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To: bentway who wrote (113242)3/28/2008 1:12:59 PM
From: GraceZRead Replies (1) of 306849
 
You didn't understand my post. or you simply chose to ignore the point of it.

You clearly don't understand that you are giving the government expanded powers, this is the same government that you are so clearly unhappy with right now.

Oh. you might think if the "right" people get elected that it'll be OK to put the government in charge of whether you live or die in a hospital, because these will be "good" people and they'll make the "right" choices. What experience would you be drawing these hopes from? The government here changes every four to eight years, so even if you get Jesus Christ in there come next November, he could still be voted out in four years and you then get someone you don't trust.

Are you gathering your hopes of government as a benign benefactor from the governments in Europe, Asia and South America that have state run healthcare? Would these be the same parts of the world that gave us Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao and all those various South American dictators?

Like it or not, the US Constitution with its strong emphasis on majority rule while guaranteeing minority rights has never in its 232 odd years of existence yet produced anything even close to the kinds of horrors that were produced in those same countries where people expanded the role of government to the point of taking over what we consider personal and private decisions. Places where they still demand that their government take over the primary job of looking out for their personal welfare.
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