Richard Pragluski

Eclectic: experience in business, electronics, finance, marketing, programming,.. Love art, music, nature, people, science. Never a bored day in a long life.

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They already control access and quality of medical care. Example 9 years minimum of college level and above to be a Dentist, 12 years for Orthodontics, and many more for advanced dental work. Should be treated like a trade where you get your license to do general practice with an education specific on dentistry not four years of indoctrination in a general college followed by Dental School.
You do not need lectured learning about all the body functions, lung and heart, etc; they are not dentistry. It is a diversion that costs time and money and divert focus away from dental practice. This can be said of many of the requirements for various medical practices which end up lowering competition divert attention from those practices and raise the cost that consumers pay.

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Banning stock trading has been impossible - reduce the reporting of stock trades to the day of the trade. Should be less hard to defend against especially if opposing voters were identified by name on X but then Representatives and Senators would be unable to brag about wanting to stop trading but they were blocked

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Agree - consider:
Always thought it would be a good idea to allow a No-Name candidate on the ballot that represented many citizens who are interested in running for that office but did not make the qualifications and/or money needed to run. If that No-Name won the actual winner would be picked by a random number from that group. Not the best system but better than the Democrat/Republican my choice or no choice way we have now. Would be interesting to try, first at a local level.
...also see BasedBandita post on same subject..

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to BasedBandita
Agree - consider:
Always thought it would be a good idea to allow a No-Name candidate on the ballot that represented many citizens who are interested in running for that office but did not make the qualifications and/or money needed to run. If that No-Name won the actual winner would be picked by a random number from that group. Not the best system but better than the Democrat/Republican my choice or no choice way we have now. Would be interesting to try, first at a local level.

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@realtalkstruth More than agree - refer to my posts.

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Everyone deserves basic health care, a place to live, etc, etc, etc.
Maybe if products and services were more affordable to all except to those of very special needs, the problems would be minimized or eliminated.

Making goods and services cheaper to produce only benefits society as a whole if prices are reduced and employment to purchase those goods and services remains intact. Eliminating inefficiencies and waste and introducing automation and technology reduce costs but only real competition can reduce prices. Automation and technology have produced more, but different, jobs in the past. Which of the three forms of government best supports making goods and services cheaper to produce while maintaining the ability to afford them and new products/services emerge?

Taking from one group of citizens to give to another group (i.e. Communism)?
Taking from all to put into a pool run by people with special (their own) interest to decide what services to provide and to whom (Socialism)?
Competition between producers some of whom control laws and regulations that lower competition (the neo-capitalism we have now)?
Competition, innovation and minimizing laws and regulations that reduce competition (Real Capitalism)”?

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Our_Financial_System

When the government is borrowing money, what is it actually borrowing? Money supposedly serves a purpose for making trading between different producers based upon what each one considers what is a fair trade. This does not explain savings. When an individual saves income he is really producing and selling products in excess of what he is currently getting back as a fair trade?
Take a simple example:

Group A makes a Product A while Group B makes a Product B. The two groups work together to decide the relative value of their products so they could fairly trade them. Assume for this example it is a one to one exchange value. Now group B decides it would like 2 of Product A but has only 1 of product B to exchange at a moment in time. How can this be fairly accomplished? A promissory note from B to A is one solution that is not practical for a large scale economy. Welcome to the concept of promissory notes, money.

Well, who controls the keeping of promissory notes, money, that can be exchanged for like services? Certainly not the two groups individually as that would rapidly make the value of the exchange media, money, unreliable. Enter external organizations: the Government and later the Financial Banking Industry. If neither is owned or controlled by either Group A or Group B, their evaluation of the worth of services of the 'money' they create would just continue to reflect the value Group A and Group B agreed upon - Right?

