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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (10723)2/3/2006 11:10:02 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) of 541878
 
>So it's very far from charity for me. And is a fundamental difference between the way you and I think about social policy.

Exactly. I'm glad that we're finally clear on that. There really is a huge chasm between the socialistic and the capitalistic approaches. We sometimes get caught up in little debates about whether a tax cut is really a cut and loose track of the huge fundamental difference. Having evolved myself from one side to the other over a lifetime (when I first registered to vote, I wanted to register as a socialist but NJ didn't register by party. <g>) and being an introspective and non-partisan person, the fundamental difference is very clear to me. I can think of no better example of it than the ours/theirs/take/give question.

To repeat what I've typed on several occasions, I see medicaid as humane, in that it provides for a more liveable old age than would be possible without it.

I think that helping the poor elderly is humane, too. But I will fight with my last breath the notion that it an entitlement. If your side would consider thinking of it as charity and framing it that way, IMO you'd have a much better chance of getting support for the kind of programs you want. The psychology matters. Maybe that's something we could talk about sometime.
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