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rulemylife -> RE: Poll: Health-care reform more popular after passage than before (3/24/2010 5:00:25 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Sanity
Its the outrageous taxes in Europe, and the level of governmental control over your lives that you put up with that baffle me. You may prefer a government which acts like a stern nanny who wipes your nose and wipes your ass and burps you and feeds you and gives you a good spanking then puts you to bed if you yearn for a bit of freedom, but we're not all like that over here.
Many of us prefer to be more indepoendant than that, and we tend to enjoy an invigorating level of liberty.
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ORIGINAL: tiesfreeme
Being European i'm used to a good working health care system. Any time i learn of an American citizen losing his house and the shirt off his back because he didn't have insurance or it wouldn't cover whatever medical treatment he required, i feel embarrassed. As you should feel.
Things like that shouldn't happen in a civilized country!
Give this plan a chance to prove itself. I'm sure there are many flaws but that's no reason to bite off its head.
Could you throw in a chorus of "God Bless America" with that?
The Star Spangled Banner?
Because we here Americans don't take to none of that there European socialism.
This here is America goddamnit, love it or leave it.
Is it any wonder most of the world thinks we're morons?
http://www.time.com/time/world/article
Europeans are gloating this week. The continent might be struggling with ballooning debts, a faltering euro and national strikes, but when the U.S. House voted in favor of President Barack Obama's health care bill Sunday night, March 21, Europeans seized the moment to thumb their noses at Americans and remind them that they've had pretty good health care for decades.
"On Sunday evening the richest, most powerful country in the world, the USA, finally entered the 20th century. Yes, not the 21st century, but the 20th," read an article published Monday on the popular French news website Rue89.com.
...In Europe, voters demand that their governments offer good public services — including decent education and medical care — and regularly vote them out of office when they fail to deliver. Taxes may be slightly higher in Europe, but medical fees are heavily subsidized by governments and are drastically cheaper than they are in the U.S.
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