Rough Rider
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You're right, because I don't agree with you, I don't know anything. How very convenient.
I provide a service and you pay for it.
You're welcome
Apparently it's irony only you see
The Army is open to virtually anyone. That is the real world.
Ummm no. Not everyone can pass a physical or the educational requirements, although the latter has been relaxed. You neglected to mention that you actually weren't paying for your health care. It's included. And yet you claimed you "could afford" it on your 24k salary. Pretty much a bold faced lie.
Completely disingenuous. Speaks volumes about you. You also forgot to mention that you can shop at the PX....
I love it when these right wing libertarians pop up and you find out that they are on the government payroll. Its too sweet.
The military in this country is not a monolith; there's room for all kinds of opinions.
Are liberals this closed minded? So far, all signs point to yes.
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.
It certainly explains how you can afford health insurance. Try living in the real world.
wrong. I have no interest in force feeding anybody. Why is it necessary for you to create a perverted Frankenstien monster version of others beliefs in the desperate hope of elevating your own?
It's not a matter of disagreeing or agreeing. Making a government that handles your needs is not a good way to form a working economy. It's not a good way to form a responsible society. The fact is your needs are what drives you, without them, what is making you get out of your house? Needs are the life blood of any economy. But another reason you keep it just to protections of rights and liberties is because what you desire has no real way to be defined and any service, be it a cell phone, healthcare, or housing can become a need if people become dependent on it. Is it really something you consider wise to allow the government to control any service that reaches that level?
Your response here sets up a straw man. No one other than true communists or socialists believe that we should have a government that handles all your needs. So you are attacking an argument that very few people make. Broadly, what the majority of people believe, and what the majority of economists believe, is that a successful market economic system requires some safety nets provided by the public sector. Programs like unemployment insurance, health coverage for the poor, some form of a disability program, and so form of retirement assistance (possibly means tested), and some type of publicly subsidized health coverage for seniors (possibly means tested). These are components of every successful state on the planet. The only modern industrialized society on the planet that leaves this completely to the private sector is Hong Kong, but the catch is that Hong Kong requires residence to purchase disability insurance, health insurance, retirement investments / annuities, and a private sector provided unemployment insurance.
This libertarian utopia that guys like Ron Paul promote is not practiced anywhere.
Your response here sets up a straw man. No one other than true communists or socialists believe that we should have a government that handles all your needs.
Broadly, what the majority of people believe, and what the majority of economists believe, is that a successful market economic system requires some safety nets provided by the public sector. Programs like unemployment insurance, health coverage for the poor, some form of a disability program, and so form of retirement assistance (possibly means tested), and some type of publicly subsidized health coverage for seniors (possibly means tested).
These are components of every successful state on the planet. The only modern industrialized society on the planet that leaves this completely to the private sector is Hong Kong, but the catch is that Hong Kong requires residence to purchase disability insurance, health insurance, retirement investments / annuities, and a private sector provided unemployment insurance.
This libertarian utopia that guys like Ron Paul promote is not practiced anywhere.
Lol, in the real world he would have his employer handle it. You kind of fail at this.
Churches, charities and friends? And he claimed this was his friend and so he helped raise money on the internet. Other people's money. Did you donate Ron?
Wow. just wow. Do ANY of you right wingers actually work in the real world? Most folks bear a majority of the health care insurance bill now. Try to keep up. Or better yet, get a job!
It's just a matter of which God you look at. Mine is much closer to the God of the OLD Testament, not the wussie one from the New Testament.
Some of us would have no problem with that. If you can't find a job that provides insurance at age 30, maybe you should just "go away".
"What you do unto the least of these, you have done unto me".
-Jesus Christ
I'm not even sure Ron Paul would seek to impose a "Paulian" society if he actually got to the White House.
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