain around what an economy is. You only know B.O.'s mindless talking points, which have never made a goddamn lick of sense and which is will be the reason, if any, he loses the election in 2012.
Back to the economy. What did you guys think about the piss poor employment reports this past week? Pretty shitty huh? How about that piss poor consumer confidence reading a few weeks back. 60.8!!! That's is god awful. Remember when W was president and it was like 140 (obvious fishing attempt), those were the days when everyone that actually went to work made a good living.