I do not see any reason why you should have to pay for the health care of that person I met who is dying. I will help him as much as I can, and I will ask others I know to help him. If you wish to help that is wonderful and I will admire you for it. But I do not think it is appropriate to force people to help.
The American Medical Association has this big ad campaign where they are promoting using our tax dollars to pay their members to provide health care under the guise of wanting to help people. If the AMA wants to help people who don't have health insurance, why don't they set up a program where their members volunteer to provide free health care to those individuals? No, the members of the AMA want me to pay for them to help these people and then claim that they are doing it because they care.
Deuteronomy 23:25 says that you can help yourself to the grain you can easily pluck from your neighbor's field, but that you are not allowed to actually harvest it. It doesn't say that you can(or should) harvest some of it to give to the poor.
So, it doesn't contradict the OP's point.
Except that the U.S. had better health care than third world countries before there was such a thing as health insurance. Third world countries don't have lousy health care because they don't have health insurance. Third world countries have lousy health care, because they are third world countries.
go to the third world. see people dying of diseases and conditions 50 cents and 15 minutes of a doctor's time woudl cure
your ignorance is huge
I have been to third world countries. I have seen people suffering from conditions that are easily cured.
But you see they weren't suffering because they lacked health insurance, they were suffering because they lacked health care.
You seem to think that not having health insurance is the same as not having health care.
everyone should have healthcare insurance, correct or no?
NO, actually, no one should have health insurance. If people paid for the cost of their health care out of their own pockets, market forces would come to bear on the price of health care.
Um, you do know that the Republican candidate for President is one of the foremost sponsors of legislation to "get money out of politics"? That's why the most recent compaign finance law has his name on it.
Additionally, I have seen several sources where people were able to donate to the Obama campaign with false names and addresses. There is no evidence that the Obama fund raising is made up of small donors. The only thing we know for sure is that is made up of small donations.
Actually, you are wrong about the National Socialist Worker's Party. Ideologically, the Nazis and the Communists couldn't be more divided. That's one of the reasons why Nazi Germany was considered one of the greatest threats to the Soviet Union.
Who considered Nazi Germany "one of the greatest threats to the Soviet Union"? Stalin considered Hitler to be only world leader he could trust (of course he proved to be wrong). That was why Stalin signed the Nazi-Soviet Pact in early WWII. The difference between the Nazis and the Soviets were that the Nazis were German Nationalists, the Soviets considered themselves Internationalists.
I've heard this claim before - but I think its far more likely that 95% of people would be shorthand for 95% of taxpayers, rather than what you suggest.
If you look at Obama's proposal and his response to questions about that he says that while those people don't pay income tax, they do pay Social Security. Social Security withholding appears on your paycheck as FICA (Federal Insurance Contribution Act). So, the OP was correct, a significant part of Obama's tax cut proposal is actually disguised welfare.
Sorry, central planning has failed every time it has been tried. What you are asking for is central planning. You want to give the government more power to tell you how and where you can live your life.
Over my lifetime, the footprint of humans in the U.S. has gone down while the population has gone up. People think that because the areas around the cities are more densely populated than they were 50 years ago that the same has happened everywhere. The thing is that areas that are further from urban centers have even less population than they did 50 years ago. There are areas of the state I live in that had population densities of 1 person per square mile 50 years ago that now have population densities of 1 person per 10 square miles (I may have the actual numbers off, but the ratio is about right).
These people are selling something. In order to get the money from the people they are calling those people need to be able to contact them. It should be trivial to find out who they are by the contact information that they leave. If they don't leave contact information, there are still ways to track the money.
The idea of contacting the news media is a good idea. But first she should contact the person who represents her district in the U.S. Congress and the person who represents her district in the State legislature. Many times these individuals are happy to go to bat for someone like this little old lady. There is a federal law against spoofing caller id.
I think that your reading of the causes of terrorism are seriously flawed. Your premise is that there are many Muslim terrorists because Muslims have been oppressed both by their fellow Muslims and by others(Europe, U.S., etc)for centuries. If Europe and the U.S. pull out of the Middle East, why do you think this would change, since you admit it was occurring before the Europeans became involved?
My feeling is that Apple will allow Psystar to live as long as they stop selling machines with Mac OS X on them.
