Health care a human right?

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[RoyalDemonforChrist]

the best intentions have been behind the greatest human atrocities. there is no utopia for man. its a bedtime story.

[CheapLaborCapitalist]

Join the Army. They'll give you one.

[tripfunkmonster]

@MzBUZZKILINGTON: China never instituted socialist policies - they were always a Statist Dictatorship under Mao. Now they are a Capitalist Statist Dictatorship. Now it's their turn to start a middle class to feed off as Wall St. gets rid of the American middle class who got too greedy. Imagine - wanting democracy AND Capitalism.

[MzBUZZKILINGTON]

@MzBUZZKILINGTON I was replying to your statement... In the 1930s & 40's, people knew that socialism was a system in which a middle class could thrive. And thanks for agreeing with me.

[tripfunkmonster]

There is plenty of FAT to cut off our psychotic military budget. Enough to pay for healthcare - especially if we take away the unnecessary added expense of insurance company suits living large. They shouldn't be feeding off the misfortune of fellow Americans anyway.

[tripfunkmonster]

@MzBUZZKILINGTON:There was no middle class in China to disappear in the 1970s. What is the connection you're making to healthcare?

[MzBUZZKILINGTON]

She talks about profit likes it's a bad thing. Its nice to know she is not being hypocritical because she doesn't make one single cent, EVER.

[MzBUZZKILINGTON]

@tripfunkmonster That's right because when China moved away from socialist policies in thr 70's the middle class almost disappeared. Oh that's right China's market policies created one.

[MzBUZZKILINGTON]

So how is our country going to pay for all of this, we all ready now that even our current system is unsustainable.

[guyjohn59]

@tripfunkmonster I'll just echo my previous comment. You are never going to be asked to swallow a pill of 'socialism', so the word is meaningless. What happens is bills get passed, which people who call themselves socialists, conservatives, liberals, etc. all are for, and then when they turn out horrible and bankrupt, and cause infinitely more problems, the so-called advocates just go on to advocating something else.

[tripfunkmonster]

@guyjohn59: In the 1930s & 40's, people knew that socialism was a system in which a middle class could thrive. It meant that a small group of "elitists" couldn't control a large group of working people. Several leaders (Hitler, Stalin, Mao) used language to manipulate people into thinking they would give them one thing - but in actuality they would get something very different. Here in the U.S., we decided to paint socialism as the work of Satan. That's why people have an irrational hatred of it

[tripfunkmonster]

@guyjohn59: Oh, you were making a connection of healthcare to Socialism? (Under Stalin, Russia was a dictatorship-not socialist) In 1977 a Gallup pole showed that 77% of Americans thought healthcare was guaranteed by the Constitution. You can think that means people don't know the constitution, but I think it says a lot about what's happened to us in the Fascist Era. People used to think a democracy was meant to take care of us. Now, people only want money - even if it buys nothing but crap.