Socialism always says its goal is social justice, but it is still socialism. This country was founded upon individualism, and has prospered because if that. No matter how well meaning your goal is, use of socialism as a political solution will destroy this country. It destroys motivation, and the willingness to take risk. I appreciate your honest feelings, they are well intended I am sure, but that political solution to social problems will destroy our political and economic system and like all countries that used socialism to achieve social justice, we will fail.
Social Security was designed to be a way for the government to force workers to save for retirement by extracting money from their wages in exchange for the promise of a retirement check. THEN it was expanded to those who paid NOTHING into it. THEN it was expanded to pay more than you pay in. It will go broke, that is a mathematic certainty. Medicare is the the same. Medicaid is Socialism, I agree.
Medical care for all is good. But everyone cannot get everything free. It must be limited. Mandatory government medical care for all is a disaster.
Your point is since we already have socialism, we should have more.
My point is we are standing on the edge of economic destruction. I want to back away and look for another solution. We should not try to jump and hope we can fly.
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Originally Posted by Lou Card
Well JimJoe, with 34 million Americans uninsured, I would say charity is not working very well so lets have everyone give a little more of themselves. I just can't see how helping the sick can be a loss of freedom. I am a 22 year military retired man and I understand and respect freedom. If I need to pay more taxes to help the sick and the poor of this country, then I gladly do so. I will sacrifice for my Family and to me every human on earth is part of my extended family. When I see people dying because of the lack of preventative medicine and proper health care, I don't feel any pride in knowing that I have great health care while millions of people have none. Some say "I worked hard for what I have". Does that mean that the maid that cleans up after you in your hotel room does not work hard or the cook in the diner where you eat your breakfast has an easy job. I don't care if you were born with the old silver spoon in your mouth or you were fortunate enough to make it big in the business world, to think you deserve more than the unfortunate ones among us is a selfish act of personal greed. For every lazy man sitting on the porch that I agree does not deserve free health care, there are many many more working poor that just can not afford health care no matter how many hours they put it at their no health care job. The same people that scream pro life say nay to prenatal health care for the uninsured and that alone accounts for thousands of deaths in the 7th, 8th and even 9th month of pregnancy. I am strongly against abortion, but I see abortion as an act of kindness when compared to a life of misery due to lack of early childcare that causes so much suffering to children. So if like me, you are Pro Life, then accept this health care bill as one more way of sustaining life at all ages from conception all the way to the very old.
Lou
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