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Originally posted by brianna
I certainly cannot pursue happiness if i am dead (nevermind pursuing life). We have made many attempts to even the scales in this society (public education, public access to courts and representation, public access to highways and transportation, public access to information (via libraries), etc) and I see no way that health care is different -- in fact I think health care is probably a more important pursuit than the others mentioned since it is literally a mater of life and death.
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This is exactly the point I was trying to make last night. I find it incredibly two-faced that people can take some services for granted when they themselves benefit from them, but then turn around and argue against services that might benefit someone else more than themselves.
The government has no business propping up the capitalists' beloved economy by providing them the means to convey their products to market, but capitalists assume that they have an inalienable right to such entitlements. And never mind that they "earn" their outrageous incomes by exploiting our planet's finite resources at an appalling pace even as they spit in the faces of the poor faceless slobs who suffer on account of their selfishness. Sorry for ranting, but everytime I think about, a certain saying about a camel and the eye of a needle comes to mind.