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Hmmm...I'm not rich and I'm still against a national healthcare system. But I guess that's just because I've been so propagandized against it and I'm too stupid to have an independent thought of my own. It couldn't be that I think that there is plenty of opportunity in America for people to succeed, or that a national healthcare system would dramatically lower our quality of care, could it?
Wealth, unfortunately, is relative. The reason that Americans can afford to sit in their houses and play their playstations is because people all over the world are poor. It's an impossibility to "give the entire world the same comfort of living." Sad but true fact. I admire that you're trying to change it, but I think you need to understand a little better what that would require.
I'm exceedingly exhausted of the extreme left wing that is so convinced that they're they ONLY ones who are smart enough to avoid being led about by propaganda and fear.
You talk about how the Republican party is ruled by irrational fear, and then you mention how you're scared of the abolition of the minimum wage. Where the hell did you hear about that? Want to provide some evidence to back up your claim? In New York, they just signed a bill to increase the minimum wage to 7.15 an hour by 2007. And there is absolutely no empirical evidence to suggest that privitizing SS will cause an increase in Senior Citizen poverty. Sounds to me like you're the one who's letting propaganda and fear rule your agenda.
I'm not going to tell you that you're naive because you're a high schooler, because I was there a few years ago too, and I hated it then as well. I just think that once you have some real world experience, you will recognize that it is an inherent impossibility for a socialist economy to exist.
Wealth, unfortunately, is relative. The reason that Americans can afford to sit in their houses and play their playstations is because people all over the world are poor. It's an impossibility to "give the entire world the same comfort of living." Sad but true fact. I admire that you're trying to change it, but I think you need to understand a little better what that would require.
I'm exceedingly exhausted of the extreme left wing that is so convinced that they're they ONLY ones who are smart enough to avoid being led about by propaganda and fear.
You talk about how the Republican party is ruled by irrational fear, and then you mention how you're scared of the abolition of the minimum wage. Where the hell did you hear about that? Want to provide some evidence to back up your claim? In New York, they just signed a bill to increase the minimum wage to 7.15 an hour by 2007. And there is absolutely no empirical evidence to suggest that privitizing SS will cause an increase in Senior Citizen poverty. Sounds to me like you're the one who's letting propaganda and fear rule your agenda.
I'm not going to tell you that you're naive because you're a high schooler, because I was there a few years ago too, and I hated it then as well. I just think that once you have some real world experience, you will recognize that it is an inherent impossibility for a socialist economy to exist.