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"I also realize that "handouts" tend to create perverse incentives that can perpetuate poverty. However, the poverty gap is still so steep in this country (as compared to that of other similarly developed countries) that I cannot understand why the concept of a safety net for the most vulnerable is controversial... - Healthcare policy."
Americans are the most generous people in the world. And we do have numerous safety nets for those less fortunate. We even understand the need. Some great American - I've forgotten who - once said we need a safety net but not a hammock.
Good intentions are taken advantage of by those who try to beat the system. Study the effects socialism has had in the countries you have mentioned above.
You will find a greater disparity between the haves and the havenots under socialism. The problem in that system is that the havenots have less opportunity to rise. Not so under capitalism - where people can one day reap the benefits of their hard work.
If you lived in Tennessee you would witness the adverse effect state health care has had on our state's economy.
Then you are no Bill/Hillary Clinton.
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I posted 2 or 3 times at DU about 3 or 4 years ago, then I figured "Why waste time there, where the folks just keep rehashing the same tired arguments."
The discussions on FR have so much more depth and breadth and have better research to back them up.
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Very high infant mortality since 1973!
Welcome to FR. We may disagree on many things, agree on others.....but polite dialogue is always welcome in my book.
You sir, are no doubt, ugly. I would venture to say that you are so ugly, both in mind, soul and outward appearance as to be revolting to the sight. Gut-wrenching, barf-bag filling, hang-a-pork-chop-around-your-neck-to-get-the-dog-to-play-with-you ugly. Mind-numbingly ugly. So ugly that you could look the medusa square in the eye and turn HER into stone. Naw, I bet you're even uglier than that. So ugly that in comparison to your visage, a bucket-full of penguine crap would be regarded as an artful masterpiece. Monumentally ugly. So ugly that If I had to look directly at you, my autonomic reflexes would cause me to soil my drawers. Worse - if your dead, decrepid corpse was fed into a tree-chipper, the chipper would malfunction and barf out tree-chipper teeth. Black-holes would refuse to alow you past their event-horizon for fear of contamination. THAT's how UGLY you are.
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Furthermore, you are a craven scumbag not worthy to lick the sweat from the festering testicles of a dead, decomposing camel.
Good post. The responses should be interesting; and predictable. I wish you well.
Well, just hang in there. We're providing those for Seniore Fox, too. We're sending all of our jobs down there.
So you didn't know about all the illegals drawing disability checks from SSI?
"the poverty gap is still so steep in this country (as compared to that of other similarly developed countries) that I cannot understand why the concept of a safety net for the most vulnerable is controversial"
Really? I can't understand how anyone familiar with the US' and states' welfare programs can continue to claim that there is no safety net for the most vulnerable. But that's what we expect from a demagogue.
The so-called "poverty gap" means that we don't have a Handicapper General who tries to homogenize and level everyone in order to establish an oppressive, single-party state.
Gustavo.. you mean to tell me that THIS is your third post, and it is an opus?!
*random twitches slowly building up to full out guttural laughter*
Gustavo, you.. don't have a history for us to remember, so you will be easily forgotten.
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-I make an important distinction between law breakers that are pursuing a better way of life and most often are otherwise hard working and law abiding-
Congratulations on making distinctions; however, your "law abiding" lawbreakers put quite a strain on our infrastructure, causing even more to suffer. There will be no thanks coming your way.