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On top of the highway robbery of private health insurance we have a defacto single payer public healthcare system for retirees and those on public assistance that is the government's largest expense, currently sitting in the #2 spot (a major issue that keeps getting kicked down the road), after that you have interest on the debt that is borrowed to fund everything, and then defense (and no, defense can't be cut, don't even go there). We are heading for a surprise failed bond auction (where private investors cause a government shutdown because they refuse to purchase bonds).

Biden is going after a major elephant in the room: the sprawling UnitedHealth monopoly. And Trump took the first stab at the other sprawling healthcare monopoly: regional hospitals.

If the people do not start voting in moderate statesman and serious legislators then all their petty dumb ass concerns are going to get crushed out of existence in one fell swoop of mandatory fascist-socialism...if they are lucky. Honestly, I can't venture to guess the fallout of a bond auction hiccup. All I know is that it will involve pain for everyone in the world.




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