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[woohzal]

Goodness sakes, I have poured through comments by so called literate, intelligent, free thinking people.

I live in a country that has free health care, heavily discounted medicines & anyone can walk into a hospital or Doctors surgery & get the help they need.

We don't sleep on the floors or outside in mosquito tents. We don't have to call the government to arrange a hospital stay.

@Alexthestreet: Tyranny & anarchy ? Let's talk American gun reform.

Oh and @Alexthestreet

[smudoshi]

Do us all a favor, my patriot friend, and exercise your second amendment rights on your own head.

[alexthestreet]

What gives you the right to have health care given to you?

[Stranahan]

It's call 'the social contract' - look into it.

It's the same thing that give us the right to have fire, police and roads 'given' to us.

[alexthestreet]

The social contract is the very thing that I'm worried about when it comes to health care.

Giving government the right to prod into our lives and "provide" health "care" is a form of the Leviathan which Hobbes was talking about, and Locke later renounced arguing a smaller limited government. If you read Locks arguments against the strong central state, It is easy to see the flaw in Hobbes' Leviathan.

[alexthestreet]

If you look at a Social Contract as a scale, the more unbalanced the scale the harder to keep security, liberty, and happiness. This can be seen with overly tyrannical(where the government has too much power)and anarchic governments(the State of Nature, where the people have too much power).With the government's promises as the weight on the citizen's side and the citizen's promises as the weight on the government's side, when the scale becomes unbalanced(as with Government Provided Heath Care).

[alexthestreet]

Heath Care's costs especially when determined by corrupt politicians instead of you and me(supply and demand), will tip the scales into tyranny, or anarchy.

[Stranahan]

It has not worked out that way in the rest of the world....

But feel free to ignore reality and focus instead on your wacked out, fear based theory. Much neater!

[ProgressiveAction10]

it will take more than a few months to undo 8 years of relentless damage.

[trashboysj]

*Over 90% of the troops are still in Iraq.

* Gitmo is still open, and if it closes, its residents will can be held indefinitely, even if they are found not guilty of the charges which brought them there.

* Hooray for Lily Ledbetter and Embryonic Stem Cell Research.

But supporting DOMA, supporting DADT, supporting Bush-era surveillance and secrecy theories were choices made by Obama. The wrong choices. Intentionally going backwards is not EVER going to get us where claim we want to be.

[DirtyThoughts68]

Brilliant!!!

[tarahu]

i get dissapointed with Obama by the minute, not a single promise fulfilled, not even a little try, only for his buddies in wall street,

[LTMidknite]

Not a single promise fulfilled? What are you talking about?

* Closing Gitmo

* Signing Lily Ledbetter Act

* Removing ban on Embryonic Stem Cell Research

* Troops out of Iraqi Cities.

I seem to recall every president for the past 200+ years has had at least 2 years into his term to fulfill promises. Why does Obama get only 6 months?

[upabittoolate]

you & i both know why obama only gets 6 months: genetics.

[Bubba186]

time to quit kissing republican ass and pass single payer