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“If you are not a socialist when you are young you have no heart, if you are a socialist when you get old you have no sense!” Winston Churchill
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LTC David Brown
PFC David Foster - living on welfare is now a life style. I worked from the time I was 12 to just 6 years ago. I never received welfare, food stamps etc. etc. neither have my children.
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PFC David Foster
They are just expanding on something that works great, public schools, it works great for kids between 6 to 18, why not expand it for kids a little younger? Have you looked at how expensive child care is, parts single parents especially can't afford to pay child care and run a household to be able to work? We are just saying the same thing over and over. I get it, you don't like the programs.
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PFC David Foster
LTC David Brown - Nor have I or anyone in my family, but I am compassionate to those who need it. Unfortunately, we have doctors that bend the rules and let people in without really needing it, but should we quit it for all the people that do need it because of a few bad apples?
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Lt Col Mark Avery
That's great, PFC David Foster - being compassionate to those who need it is exactly where most of us are. Those people respond by responsibly meeting the individual needs they see. Unfortunately, the government absolutely must not be the source of that because it rarely acts responsibly or individually - it uses one size fit all approaches. That hurts more people than it helps, both those from whom it is forcibly taken and those to whom it is irresponsibly given. It's not the doctors bending the rules - it's the government forcing them to take everyone and people demanding what they want whether appropriate or not. When the entitlement mentality becomes normalized, personal motivation is lost. Yes, the government should stop this completely, return the resources to the people who earned it, then let compassionate individuals meet the needs they see. Until the "Great Society" reforms designed to turn large swaths of the electorate into Democrat voters were implemented, that is precisely how charity worked - by individuals helping others voluntarily, often as a part of their faith expressions. We should return to that model, but it will be almost impossible because the reforms did exactly what they intended. Nothing short of a wholesale reawakening or total economic collapse is likely to make those changes possible, and I seriously hope it won't be the latter. Unfortunately, the former is the only sure way to avoid the latter, and that seems unlikely also.
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Because they have nothing between the ears. In order for us to become even Socialist would require the expenditure of trillions of dollars to develop the infrastructure. You'll hear people say we are socialist already......they are equally stupid and have never even researched the subject with any level of depth. Almost everything the United States does is based on Private Industry. From our Health Insurance Industry which makes a mere $31 Billion a year in profit (only a 3.8% margin....about the cost of capital) insuring between 91 and 92 of the population of the United States in one form or another. We have liberals foaming at the mouth pointing to the tiny 8% underinsured and attempting to guilt the rest of us into a massively inefficient, much more expensive, and bureaucratic system that everyone would hate. Why not just target and address the underinsured vs scraping our existing system? Got to ask the Liberals that one, I can't explain it. Anyways back to Socialism and Communism, our banking system and Treasury Dept are largely privately run with highly efficient private IT systems the government could never hope to duplicate. Our privately run freight railroad system is the most efficient in the world and the envy of the world. Our airline and Interstate Highway system a close second. All that would be scrapped or nationalized under socialism or communism. Thats just transportation and health care. I could go on and on into other areas but I think two subject areas are enough to prove the point that even consideration of socialism and communism are non starters.
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Would these be the same people attending schools on there parents dime? Get there cash from their parents? Live at home, being fed and clothed by their parents? Hell, they are already there. BTW way, much of this could be achieved on their own like many of us do. Join the military (VA), then get a job and work for the next 20 years or so, depending on career on single enlistment.
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