[B5JMS] And So It Begins...

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From: Jon Biggar <jon at floorboard.com>
Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 17:10:09 GMT
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Jms at B5 wrote:
>> Of course some also studiously ignore the downsides of universal 
>> health care. The Canadian government is now proudly touting the 
>> fact that they have brought the waiting time for hip surgery down 
>> to less than three years. SIx to nine months to get access to an 
>> MRI.
> 
> Sounds pretty good for that section of the American population who 
> can't afford it at all, however.  If I had the choice between not 
> getting a new hip because I couldn't pony up the money, because I had
> no health insurance, and waiting three years...I'd go for the latter
> every time.

Um, can anybody please explain to me what it is about liberal thinking
that allows them to believe that when a researcher invents a new type of
medical procedure (like a hip replacement) or a new drug, that the very
existence of the new invention or drug means that everyone in the
country suddenly has an inalienable right to extract money from those
in society that are productive so that they have access to it for free?

What's so special about health care?  What exempts other necessities
like food, shelter, clothing, transportation, a college education, etc? 
  Oh wait, I can find liberals that think that *all* of those are 
undisputable rights as well.

Yup, that's liberal thinking.  Demand that access to everything be a 
right, just so they can feel good about their compassion for others, 
funded by threat of force, regardless of whether it would break the bank.

-- 
Jon Biggar
Floorboard Software
jon at floorboard.com
jon at biggar.org


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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 27 May 2003 02:40:01 GMT
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>Yup, that's liberal thinking.  Demand that access to everything be a 
>right, just so they can feel good about their compassion for others, 
>funded by threat of force, regardless of whether it would break the bank.

So here's the question.

How come, when Bush decides to up the defense budget another hundred billion to
$350 billion, and spend another $150-200 billion on the war in Iraq, nobody on
the right stops to say, "Hey, where's this money gonna come from?"  That never
seems to be an issue, dropping bombs, that never seems to be an issue, but
feeding, clothing, and helping the least of its citizens, that somehow has to
be justified.

Astonishing.

 jms

(jmsatb5 at aol.com)
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