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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (174465)8/25/2003 10:29:28 AM
From: Alighieri  Read Replies (1) of 1582866
 
Where might Europe be today had the United States been committing resources to making life easy for those who don't want to work "quite so hard", rather than building a massive military machine? Ultimately, this is what we're talking about. The United States has made huge sacrifices for the benefit of the rest of the world, and it seems apparent that you are totally blind to this fact. >

The sacrifices of the past are understood and appreciated, but do not negate the need to change nor do they obligate the benefaciaries of these sacrifices to follow the benefactor to hell. The world is changing, evolving. The current conservative base fails to recognize and adjust to this change. It is not unlike all other change. It will happen despite the resistance of those who want to hang on to a familiar way.

The arrogance of liberals knows no bounds. Most conservatives believe in altruism just as strongly as you do, probably moreso. We just don't believe that you help people out by confiscating the money of one class of person and giving it to another. This serves only to make the weak more reliant on the not-so-weak.

Having health care for every citizen is not confiscating the money of one class of person and giving it to another. Having the privileged and rich pay a higher share of the common good of others less fortunate is not making them addicts. What you write is simpleminded and mean spirited. As if every one who depends on state supplied assistance is lazy and a bum. It makes no allowances for the truly needy.

You over-simplify these issues to the point where they are unrecognizable.

Funny...that's exactly the way I feel about what your views.

Al
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