Do people 'deserve' universal health care?

[SadisticNature]

Please feel free to elaborate on when you feel America was a world power and support it with facts/arguments.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_..._United_States

Note: Section 3.1 history of top US tax rates.

From 1932 to 1981 the tax rate was 67% or higher for the top bracket.

Likewise for 1917-1921.

The only periods with tax rates lower than present were:

Pre-1913 (no federal income taxes),1925-1931 and 1988-1992.

Before 1913 the US was not a major international power, and from 1925-1931 you see the fiscal policies that shaped the great depression in action.

In 1988-1992 you have a brief dip below present day rates, that lead to a soaring national deficit which was brought under control by Clinton before again spiraling out of control under Bush (and likely getting even worse under Obama).

[SadisticNature]

As for the tone some of your tones have been similarly offensive.

You take specific opinion positions and trumpet them as if anyone who disagrees you has no understanding of the world. I responded with that tone because I felt talked down to. I don't believe I initiated it.

[steelish]

As for the tone some of your tones have been similarly offensive.

You take specific opinion positions and trumpet them as if anyone who disagrees you has no understanding of the world. I responded with that tone because I felt talked down to. I don't believe I initiated it.

Ah. So you feel I've treated you so stupidly that I felt the need to explain what a bomb or a plane was?

As to specific opinion positions...of course I do! So do you. I would expect that. I don't feel you have no understanding of the world. What I think is you have no understanding of how most Americans feel right now. You don't live here. As far as I know you didn't grow up American and move out of the States. Feel free to state your opinion. I feel free to state mine. I can disregard yours if I wish, just as you can disregard mine as you wish.

What I took offense to was the way you wrote directly to me as if I were 3 years old. I don't recall EVER doing that in a post to you. If I did, please point it out to me.

"and during this event there were big planes called bombers, that dropped things called bombs on places called factories where stuff is made"

I really don't recall ever taking that tone with you.