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Ed Dolan and liberalism
"Edward Dolan" wrote in message news:kdmdnepBrNaUlpjWnZ2dnUVZ_qydnZ2d@prairiewave. com... It is a never ending mystery to me why I poke about liberalism like a cat with a mouse. I want it to work but it seems like it never does. I want a single payer health care system just like England has. But that is almost as far as it goes with me. I consider health care a right, not something you have to pay for in order to get it. It falls into the same category as K-12 education. It is NOT socialism any more than public education is. I think it is perfectly acceptable that the rich finance this, just as property owners finance public education. After all, they would not be rich if situated in a society like Afghanistan. I sometimes wonder how far apart Tom Sherman and I are on the fundamentals. I have spent my life thinking on these things and in the end the welfare state makes the most sense to me provided society is rich enough to make it possible. But still we NEED the capitalist goose to lay the golden eggs. I wonder why Tom Sherman can't see it like I do? Universal health care doesn't equal the welfare state and is certainly compatible with capitalism. I don't think everybody has a "right" to health care, I think it's a practical necessity and our responsibility to reform the current system. |
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Ed Dolan and liberalism
"Edward Dolan" wrote in message news:2Madnfv1M5RKkZrWnZ2dnUVZ_hWdnZ2d@prairiewave. com... "ATP*" wrote in message ... "Edward Dolan" wrote in message news:kdmdnepBrNaUlpjWnZ2dnUVZ_qydnZ2d@prairiewave. com... It is a never ending mystery to me why I poke about liberalism like a cat with a mouse. I want it to work but it seems like it never does. I want a single payer health care system just like England has. But that is almost as far as it goes with me. I consider health care a right, not something you have to pay for in order to get it. It falls into the same category as K-12 education. It is NOT socialism any more than public education is. I think it is perfectly acceptable that the rich finance this, just as property owners finance public education. After all, they would not be rich if situated in a society like Afghanistan. I sometimes wonder how far apart Tom Sherman and I are on the fundamentals. I have spent my life thinking on these things and in the end the welfare state makes the most sense to me provided society is rich enough to make it possible. But still we NEED the capitalist goose to lay the golden eggs. I wonder why Tom Sherman can't see it like I do? Universal health care doesn't equal the welfare state and is certainly compatible with capitalism. I don't think everybody has a "right" to health care, I think it's a practical necessity and our responsibility to reform the current system. The cost of providing education to everyone is simply enormous and so would the cost of providing health care to everyone. We are talking about a huge chunk of the economy. It is indeed the welfare state for government to provide these two basic services. The best way to justify it is simply to make it a right by virtue of citizenship. Regards, Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota aka Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota In the legal sense, it would become a right. What I meant is that it's not a natural right, in the same sense that we regard the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness as inalienable rights. |
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