gee, since france, the uk, norway, canada, iceland, germany, finland, and several others, that DO have socialized medicine, all have BETTER overall population health, and spend LESS per capita on healthcare, i think a lot of people might be willing to give it a shot rather than continue to leave millions of (people/children) without access to so much as routine checkups.
but i guess that makes me a statist... as opposed to advocating censures on freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and reproductive rights, as well as supporting the unceasing domestic wiretapping and surveillance of american citizens, as well as excusing the de facto repeal of habeas corpus for US citizens, like yr boy john "what's a shiite" mccain, which is just dandy, right?
drilling in anwr would account for less than 5% of our daily oil consumption (AFTER we spent the better part of a decade and several billion dollars setting up the infrastructure), do nothing to reduce the overall price of oil, last less than two decades even at that rate, and keep us on dino-juice life support in the mean time. also, it would violently rape a fragile, protected ecosystem and at least one threatened species that inhabits it. the only reason to support drilling there is the money that would line the pockets of oil executives as a result.
american refinieries are currently operating at peak efficiency and below peak capacity. refinery capacity isn't the problem, supply of crude oil is. that supply has been disrupted and tightened by our voluntary war in iraq. this has caused speculators to drive up bids on oil futures, which has caused the price to rise uncontrollably. you're just parroting the good-little right-wing toady talking points, which really only serve to make this administration's contractor and business associates richer.
