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Free College And Health Care, Considerations For The Future But Not Absolutes

I am not sure who I will vote for in 2024 for the Presidential Election yet. Many like myself, aren't content about a Trump vs Biden rematch. I would like to see a candidate who actually will do something about wealth inequality and workers rights. Trump and Biden have the backing of the corporations and the super rich, because their policies will be favorable to their interests, depending on what industry it is. In many highly developed democracies like in the Baltic nations, workers are entitled to things that in the United States we are yet to really have. Things like more paid time off, more time off as parents when starting a family etc. The defense budget is cut in favor of social spending like for education, medicine etc. The rich are taxed more than they are here, to support these programs. This is definitely an option worth considering in the future. It would not be any worse than what we spend right now on our interventions around the globe. It could be a slightly better alternative to the nation we are right now, a nation that is in perpetual war, always in someone else's backyard. Think of Libya, Yemen, Iraq, Israel, Ukraine, just too many places to mention our unnecessary involvement When we give to Israel or Ukraine, that money is gone. It is not coming back to us. The debt goes up and the government has to find ways of paying it off. They will not pay us back for our help. That's just how it is. I don't know whether the United States should have Free College or a Free Health Care system, because we don't really know what it's like to have it yet, even if we might know a lot about what it is. But it can't be as bad as when we send our money elsewhere and see nothing in return or to show for it like our failed war in Afghanistan, which is once again taken over by radical extremists. Nothing was gained from that. So it has to be a lot better spending our money here and actually see something nominally positive.

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