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To: KLP who wrote (322215)	9/2/2009 7:42:24 AM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793912

Legal work is expensive - hundreds of dollar per hour. Clearly we need public funded universal legal representation so the greedy lawyers don't keep their stranglehold on America. Money should be no problem, lets just tax their obscene windfall jury awards. Lawyers should provide their services as public services not for profit. <jk> Funny, you know while doctors don't actually go round cutting off peoples feet and yanking tonsils out just to make money like Obama says, there are personal injury lawyers who go round soliciting bogus suits for just that purpose.

To: KLP who wrote (322215)	9/2/2009 4:30:34 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 793912

So What Is a "Basic Human Right"? By Doug Is health care a basic human right? Bob Lupton, writing at the Sojourners presumptively-named blog "God’s Politics", thinks so. I created an account so I could post a comment that includes a question I’ll now formally pose here: Is food a basic human right? Food you need constantly in order to live. Health care you only need occasionally. (For some, very occasionally.) So which is more important for life? Clearly, food is more important for life, and thus shouldn’t we have universal food care before we have universal health care? (Before you point to food stamps or the WIC program, understand that they are nowhere near as invasive to the rights of all as ObamaCare would be. Those programs for the poor do not place any restrictions on my food purchases; on what I buy or where I buy it or what sorts of foods are sold. ObamaCare would force me to get a certain type of policy as soon as I cross a state line or change jobs. And there are many other restrictions on people and employers all in the name of covering those not currently covered. None of these kinds of restrictions come from food programs for the poor.) So the questions before you are: If you support the health care reform that the Democrats are trying to pass: 1 - Is health care a basic human right? 2 - If your answer to #1 is "Yes", then is food also a basic human right? 3 - If your answer to #2 is "Yes", then why not universal food coverage? And what, exactly, do you consider a "basic human right" in general? 4 - If your answer to #2 is "No", why isn’t food a right if it’s more important to life? 5 - And finally, if your answer to #1 was "No", then why do you support a program that restricts everyone in order to deal with a few? Why not a program that just covers the poor, like food stamps do in the area of food? ... stonescryout.org