That is like saying, Generic Car company will allow Tesla Motors to live as long as they stop selling electric cars. Psystar is a company that sells computers with Mac OS X. If they no longer sell computers with Mac OS X on them, they will not survive.
But he has a LONG way to go from a couple of gaffes to the years of systematic idiocy that was Dan Quayle. I am pretty sure that there are entire yearly joke calendars filled with dumb things that Quayle said while he was V.P. (I'm pretty sure such things exist for GWB as well). I doubt you could fill a week with the dumb Biden comments thus far. I watched a brief bit of the VP "debate" and Biden looked smarter to me than Palin did. So aside from some gaffes I don't see him being systematically brain-dead stupid like Quayle was or Dubya is.
I'm sorry, Quayle was a couple of years at most, Biden has been making comments like those quoted above for 35 years.
It sounds like it would be interesting to check the amino acids and genome of the life that exists surrounding the undersea vents. Since our oceans are no longer "prebiotic soup", there probably won't be anything truly remarkable (previously unknown amino acids in the DNA for example), but if there is anything, that would be an incredible breakthrough.
If they found amino acids in the DNA (previously unknown or not) it would be a remarkable discovery. Amino Acids are the building blocks of proteins. DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleic Acid a completely different chemical. To date, no amino acids have been discovered in any DNA.
What, according to the U.S. Constitution, constitutes a declaration of war? I would contend that the "Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002" passes Constitutional muster as a declaration of war by Congress. If Congress did not mean it as a declaration of war than they were derelict in their duty, because the Constitution does not contain a provision for the use of military force (other than in defense of the territory of the U.S.) except for declaration of war. When the U.S. Congress authorizes the President to use military force, they are declaring war.
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You mean he has explicitly said he doesn't regret it and that he wishes he had done more damage?
I do not see any reason why you should have to pay for the health care of that person I met who is dying. I will help him as much as I can, and I will ask others I know to help him. If you wish to help that is wonderful and I will admire you for it. But I do not think it is appropriate to force people to help.
The American Medical Association has this big ad campaign where they are promoting using our tax dollars to pay their members to provide health care under the guise of wanting to help people. If the AMA wants to help people who don't have health insurance, why don't they set up a program where their members volunteer to provide free health care to those individuals? No, the members of the AMA want me to pay for them to help these people and then claim that they are doing it because they care.
Deuteronomy 23:25 says that you can help yourself to the grain you can easily pluck from your neighbor's field, but that you are not allowed to actually harvest it. It doesn't say that you can(or should) harvest some of it to give to the poor.
So, it doesn't contradict the OP's point.
if people didn't have health insurance
durrrrrrrrr
Except that the U.S. had better health care than third world countries before there was such a thing as health insurance. Third world countries don't have lousy health care because they don't have health insurance. Third world countries have lousy health care, because they are third world countries.
If you knew that health care is not the same as health insurance, why did you bring up the lack of health care in third world countries?
go to the third world. see people dying of diseases and conditions 50 cents and 15 minutes of a doctor's time woudl cure
your ignorance is huge
I have been to third world countries. I have seen people suffering from conditions that are easily cured.
But you see they weren't suffering because they lacked health insurance, they were suffering because they lacked health care.
You seem to think that not having health insurance is the same as not having health care.
please, someone point out the fault in my logic:
everyone should have healthcare insurance, correct or no?
NO, actually, no one should have health insurance. If people paid for the cost of their health care out of their own pockets, market forces would come to bear on the price of health care.
If you don't care enough about voting to have valid ID to vote, you don't care enough about voting to really know what/who you are voting for.
I work full-time and make $68,000 per year, and I'm a Democrat.
Wow, you're poor......... for a Democrat.
Um, you do know that the Republican candidate for President is one of the foremost sponsors of legislation to "get money out of politics"? That's why the most recent compaign finance law has his name on it.
Additionally, I have seen several sources where people were able to donate to the Obama campaign with false names and addresses. There is no evidence that the Obama fund raising is made up of small donors. The only thing we know for sure is that is made up of small donations.
Actually, you are wrong about the National Socialist Worker's Party. Ideologically, the Nazis and the Communists couldn't be more divided. That's one of the reasons why Nazi Germany was considered one of the greatest threats to the Soviet Union.
