18th June 2003, 9:18 PM
First, poor people buy lots of fast food. It is really cheap. Our society is the first in history where the POOR are fat and the RICH thin. Always before, the rich were fat and the poor thin because of how poor people couldn't get as much rich foods... now, the poor are fat because the cheapest foods are the worst for you. And foods good for you are expensive. That is a huge change in society...
Next... taxes. No one likes taxes. But almost everyone can (or should be able to) see the benefits of them. I just can't see how Republicans can legitimately say "we don't want to support the schools, the poor, the middle class, the working people, etc. We just want to do things that help rich people" and be successful at it... it just makes no sense to me... and I also don't understand how you pass off so many great and very useful programs as "government waste". Again, it just puzzles me how people take those statements of how Republicans want poor people to be poor forever and die young and the middle class to be stuck in a mediocre situation for all time and say "that's a great idea!"...
Health Care. Weltall, you claim that we have better heath care than Canada. That is false, by a factual basis. We do NOT. In fact our healthcare system is pretty low by world rankings. Why? BECAUSE 40 MILLION AMERICANS HAVE NONE! And with no health care you get essentially no service. So while for the people with top health plans its the best in the world, and for people with mid-range plans (like most people) its okay but not really that great (because of HMOs largely...), for the poor... its awful. Truly terrible. And because of that our healthcare system is fatally flawed until we fix that problem. Its just common sense that a healthy society will be more productive! Isn't that reasonable?
Next... taxes. No one likes taxes. But almost everyone can (or should be able to) see the benefits of them. I just can't see how Republicans can legitimately say "we don't want to support the schools, the poor, the middle class, the working people, etc. We just want to do things that help rich people" and be successful at it... it just makes no sense to me... and I also don't understand how you pass off so many great and very useful programs as "government waste". Again, it just puzzles me how people take those statements of how Republicans want poor people to be poor forever and die young and the middle class to be stuck in a mediocre situation for all time and say "that's a great idea!"...
Health Care. Weltall, you claim that we have better heath care than Canada. That is false, by a factual basis. We do NOT. In fact our healthcare system is pretty low by world rankings. Why? BECAUSE 40 MILLION AMERICANS HAVE NONE! And with no health care you get essentially no service. So while for the people with top health plans its the best in the world, and for people with mid-range plans (like most people) its okay but not really that great (because of HMOs largely...), for the poor... its awful. Truly terrible. And because of that our healthcare system is fatally flawed until we fix that problem. Its just common sense that a healthy society will be more productive! Isn't that reasonable?
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