You're part of the problem. Look at your two factions:
social justice, equality, privacy, and caring for the poor
and
religion in schools, small government, privatization of all government roles, and a huge military
I believe in social justice... I just don't believe government is capable of achieving it. And "caring for the poor" is a subset of it.
A big government capable of enacting "social justice" cannot allow us privacy. It's impossible. We're forced to tell the government exactly how much money we make and what we do with it to pay for the programs, and now that we're forced to buy health insurance they demand to know everything about our health. In order to support "equality", our businesses have to tell the government who they're hiring and firing, how their buildings are designed, who their customers are, etc.
The crazy "right wing Republican" who wants both small government and a huge military is also a contradiction in terms.
No, a strong government is a bad government as long as there are bad people who abuse power... which is forever. If you don't trust individuals to make their own decisions, how are those same people given positions of power going to suddenly become righteous?
If those incidents were really very common, don't you think Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama would be gleefully listing them off every day? News flash: there are bad, greedy people out there. Some work for insurance companies. And some work for the government.
So your stance is the same as the President's: "I know I lied. I had to, so I could be reelected. You are too stupid to make your own health decisions."
Lots of people lost the insurance that was helping them treat their preexisting conditions, like cancer. The cancer treatment was what was important to them. They needed to stay alive this year, because it won't matter if they get free Crestor for their high LDL if they're dead from bladder cancer next week. It won't matter if they have pre and post-natal coverage if they're past menopause. This is what they're being forced to pay for, because some politicians decided "one size fits all, I know better that you proles" was perfectly reasonable.
Yes, because bad guys line up to take you on one-by-one, and wait patiently while you reload. That's why I carry a flintlock pistol; sometimes they die of old age waiting for me to reload.
Then you see why I prefer capitalism, because if we're going to have problems with immoral people, I'd rather have them in a free society than an oppressed one.
I'm pretty tired of cretins like you holding the Dissembler in Chief's water. He lied to get votes. There would have been political repercussions if he'd admitted that many plans would be cancelled anyway because NO CHANGES WHATSOEVER would be allowed in order to have them grandfathered in. That's absurd, when every year our costs go up just because of inflation. He said, "you can keep your plan. PERIOD" when he should have said, "ASTERISK".
They weren't being screwed before. Many of these people had preexisting conditions that were being taken care of for a reasonable cost. Now, their plans are priced for things like gynecological exams for men and prostate exams for women. People treating their cancer are either going to go broke, rely on us to cover the cost, or simply die (plus, be taxed for the privilege). Is that an improvement?
Capitalism just tries to take the things which are shared resources, and make sure someone gets to it first and claims ownership of it.
A resource can't be shared if no one claims ownership of it. So is your solution that no one is allowed to claim ownership? Or is it that the State will claim ownership?
In a system where property is not allowed, what is the motivation to be productive? An interest in the common good? That demands altruism. Without individual moral principles, the common good fails... and look, here is the tragedy of the commons again.
I guess what we've discovered here is that both capitalism and a demand economy fail when people are immoral.
You act as if there were no regulation of the health care industry. Indeed, it's probably the most regulated in the world. So what are the free-market forces which you claim are responsible for this issue?
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I believe in social justice... I just don't believe government is capable of achieving it. And "caring for the poor" is a subset of it.
A big government capable of enacting "social justice" cannot allow us privacy. It's impossible. We're forced to tell the government exactly how much money we make and what we do with it to pay for the programs, and now that we're forced to buy health insurance they demand to know everything about our health. In order to support "equality", our businesses have to tell the government who they're hiring and firing, how their buildings are designed, who their customers are, etc.
The crazy "right wing Republican" who wants both small government and a huge military is also a contradiction in terms.
No, a strong government is a bad government as long as there are bad people who abuse power... which is forever. If you don't trust individuals to make their own decisions, how are those same people given positions of power going to suddenly become righteous?
The "Wars" on drugs and poverty assured that.
Are you claiming that those crazy right-wingers purposely DOSed the site, or that their mere THOUGHTCRIME caused it to go down?
You are mentally ill.
Someone must have mistakenly thought you were criticizing Obamacare and had a knee-jerk downmod.
Apparently he's stationed at Bad Command.
Ironically, Fdr delegitimized democracy with his extra-constitutional actions during the Depression and, especially, WWII.
Cool story, bro.
If those incidents were really very common, don't you think Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama would be gleefully listing them off every day? News flash: there are bad, greedy people out there. Some work for insurance companies. And some work for the government.
So your stance is the same as the President's: "I know I lied. I had to, so I could be reelected. You are too stupid to make your own health decisions."
Lots of people lost the insurance that was helping them treat their preexisting conditions, like cancer. The cancer treatment was what was important to them. They needed to stay alive this year, because it won't matter if they get free Crestor for their high LDL if they're dead from bladder cancer next week. It won't matter if they have pre and post-natal coverage if they're past menopause. This is what they're being forced to pay for, because some politicians decided "one size fits all, I know better that you proles" was perfectly reasonable.
Here's a simulation of what that would be like.
It says freedom everywhere... but most of the world prefers submission.
Yes, because bad guys line up to take you on one-by-one, and wait patiently while you reload. That's why I carry a flintlock pistol; sometimes they die of old age waiting for me to reload.
Then you see why I prefer capitalism, because if we're going to have problems with immoral people, I'd rather have them in a free society than an oppressed one.
I'd say it's an embarrassment when everyone from the Country Music Awards to Saturday Night Live is lampooning it.
Thanks, Nancy "We have to pass the bill so you can see what is in it" Pelosi.
Should over three years been enough time to build it?
... but not everyone's. It's because of uninformed, selfish fools like you that we're stuck with this mess.
I'm pretty tired of cretins like you holding the Dissembler in Chief's water. He lied to get votes. There would have been political repercussions if he'd admitted that many plans would be cancelled anyway because NO CHANGES WHATSOEVER would be allowed in order to have them grandfathered in. That's absurd, when every year our costs go up just because of inflation. He said, "you can keep your plan. PERIOD" when he should have said, "ASTERISK".
They weren't being screwed before. Many of these people had preexisting conditions that were being taken care of for a reasonable cost. Now, their plans are priced for things like gynecological exams for men and prostate exams for women. People treating their cancer are either going to go broke, rely on us to cover the cost, or simply die (plus, be taxed for the privilege). Is that an improvement?
There are zero free-market ideologues in the Democratic Party. Zero. And the ACA was passed without a singe Republican vote.
They had 3.5 years. That's only a hurry in geological terms.
Presumably, compared to the "warm" analog video he gets from his Super Beta player over his $500 oxygen-free gold-plated 10ga cables.
A resource can't be shared if no one claims ownership of it. So is your solution that no one is allowed to claim ownership? Or is it that the State will claim ownership?
In a system where property is not allowed, what is the motivation to be productive? An interest in the common good? That demands altruism. Without individual moral principles, the common good fails... and look, here is the tragedy of the commons again.
I guess what we've discovered here is that both capitalism and a demand economy fail when people are immoral.
You act as if there were no regulation of the health care industry. Indeed, it's probably the most regulated in the world. So what are the free-market forces which you claim are responsible for this issue?
Just because your university was phasing it out didn't mean the platform was dead, did it?