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Editor,
Terry Backs has everything but the black helicopters descending on us, and Sen. Carmine Mowbray claims with 50 million people uninsured, and tens of thousands more bankrupted ever year due to medical problems even if they are insured, that we have the best healthcare delivery system in the world. Then Sen. Mowbray suggests that saddling a good number of our college students with backbreaking debt, which as a corollary helps fund a seemingly evermore unjustifiably avaricious educational establishment, is nevertheless the most effective way to handle this vital conduit to our society’s future.
And speaking of debt, I would point out that only $200 billion is actually invested in the “real” economy every year in this country, while $40 trillion is passed back and forth in “paper” transactions that mostly benefit the rich and super rich. And with our national debt now exceeding our GDP, at what point do responsible people think, without radical restructuring, that this house of cards is going to come tumbling down?
The government of Norway pays for all college education for the qualified who seek it, and it also pays for cradle-to-grave healthcare for all of Norway’s citizens. Ironically, far less of their GDP, compared to ours, goes to healthcare, and they have better results in infant mortality and life expectancy. And the Norwegians apparently think that educating their college students for free is a sound investment in their country’s future, since those young people will be running the country in 20 years.
Yes; the people of Norway willingly pay higher taxes, but they expect more and get more out of their government.
Hooray for the Polson High School students exercising their Constitutional rights, and hooray for Polson getting a generous grant.
And Terry Backs, I’ll bet the United Nations spends zero time considering community development in Polson, Mont.
Virgil Hess
Polson
