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Kree -> RE: I am ready for Clinton, Obama and Clinton for President. Are you? (12/23/2006 3:28:15 AM)
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How was it foolish?
The UK has a health plan that works correct?
Does taking care of others denote one as being foolish?
Or should we live the type of wealthy lives so others might suffer?
You obviously do not know much about the health care situation in the UK. We have friends who live there. If the need is for emergency treatment, there is a good health care system. If the need is for something that is deemed to be unnecessary, there is a waiting list that one must sit on. A good example is a vasectomy. Imagine someone wanting to limit family size being put on a waiting list for three years for the procedure. Yes, that is a real example. Imagine paying income taxes in the 70-90% range so the government can decide what your needs for healthcare and social security are.
My comment concerning Hillary and her health plan applies to her and to all the others who feel that citizens are incompetent to care for themselves, thus creating a need for the government to rule every aspect of our lives and make all of our decisions for us.
As to "taking care of others" and your "us vs them" argument about the wealthy, you have not watched the political landscape change over the years where certain parties and certain individuals within those parties used government programs and giveaways to create a dependency in the electorate that brought votes to them. It was not out of the goodness of their hearts, it was an easy way to create a form of economic blackmail to keep a class distinction and to keep that class voting to get more from the government. Elected officials do not pay the bills for this... people who get off their asses and work do.
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