On Friday 2004-01-16 13:16, Damon Agretto wrote: > --- Trent Shipley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nope. If you are insolvent you should not be > > treated. > > > > Open access to emergency medicine is the back door > > is basically a disguised > > form of socialized medicine. It forces solvent > > people to take on your > > charity case whether they want to or not. > > Well Trent then I guess I won't depend on you should > my life ever be threatened. While we're at it, lets > get rid of unemployment support, wellfare, and any > other government "charities" since we're being forced > to provide for those leeches too... > > Damon.
Yep.
If the space-cadets must justify their pet project in objective terms, so must
bleeding hearts.
The main reason to keep welfare programs is the sentimental belief that we (meaning those lucky -- or moral -- enough to be taxpayers)
Why do you believe that being a taxpayer -- by which I am presuming you mean having an income, owning property, etc., so that you are subject to taxation -- is simply a matter of "luck"?
are morally obliged to take care of all our fellow citizens, or even human beings.
What does "to take care of" entail?
I can think of only a few objective reasons why the commonwealth should provide subsidies to ne'er do wells like myself.
Why do you consider yourself a "ne'er do well"? I understood from what you said in an earlier post that you have some chronic health problem(s?), and that they may be serious enough that you are disabled, but at least IMO that does not make you or someone else in the same situation a "ne'er do well" . . .
-- Ronn! :)
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