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One question: Why not?
Why does our government not buy the pharmaceutical companies that create and produce life-saving drugs, like insulin and statins, and cancer treatments and Ozepmic?
We pay for them one way or the other with the highest health insurance and prescription costs in the world. This way those drugs would cost us far less in the long run because we wouldn’t be shackled to Wall Street and bazillion dollar bonuses.
And while we’re on drugs – and don’t we wish we were right now – why not subsidize their production here so China can’t hold us hostage?
Why not encourage the brightest immigrants around the world to live here by offering free education and subsidized housing while they’re students? This “investment” would pay for itself in businesses and jobs created over time.
Why not make certain (which I think President Biden has begun to attempt) the most critical computer chips – the ones used by AI and weapons systems – are manufactured here, in America, for the same reason as drug manufacturing? Taiwan could be the next Hong Kong, in our lifetimes…
We need more doctors and nurses in America so why not offer them free medical school and nursing degree education in exchange for 5 years of service in under-served communities?
Why not require mandatory public service for all citizens, as they do in Israel or South Korea, requiring every young person to complete two years of active service to our country before the age of 25?
Why not de-monopolize our healthcare industry so investment bankers don’t own every hospital and clinic?
Why not admit the flaw in our constitution that created the electoral college – merely to placate slave-owners in southern states – and get rid of it, electing our President by popular vote as any real democracy would?
Why not create term limits for Congress and federal judges, including those on the Supreme Court?
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Ok, that’s a starter. I’m sure you disagree with many, perhaps all of my Why Nots, so feel free to share some of yours.
Why not, huh? What have you got to lose?