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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index
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To: GST who wrote (212290)7/24/2009 2:37:15 PM
From: 2sigmaRead Replies (1) of 306849
 
Freedom has nothing to do with it. And by the way, you're too abstract and general with your terms. Define freedom, and then let's talk.

Public subsidy and subsequent efficiency of services (i.e. police, fire, education and now healthcare) is the issue. Look at what public subsidy has done for education. This country has been moving towards functionally illiteracy for years relative to the rest of the first world.

Look at what public subsidy has done for fire and police protection. Hey I'm happy with it. The brave-in-blue protect my ass pretty well.

"A policeman who only protected me because he was on my personal payroll would not make me free --" This statement is ridiculous. Who cares. Cops are here to provide safety and order which are only a piece of the puzzle of what constitutes freedom according to my definition. Try Singapore. I hear there is lots of enforcement, but I wouldn't call their society any more free than here, it feels excessively constrained.

Again freedom has nothing to do with the govt. providing healthcare. It's a luxury, based on available resources of a jurisdiction, not a right. It's not endowed to us by our creator. Where were you when the founding documents were taught in school, smokin' a crack pipe?

H.
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