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Originally Posted by BFT3K
I guess a few other questions could be...
Is education a right or a privilege?
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No, you don't have the right to a higher education if you haven't earned it. Tax money shouldn't be spent on someone that is not trying. If it's a person that has busted their ass to get good grades , then yes, I say let the government help them, I don't think the same should go to someone that has mediocre grade, we need gardeners too!
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Is clean water a right or a privilege?
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Yes, our taxes and water fees should cover clean water, where in this country are people forced to drink dirty water? Or should the government hand out Dasani?
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Is clean air a right or a privilege?
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Yes, the way manufacturing plants trade on dirty air is pretty twisted. The EPA does a pretty good job for what they have
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Is police protection a right or a privilege?
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No, are you going to tell me that a cop can protect someone living in the country the same way with the same response time for someone in the city. When they need minutes to get there, I'm glad for gun right rights
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Is unemployment insurance, medicare, and social security a right or a privilege?
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Those are rights
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I can go on and on, but you get it right?
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No not really, different subjects, you get that right?
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Should 50 cents of every dollar in the US go to the Pentagon budget? Is that money spent more efficiently?
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50 cents of every dollar? I don't think it's that high, I think we have a need to keep our military strong and with the best in equipment to protect them. Just like all government programs, they spend way too much on things, LIKE THEY WILL ON HEALTHCARE
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In a way I hope health-care does not change, and the insurance companies quadruple their rates over the next 2 years. Then you assholes who think the emergency room is already the answer for the uninsured, can finally reap what you sow....
Filled emergency rooms when YOU need help, and less people paying into the pool, so YOUR rates can FUCKING SKYROCKET!
Of course, instead, Obama will get this past, don't ask-don't-tell will be repealed, and you guys can enjoy Obama's second term in disgust, as your party offers NOTHING to the common man.
Sorry, I guess this is a political issue, as it is clearly NOT a moral one, because if it were, the idea that health-care is a right, would be unanimous.
Hey righties - Jesus was a fucking socialist, so try to sort out your selective hatred okay?
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the health-care system needs reform, that's a given, but shoving 2700 pages of regulations and yet to written rules is hardly the answer and forgive people that think this scares them, it's the unknown that scares people and 2700 pages of something no one has read yet is pretty much UNKNOWN