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Healthcare: Give it to everyone as a government program.

sfvpool comments on Dec 15, 2018:

That would be a violation of my rights. It would be paid for with tax dollars -- stolen from me and every other tax payer.

TomMcGiverin replies on Dec 16, 2018:

@sfvpool You are clearly a Libertarian, a political philosophy that I hate. Partly because that group's values say that taxes are wrong and amount to stealing from citizens. As someone once said, taxes are the cost of having a civilized society, which is something I value having or trying to have. But it seems to me that Libs like you would rather we go back to some kind of feudalism, where a few people own everything and the rest barely scrape by as serfs, or robber-baron capitalism, which we aren't that far from returning to, because you want to have all the rights and freedoms under the sun, but don't want to share any of your money or stuff with others. Sounds like a very immature, selfish philosophy and that's why I hate it. Fortunately, society as a whole is a little more grown up than that. If you think not sharing is someday going to pay off and get the rich to let you into their club or economic class, you are wrong, as George Carlin used to say. They ain't going to let you in and those that aspire to it will always be wannabees.

Healthcare: Give it to everyone as a government program.

sfvpool comments on Dec 15, 2018:

That would be a violation of my rights. It would be paid for with tax dollars -- stolen from me and every other tax payer.

TomMcGiverin replies on Dec 16, 2018:

@sfvpool In the old days, before the Great Depression in the US, all charity and anti-poverty programs were thru churches and were modeled on the British system of the "deserving and undeserving poor" being screened and then helped, if found deserving, by the churches. I can only imagine how humiliating and cruel this system was. Then the Depression happened and the vast majority of Americans were desperately poor, so the old system was no longer feasible or appropriate to deal with the situation and government stepped in to take over poverty programs as all the old illusions of the masses about never ending up that poor or needing long term help to survive were all swept away. Suddenly socialism started looking pretty good to tens of millions of people, along with the idea of demanding that the poor be treated with dignity and the ruling class chose these govt. programs and new laws that gave dignity to poor people over the threat of socialism and revolution. Too bad how much of that has been forgotten and how the old ideas about deserving and undeserving poor are fully back in vogue.

Healthcare: Give it to everyone as a government program.

wordywalt comments on Dec 15, 2018:

Why not? This is exactly what every other industrialized nation is doing -- and it works and reduces overall medical costs. It is amazing to me that we have not found the intelligence and morality to do it decades ago.

TomMcGiverin replies on Dec 16, 2018:

Because America is too damn individualistic in its culture and most Americans do not feel we are really in it together. Otherwise, they would demand that both major parties support it and refuse to vote for anyone who did not support it. If there were ever issues worth being a single-issue voter on, it would be this and ending our permanent wars (in the Middle East and Afghanistan) for oil and empire.

All women want these days is sex. Men just want to snuggle and talk about feelings!

48thRonin comments on Dec 11, 2018:

Well ( cough ) so many people pushed for gender reversal so Mazel Tov ?

TomMcGiverin replies on Dec 16, 2018:

@jorj You have a good point. Boys and young men do at some point need a male role model to teach them about the dating game-rules, strategy, etc. It would not necessarily have to be the father or even an uncle. I think for many guys my age who did not get any help on this from their fathers, the guys end up being mentored by their male peers, like we often see on TV or the movies. So it's not always hopeless. In my case what little I've learned has been from same age male peers. Question is, when the male is mentored by same age peers, how appropriate and useful will the info be?

All women want these days is sex. Men just want to snuggle and talk about feelings!

Charity comments on Dec 11, 2018:

Hubs doesn't really cuddle much and isn't into sex as much as I am. He's such a sports nut...ESPN, NFL, NBA, NASCAR and ALL things soccer. Maybe if I get a football jersey for myself and put on a pair of his soccer socks he'll notice me. Meh, I loathe football. Hence, why we have agreed upon ...

TomMcGiverin replies on Dec 16, 2018:

You sound like the old joke about the football widow wife standing naked in front of the TV to get her hubby's attention during the big game for some halftime sex, lol!

I smoke, I drink, I do drugs does that make me undesirable, unreliable, disloyal, unloving and ...