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To: JohnM who wrote (171970)	9/13/2011 4:41:33 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 542839

"Democrats should hope for as many of these events as the calendar will allow." No kidding. IF allowed to, the republicans will defeat themselves. I think we should all send them a thank you after the 2012 election if they do that :-)

To: JohnM who wrote (171970)	9/13/2011 4:41:50 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 542839

>>The signature moment of last night's CNN/Tea Party Express Republican presidential candidates' debate was the response to Wolf Blitzer's hypothetical question about health coverage for a 30-year-old man needing life-saving surgery: would you just let him die? Before any candidate could answer, quite a few voices in the audience shouted "Yes!" None of the candidates bothered to rebuke them. The John Galt faction of the Tea Party Movement was in the house.<< I watched that bit, but what really bugged me was Paul's response to the first part of the question. He gave a long speech about personal responsibility, and how people shouldn't expect the government to take care of them. Blitzer then followed up and asked whether this hypothetical man should be allowed to die, and Paul spoke of how when he was practicing medicine, in the days before Medicaid, the churches would pay for the treatment of people who had insufficient means and no insurance. I'm paraphrasing him, but how is expecting the church to pay for his treatment an example of "personal responsibility" if expecting the government to do it isn't? It's really not such a huge intrusion on everyone's personal freedom to ask people to contribute to a pool that can cover any of us when the need arises.