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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
Aw jeez.......I really have to stop going to bed early and sleeping in of a morning. Look what I've missed .
A civil "excuse me I'm female" would have sufficed.
Why would it be insulting to be thought of as a man when you give no hint in your avatar as to your gender?
As for the fire, police, military, etc....I pay for those services thru my taxes. Do you really believe thats what I was referring to taking into consideration the trend of this thread? 
So far, I"m not eligigle for SS checks or medicare. But, when I am, I"ve paid for those too, thru the taxes while working.
Do you really think the government, as it stands, can do a better job of health care than what is there right now?
Never mind the problems that exist. Will the government improve things, or make them worse?
How are those billions of dollars our esteemed leaders cheerfully pass out to the banks and dealerships doing? Well, they're happy, anyway.
Again......where is the money coming from to pay for all these socially correct programs?
As for your last paragraph......of course I vote. Thats what you do when you agree/disagree with your government.
And yes. I believe we have a large percentage of people who believe the government should take care of them, from health insurance, to welfare, to bailing them out of houses they never should have bought in the first place, because they knew they couldn't afford them.
I'm just not one of them. |
That's it in a nutshell. The difference between people who think they should be "taken care of" and those who take care of themselves. That's really at the core of the healthcare debate here. I don't want the government to take care of me other than emergency services, education, and military. When my husband was out of work, we relied on my paltry teacher's salary and our savings. We paid for our own health insurance (by the way, I do believe that ALL insurance is a scam and that the insurance industry is what really has a strangle hold on this country) and took care of our own needs. We cut out everything that wasn't essential. That's what responsible people do.