Not so fast, now groups G and F, which produce neither product A or product B, can reasonably be paid for their time and efforts to maintain the monetary system which they designed. This is a perfect environment that attracts all sorts of people, some good, some corrupt. The good ones make a reasonable profit based upon their efforts to achieve a fair monetary system between producers A and B. The corrupt G and F individuals will create a system where they can skim off value to enhance their own benefit at the expense of Groups A and B.

What system do we have now? A fair one or a corrupt one? Does deflation of promissory notes, money, give us a clue? If you had a promissory note created in 1950 would that note return the fair exchange for which it was originally created?

If you say corrupt, how did we get there? If enough people can make "money" by investing in stocks which are artificially increasing in value in large part by devaluating the promissory notes upon which they were based, does this contribute to the corruption? But, but, those people did not create the system. They are only using the system that they can not change without major work. Welcome to the bad side of human nature. Elon, Trump, Republicans, Democrats, we need you. Think and act.

'Little men and little women like you and me' we do have a voice, use it on social media, letters to your Representatives, voting in primaries and elections- we will make a difference.

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True capitalism provides a way to become wealthy without stealing from others and dollar devaluation is stealing from others.
Inflation (really dollar devaluation) hurts the average American savers the most, especially as they get older and retire. Their income realistically can not keep pace unless they keep working at businesses they own or at investing. The stock market is out of the picture as any investment adviser would tell you because, losses in the short term can take many years to get back to normal and start earning real income. To make matters worse, people blame retirees for the problem with the government budget. Their ‘social security’ payments were a Ponzi scheme to gain votes from people who thought that the system they paid into was for their benefit when it was for the benefit of politicians to gain votes.
The financial system was designed by financial-orientated people and, due to human nature, it was biased to make it easy for that group to become wealthy by taking advantages of the intimacies built into it that others would have difficulty understanding and using. The problem is not just with the rich but with the natural desire to be well-off and secure and affects individuals in all fields of endeavor. This becomes a problem when it over-rides the more moral and ethical aspects of human nature . It succeeds when thinking becomes shallow and restricted to justify current actions. Think.

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The neocapitalist were quite happy with their financial gains from a strong economy driven in part by devaluaing the purchasing power of the average citizen's income and savings. Are you really surprised by the election results?

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@RepAprilDelaney Thank you for exposing yourself as being against the wishes of your voters.

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@RepDanGoldman Now, read Goldman's posts on illegal immigration and the need to get rid of their criminal element.....crickets

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Why are not the protesters being arrested and charged as accesoraries in the crimes for which the people being pursued by ICE are accused?

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@SenSanders Another justification for stealing money?

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If we had just elected Kamala Harris and Tim Walz there would be no 9 billion dollar scandal to report.

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@Rep_Magaziner Make healthcare less expensive not by paying for another person's insurance.

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@TruthMagnate @0hour1 when did they take down profile page, what date?

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@GavinNewsom @realDonaldTrump 2010-2015, 2020-2024 steepest rise in beef prices all under Democrat administrations. Thank you Newsom for the chart.

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Ro Khanna is going on and on about "letting college tuition ..saddle them with a lifetime debt" He is showing no interest on how to make a degree more affordable only how to force others to pay for someone else's college expenses. What is driving up the cost of getting a degree? With the information that is readily available on the internet especially with AI assistance, why not a certification process rather than a college 'degree'.

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If Senator Murphy is really for government Healthcare, Social security in old age and other social programs why is he not in the forefront in protecting those systems from fraud and corruption? Why is he not leading DOGE investigations, legislating restrictions on salaries and compensation for people managinging those programs, boldly prosecuting those who misuse funding to enrich themslves, their family members, friends and associates. Why is he not forcing full visibility in how the money is being spent, what the managers and 'workers' are getting paid and other compensations they may be receiving? If you voted for him why are you not demanding action from him. It's not only about getting more money for these programs, it is about using that funding effectively and directly for the purpose it was legislated.

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@RepTedLieu If you had the power to end the shutdown immediately would you do it? You do have that power but we are still in a shutdown. Quit blaming others for your failure to act.