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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (5055)	2/29/2008 11:25:48 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

OT They read and responded to his idea for his economic bill of rights. They don't exactly have to fear it, FDR hasn't been president in almost 63 years, and no president since him, even LBJ, wanted to expand government control so much. But the ideas behind his policies and statements can reasonably inspire fear to the extent that anyone takes them seriously. It distorts the use of "rights" to mean something that would decrease liberty rather than increase it. The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the Nation; The right to a job? You mean I don't have to have skills or abilities that people find useful, and I don't have to work hard either right? After all I have a right to a job. The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation; Again, I don't have to make myself actually useful, because I have a right to food clothing and recreation (and from the other rights on the list decent housing and medical care as well). The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living; So no need to make sure your products are ones people actually want, just have a farm, raise or grow something, and then you have a right to a decent living... The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad; This one's pretty vague, but it could be used to justify all sorts of restrictions on trade or business activities, many of which would be very negative. All of these rights spell security. No if actually enacted and enforced as legal rights they spell the destruction of incentives, and the creation of dependency.