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

To: Lane3 who wrote (5073)	2/29/2008 6:18:00 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

<<<what living-wage job would you give someone with no skills and no work ethic? My added question: how would you make that happen?>>> FDR put forth his proposal in the 1944 SOU speech. It is a vision thing. But, just like JFK's speech proposing that we send a man to the moon, JFK did not have the mathematics to support that proposal to make it happen. The question is whether the vision is feasible or not. The specifics wrt a living-wage job and how that is possible? The short answer is that in more advanced and prosperous civilizations everyone can be guaranteed a job with a living wage. However we can debate whether if all the conditions for that to happen is here or not. I don't it is here, but I don't think we are that far off. Nothing has to change with respect to people pursing happiness (jobs or whatever). There is nothing that we have to take away from anybody in that regard. There will be a problem with people who have problems in development and in growing up. How do we motivate people at the bottom of society and make sure they do not turn into criminality and be a drag on the rest of society. This is where we may differ philosophically. There are those that believe that punishment is the only way to change behavior and there are those that do not believe punishment is the way to go. Just as most people were not able to discuss the feasibilty of going to the moon (most of us didn't have the necessary mathematics) we would get mired in the details of implementing FDR's vision. However, we can discuss the overall philosophy and the overall feasibility.