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Originally posted by debaser
America provides the services you list above for all people within our borders. Granted there is a problem with homelessness, but that is as much a problem of the individual as it is the society. Americans pay for these services. How do you propose to expand that net around the world when many nations do not have the ability to pay for them?
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44 million Americans without health insurance would disagree with you, not to mention the 13-20 million illegal immigrants in this country, who have basically no safety net of any kind, yet provide some of the most important day-to-day labor jobs in this country.
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