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On 9/30/23 5:30 AM, Attila wrote:
Abortion should be like any other medical procedure
and be the decision of the patient and the doctor.
It is the business of no one else.
I support a Pro-Choice Constitutional Amendment.
Don`t build a wall, build a kill zone.
. . .
I tend to agree about the abortion thing ... though
I`m more of a "semesterist", draw some lines at 4.5
months for ethical/human-rights reasons. The GOP should
have just stayed the hell away from that damned issue.
Preachin` to the choir there - didn`t gain one recruit,
lost a lot of potentials.
As for your "kill zone" ... how many 5-year-olds do
you intend to gun down in the river hmmm ?
Insurance ... at present it is required to get a mortgage
or improvment loan. I understand why. However mortgages
and such will not come to an end just because nobody can
get insurance. It`s too lucrative a biz. Instead they will
have to get used to taking chances, being willing to write
off some percentage of loss, maybe make slightly lower
profits.
The KINDS of homes may change too. Ever looked into fully
modular houses ? They can put `em mostly together in a
single day, no brickwork, even most of the electric and
plumbing can be pre-routed. They are never really "attractive",
cracker-boxes, but they can be functional and maybe half the
price of a similarly-sized conventional home. What`s likely
to NOT be insurable are the "contents".
Concrete+foamcrete panels for wind zones, wood+polymer
panels for elsewhere. Hey, ever seen these ? :
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d1/a9/45/d1a945768420f28bb0af513cbd6f7f00.jpg
Basically a spiffed modern quonset hut. They`d be strong,
but it`s add-yer-own-insulation. Try silicone roofing
goo spray over it ...
So, smaller, cheaper, not so many by the seashore ; but
Joe Average will usually still get `em. And if he can`t,
too many of him, they`ll have the govt FORCE lenders or
even The State to lend regardless. That is a bad "solution",
but despair tends to lead to quick fixes.
SS/Medicare ... they did go a little overboard, but it`s
still less of a "nanny state" than anywhere in Europe,
maybe even China. Things were terrible before, could
become terrible at the other extreme - so the USA has
tried to reach a comfy balance by and large.
The huge shift from farm to city, early 1900s, meant
an end to multi-generational homes and the support
those provided. SS/MC are now *necessary*. John-Boy
lives 1000 miles away from grandma, workin` for Tesla,
just waiting for a robot to replace him.
The bad bit is less to do with the programs themselves
than it is that the MONEY attached becomes a
political/campaign football - more to be used as
bribes-for-votes rather than rationally/efficiently.
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