Minas Thirith wrote:Well while your at it please tell me what you believe in, religion, evolution, politcs?
Since i'm still gathering the finishing touches to the next flame thread this would be interesting for it.
QFT. This statement/question reads as you wanting to flame my beliefs in subsequent threads.
Minas Thirith wrote:Also i think your quite wrong about my age, since there are only 2 SWGO members from Europe that are older then me, and one of them if i'm not mistaken, hasn't posted here yet, wich is probably a good choice if he has to read all the giberish in this thread.
You posted previously about getting lessons in school reviewing President Obama's Job plan. This combined with other posts lead me to believe you are not yet of voting age.
Minas Thirith wrote:You have failed to read the title dread, this isn't only about YOUR politics.
Is Ron Paul on the ballot in a European election I wasn't aware of?
Kren wrote:ProfessorDreadNaught wrote:I believe our founding documents spelled out the ideal system for supporting and protecting our individual basic rights and that through the generations it has been subverted.
So how is the average American to change this, let's keep it related to Health Care to start with?
By electing Representatives who understand the proper role of government and its limitations on interfering with individuals in our society. Become involved with the issues and help develop plans and make policies to make it easier and more cost effective to provide health care to those that need it.
Health insurance isn't the answer. All insurance is gambling. You and I bet we will pay in less than we will use and the insurance company (properly so) sets the rates so you WON'T put in less than you use and will even cover the bozos who do manage to use more than they pay. THAT is why
health insurance is so high.
Health Care costs are high for other reasons. As I mentioned before, exempt non-profit health care providers and their organizations/facilities from lawsuits for free medical care. Create tax incentives for sponsorship of groups like these. Encourage Health Savings plans and incorporate them into retirement savings protections. Require reimbursement of all NIH grant monies spent on commercially exploited pharmaceuticals. Tie drug patent expiration to some percentage over break-even R&D costs. Limit malpractice lawsuit awards to the amount of money the plaintiff was life insured for.
How about any of THOSE ideas. They are designed to reduce the cost of care making it more affordable (free even) without taking more money from the people who don't use it.
Beyond Health Care, force your representatives to practice limited government. Judge each new proposal and reauthorization with a moral litmus test. "Does this proposal/agency/rule/bill reduce the rights of the individual to benefit the majority? If yes, is the breach mitigated by providing protection to an equal or greater number of individuals rights?" If the answer is "No" to the first question then the bill should be voted on based on its merits. If "Yes" to the second question, the same should happen. Otherwise the bill oversteps the authority of the government as established by the people and should NOT be considered. Other avenues to achieve the objective should be discovered and implemented (again according to a proposals merits)
Finally, free health care breeds apathy. Free ANYTHING breeds apathy unless society attaches a stigma to it. A country where health care is guaranteed should be the healthiest country on earth. Smokers and drinkers and overweight people should be shunned for taking for granted the amazing gift bestowed upon them. Fast food and sweets should be disdained for the harmful effects they have. People should be embarrassed to admit they saw a doctor for an illness or some other treatment. To be given something so valuable for free and not appreciate the gift enough to do what you can to not need it is in my way of thinking immoral. (remember I pay almost $20,000 a year for the same thing)
The countries that have implemented universal health care have lost that stigma for the "entitled." The U.S. is losing its battle against this kind of cultural shift and we dare not.
Swine Flu wrote:Hey, Dread, while you're at it, please tell us your views on religion, evolution and politics?
Post your beliefs on each topic in its own thread and I will either choose to support or disagree.
WD-40 wrote:ProfessorDreadNaught wrote:I believe our founding documents spelled out the ideal system for supporting and protecting our individual basic rights and that through the generations it has been subverted.
The Gays, the Godless, and the Civil Libertarians are well underway of seeing to its destruction.
I don't know how tongue in cheek your response was, but I hope by now you understand my view on the supremacy of individual rights. From that you should probably deduce that I don't give a crap what sex you sleep with or even what kind of sex you have (adults only please). I don't care if you pray or not or who to.
True Civil Libertarians believe as I do and are NOT the idiots who claim I can't have a voluntary prayer before a football game because the team and the game are school sponsored. Those morons have things twisted and should proclaim their extreme atheism and not cloak their efforts as protecting individual rights.
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