Altogether now "Cut my taxes".
Could you please point out the passage were i said or implied that??
But goodness, trying to make sure a fellow countryman can go see a doctor? Frick that. Piss on 'em. That's your attitude.
And please while you searching, find this passage too.
You are so blind and so locked in to your little box, that you don't even read what i said.
You put words in my mouth i have never said.
You assume that because I am against a goverment run health plan i am automatically don't care about anybody that needs to see a doctor. WHERE DID I SAY THAT.
Assumption is the religion of the stupid, and I nominate you as their president.
Unless people like you are able to see beyond party lines a serious discussion on healthcare will not be possible.
France and England have seen the light. After years of trying to finance a national healthcare system, they have realized that it can't be financed and have now opted for a two tier system.
I am not a healthcare specialist and I am not a professor of economics. All we (North America) have to do is to take a look at Europe and evaluate waht is hapening over there to find out what is working and what is not.
The mantra of the "nanny state' has to stop and give way to honest discussion on what is feasible and what isn't.
If you just keep going to the wallet to the ones that work, without any regard for their concerns, you will create two things:
1) You will dampen the spirit of those who want more and want to do better. The result will be less entrpreneurship and a lessend willingness to take risk.
In effect you are creating a country of lemmings. Again listen to some of the news coming out of Europe. The biggest block for growth, is over taxation. This over taxation is a direct result of social programms getting out of control. There is a push by the SPD(the socialist party of Germany) to reverse some of those programs.
2) Class warfare, between those who play by the rules and those that are the leeches of society.
I will never turn my back on somebody that needs help. Everyone that is sick should ahve the opportunity to get help. Everyone that loses his/her job should get TEMPORARY help until he/she is back on track again.
What I am against are those that take advantage of the sysytem by just being plain lazy. They are out there. Again this does not come from me reading a book. In my own extended family I know of some that just don't want to work, and have been living on wellfare for the past 8 years.
Is it fair that these people should get a free ride??And live on the expense of those who drag their ass in to work every morning? Not in my book.
If you, because of this, want to make me out as privileged or heartless. You are either just an agitator or you are part of the problem and are trying to defend your lifestyle.