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Originally Posted by jackson33
...if Bill Gates needs a new house, i am sorry its up to him to buy it. if you need a new liver, this should be up to you. if a person is a citizen and has not achieved whatever i have, its not up to me to provide him/her what ever they consider needs....
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You may technically have a point there, but...
BUT... I don't want to live in a country where people are dying in the streets. Where children are starving and begging for food. Where people can justify crime because their babies need bread and milk right now. Where the disabled cannot even get or keep a job because a wheelchair is just too damn expensive. I do not and WILL NOT live in a country where dead bodies must be picked up off the streets and out of tenement shacks each morning.
Do YOU want to live in a country like that? Perhaps you can afford to live in a gated community (with friendly armed guards!) so you don't have to see the death and suffering down town. Good for you!! I can afford it, too, just barely. But <<I>> would still know that the death and suffering was going on. And I refuse to live with that.
There is a thin, thin line between Laissez-faire Capitalism and heartless fascist assholism.
