"If you think it's a socialist plot, give up your federal health care"

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Senator Dick Durbin asks Republicans who oppose health reform to give up the health plans they and their families receive from the federal government as members of Congress: "The federal employees health benefit program that we enjoy as individuals and want for our families is all we are asking for in this bill for families across America. If you think it is a socialist plot and it's wrong, for goodness sakes, drop out of the federal employees health benefit program. But if you think it is good enough for your family, shouldn't our health insurance be good enough for the rest of America?"

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[Subterfugitive]

@varmfarm I don't want the Federal Government to provide for ME. I want the tax dollars that I pay to go to ensure my fellow Americans are healthy, educated, and productive. I have a college degree, great job, and above average healthcare. I'm not looking for anything to provided to ME. I believe in my country. Almost everyone I know wants their tax dollars to go towards universal healthcare because it is the right thing to do. We openly submit to paying for it! I work 10-12 hours a day!

[bookish01]

Gee... lets try to guess who the dill weeds are who voted thumbs down.... hmmm...

it's the same old Republicon mantra "What's good for me and mine is good for me and mine" and in the moral words (& world) of Dick Cheney... the rest of you can "go fu*k yourselves."

[erichargrave12]

Brilliantly said.

[jandean61]

OBAMA 2012 !

[NUTCASE71733]

@vegaskidd

There's nuts and bad ideas on both sides of the spectrum. That's why the sane people in both groups want america to go back to being centrist in political policy like it was before the Civil War. After that the government began to become corupt as politicians began being bought out to let certain groups get away with all sorts of dirty deeds. And it wasn't until after Theodore Roosavelt that most of it was fixed. And now we have idiots like Beck saying that he was a traitor.

[gixaw]

Mr. Durbin got laid that night

[alwayssmile4u66]

Dick Durbin is a horrible man! A true reflection of how uneducated his voters are!

[daobagua]

@JonahtheFigPucker Hmm. if workers were given less then it takes to survive and produce then the workers would disappear. But I will assume for the moment that you were being hyperbolic.

If you take from Marx's law of wages (iron law of wages), then I have the following reply:

1. The iron law assumes that laborers are no better then animals. Who will simply reproduce to their financial limits.

2. Big business is big only because it caters to the masses. Meaning goods are shared by all.

Cheers

[daobagua]

@vegaskidd Good on you. Now if only the free market insurances were not controlled government supported monopolies. Then we would have a real case to compare.

Cheers.

[daobagua]

@Subterfugitive So if I wanted to donate all of my money (minus basic living necessities) to some poor families in Vietnam, would it be right of me to get the government to tax you to support my charity. What if you rather support charities that support poor Americans? What if you rather support some poor family members? I think this problem is a little more complicated then what you asserted in your reply to "varmfarm" 8 months ago.

Cheers.

P.S. My examples are mostly true in my case.