--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 3/10/07 12:12:29 A.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > And how many american lives lost when you spent a > trillion dollars on an unjustifiable war rather than on health care > for civilian and military , education and job training, pensions and > the many mentally ill homeless, the environment? > > > Answer to question 1 is Zero. Answer to question 2 is also Zero. And this is > what really pisses off the left, not that Soldiers are risking life and limb > for them but the money being used could be buying all kinds of Socialist > programs. > Education, the environment, and health are socialist programs? > > > > > Universal healthcare for civilians, is socialism. Education and job training > beyond what the states already normally provide is socialism. Federal take > over of pensions is socialism. Government care of the mentally is socialism, > although it is a good and compassionate idea to help provide for those who > can't provide for themselves. Nobody wants to see those that can't take care of > themselves turned out on their own.
I think some reasonable attention could be put on our social programs without having to resort to charges of socialism. Anymore than calling the expanding military/industrial complex fascism. As a self-employed consultant I pay nearly $200/mo. for minimal health care coverage, just for me. A decent plan is ~$400/mo. Who can afford that? Also, the schools in California are now 49th or something in the nation, after being ranked near the top for years, but the funding has been gutted to the point where teachers must buy their own supplies, and the education budget is supplemented by the state lottery. A disgrace. And you refer to Federal take over of pensions. Who in the private sector gets a pension these days? I don't know one person who does.
