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Originally Posted by loquitur
will, you keep defaulting back to core govt functions to defend social programs. That's bait-and-switch. Cut it out, it's intellectually dishonest and beneath you.
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loquitor...arent you also playing bait and switch?
Why not respond to my post:
A job with no health insurance wont help with a serious illness of a child....a minimum wage job wont put food on the table.....
Or someone who is living from paycheck to paycheck and recently let go because of downsizing and suddenly finds himself between jobs....how does he pay next month's rent w/o unemployment comp?
I really am trying to understand the compassionate libertarian position that minimizes the need for a government social safety net.
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It is not just social safety net programs for minorities (those subject to years/decades of discrimination) or poor/working class white families.
Forty years ago (your time frame), more than half the seniors in the country had no health insurance. That crazy Great Society government social program, Medicare, with all its faults, has made a huge difference in the quality of life for seniors.
Do you think "market forces" would provide affordable health care to seniors?