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

To: gg cox who wrote (9145)	9/7/2009 10:35:28 AM
From: skinowski	4 Recommendations Respond to of 42652

It is true that we are racing towards socialism as hard as we can. However, everything is relative - compared to most others, we're still behind... not there yet. The ideas of the Founders are still alive. Only because our self-interested stupid greedy politicians keep pushing us, that doesn't mean that we must hurry up and oblige. What we should do is to vote out of office any politician of any party who shows inclinations towards top down collectivist solutions.

To: gg cox who wrote (9145)	9/7/2009 12:45:14 PM
From: ProDeath	5 Recommendations Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 42652

The last 8 years has given us a pretty good idea of how big government should be, and the answer we got was just big enough to help line the pockets of those who control it and their friends. All the magical thinking regarding the significance of pet ideologies one sees posted here never ceases to amuse me, the bottom line is that it's all about who gets and who gives. There is an distinctly sociopathic element of American society that believes it owes nothing to the society at large and should not be accountable to it in any way. Their ideologies help this element maintain a self image of being something other than selfish, parasitic opportunists. Ultimately these are weak people, for they are too weak to even acknowledge their own nature. This makes the notion of rounding them up into stinking cattle pens prior to incineration much more palatable ;-)