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Originally Posted by kutulu
I don't know why this concept is so hard for people to realize:
THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH GOOD JOBS IN THE US THAT PROVIDE ADEQUATE HEALTH CARE BENEFITS!! Plain and simple. We can give anecdotes about this guy that worked so hard or that guy that was lazy but in the end it makes no difference. If 150 people are competing for 100 jobs there will be 50 jobless ones.
The fact is that SOMEONE has to be there to run the cash registers at Wal Mart. Someone needs to serve us our food when we go out to eat. Someone needs to do all the unskilled jobs out there. It doesn't matter how much the individual applies himself or herself. The individual may move on to a better job but that job will remain and needs to be filled by someone.
It is a total cop out to lay out the standard "those people don't work hard enough". That canned response totally ignores the reality of the situation.
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That's right. The darkies just line up to take welfare but the Mexicans just won't have any of that.
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I never said that those who work dead-end jobs aren't useful or don't serve some need of society, I just said that they are doing so because of a choice they made at some point in their life. I'm glad that there are people to stock shelves at Wal-Mart, really I am, but I'm also happy that I am not one of them because I decided to work hard and get an education that has a need and application in life.
It would be a bit ignorant for you to paint all hispanic immigrants as Mexicans, many are El Salvadorians, Guatemalans, Nicaraguans, etc. And just as there are those that supersede a stereotype, there are also those that set it.
And if there are not enough options for healthcare providers already, what do you expect will happen when there is only one healthcare provider(the US Government)? Where will you go if the government denies your request for surgery? Would you trust a government to provide you with healthcare when it seems that you cannot even trust it to run a war properly? What about the people who don't pay taxes, will they be turned away or should the rest of the citizens of this country foot the bill?
And again, I do not under any circumstances, trust the US Government to run an effective healthcare system. I would rather seem multiple healthcare providers in competition, instead of only a few monopolistic private companies providing healthcare along with the special interest groups and lobbies being kicked out of Washington.