Who considered Nazi Germany "one of the greatest threats to the Soviet Union"?
Stalin considered Hitler to be only world leader he could trust (of course he proved to be wrong). That was why Stalin signed the Nazi-Soviet Pact in early WWII. The difference between the Nazis and the Soviets were that the Nazis were German Nationalists, the Soviets considered themselves Internationalists.
I've heard this claim before - but I think its far more likely that 95% of people would be shorthand for 95% of taxpayers, rather than what you suggest.
If you look at Obama's proposal and his response to questions about that he says that while those people don't pay income tax, they do pay Social Security. Social Security withholding appears on your paycheck as FICA (Federal Insurance Contribution Act). So, the OP was correct, a significant part of Obama's tax cut proposal is actually disguised welfare.
So, you've got yours, now you want to pass laws and "plan" things so other people can't.
Sorry, central planning has failed every time it has been tried. What you are asking for is central planning. You want to give the government more power to tell you how and where you can live your life.
Over my lifetime, the footprint of humans in the U.S. has gone down while the population has gone up. People think that because the areas around the cities are more densely populated than they were 50 years ago that the same has happened everywhere. The thing is that areas that are further from urban centers have even less population than they did 50 years ago. There are areas of the state I live in that had population densities of 1 person per square mile 50 years ago that now have population densities of 1 person per 10 square miles (I may have the actual numbers off, but the ratio is about right).
These people are selling something. In order to get the money from the people they are calling those people need to be able to contact them. It should be trivial to find out who they are by the contact information that they leave. If they don't leave contact information, there are still ways to track the money.
The idea of contacting the news media is a good idea. But first she should contact the person who represents her district in the U.S. Congress and the person who represents her district in the State legislature. Many times these individuals are happy to go to bat for someone like this little old lady. There is a federal law against spoofing caller id.
I think that your reading of the causes of terrorism are seriously flawed. Your premise is that there are many Muslim terrorists because Muslims have been oppressed both by their fellow Muslims and by others(Europe, U.S., etc)for centuries. If Europe and the U.S. pull out of the Middle East, why do you think this would change, since you admit it was occurring before the Europeans became involved?
My feeling is that Apple will allow Psystar to live as long as they stop selling machines with Mac OS X on them.
That is like saying, Generic Car company will allow Tesla Motors to live as long as they stop selling electric cars. Psystar is a company that sells computers with Mac OS X. If they no longer sell computers with Mac OS X on them, they will not survive.
You do know that several of the 9/11 hijackers went to a strip club the night of 9/10?
Yes, that sounds pretty stupid.
But he has a LONG way to go from a couple of gaffes to the years of systematic idiocy that was Dan Quayle. I am pretty sure that there are entire yearly joke calendars filled with dumb things that Quayle said while he was V.P. (I'm pretty sure such things exist for GWB as well). I doubt you could fill a week with the dumb Biden comments thus far. I watched a brief bit of the VP "debate" and Biden looked smarter to me than Palin did. So aside from some gaffes I don't see him being systematically brain-dead stupid like Quayle was or Dubya is.
I'm sorry, Quayle was a couple of years at most, Biden has been making comments like those quoted above for 35 years.
It sounds like it would be interesting to check the amino acids and genome of the life that exists surrounding the undersea vents. Since our oceans are no longer "prebiotic soup", there probably won't be anything truly remarkable (previously unknown amino acids in the DNA for example), but if there is anything, that would be an incredible breakthrough.
If they found amino acids in the DNA (previously unknown or not) it would be a remarkable discovery. Amino Acids are the building blocks of proteins. DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleic Acid a completely different chemical. To date, no amino acids have been discovered in any DNA.
Saying they are "far more facist (sic) than communist" is like saying that a color is "far more aquamarine than green".
What, according to the U.S. Constitution, constitutes a declaration of war? I would contend that the "Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002" passes Constitutional muster as a declaration of war by Congress. If Congress did not mean it as a declaration of war than they were derelict in their duty, because the Constitution does not contain a provision for the use of military force (other than in defense of the territory of the U.S.) except for declaration of war. When the U.S. Congress authorizes the President to use military force, they are declaring war.
John McCain knows how to use email. He doesn't because injuries he sustained as a POW in Vietnam make it painful for him to type.