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To: Lysandru

With apologies these people wanting to protect their wealth are not one step from the poor house. The country where they made their money is worth some extra bucks. People give a lot more for their country than money.


45 posted on 06/15/2011 10:19:52 AM PDT by ex-snook ("Above all things, truth beareth away the victory")
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To: ex-snook
People give a lot more for their country than money.

Whose country is it now though? A country that confiscates the fruits of the labors of the hard working to bestow largess on the lazy isn't what the founding fathers envisioned. ALl of the rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights are basically negative ie the right to be left alone to do you thing.

The new "rights" like the so-called "right to health care" are positive (but not in a good way) meaning that you are actually owed somthing. However if you have a right to something (healthcare welfare) then that so-called right creates an OBLIGATION for someone else to provide that for you.

Let's take health care for an example. Suppose you are found with severe liver disease, and you're black and young* so that you will be a candidate for a transplant under the new rules. Then someone has to supply a liver, and a transpant team has to do the work to install the new liver, and the hospital has to provide the space and supplies for them to do the work, and someone has to provide your anti-rejection drugs. The liver isn't free. There is a cost associated with acquiring it. The transplant team consists of a number of highly trained individuals. Are they expected to donate their time? The hospital cost money to build and run. etc. the average cost for a liver transplant is around $400,000 so the GOVERNMENT says someone OWES you $400,000 simply because you were either stupid and indulged in a lifestyle that killed your liver or you had the misfortune to contract a disease that killed yout liver.

As a taxpayer I have to cough up my share of the $400,000. Why should your misfortune be my misfortune too? WHen you were making money (if you ever did) did you share any of it with me? Nope.

If I wanted to donate to charity that would be one thing, but to rob me at gunpoint to care for you is no different than any other sort of robbery.

What is the definition of a slave? One whose labors benefit someone else without any choice in the matter. Slavery is alive and well in the USA today.

*Several years ago I was reading a publication from Hopkins hospital bemoaning the fact that the "government" didn't pay welfare mother enough to pay for all of the transplant drugs for their offspring. It cited a case of a young teen who had one liver transplant that failed because his mother wasn't given enough money to pay for the anti-rejection drugs (read she spent the money on recreational drugs for herself). he was given a second liver, and that one failed too for the same reason. They were getting ready to give him a third liver when he died and according to the hospital's publication because the government wasn't spending enough of someone else's money. Reading between the lines the kid had hep C (probably from an early atempt to inject recreational drugs - although the source of the hep C is just speculation on my part)

52 posted on 06/15/2011 11:12:12 AM PDT by from occupied ga (your own government is your most dangerous enemy)
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