dehboy said:
Mezmer said:
Because the right wing in this country loves to oppose any kind of reform the left wants. They employ fear tactics (something that is so petty and infuriating in its effectiveness it frankly makes me want to scream) and for some reason, every idiot in the country believes them. They keep prattling: We have the best health care system in the world!
No. We don't. Not by a long shot.
Everyone deserves coverage. Except no one is really willing to pay for it. I swear to god, I have no idea why people are so deathly afraid of raising taxes in this country. IT'S HOW LITERALLY EVERYTHING GETS PAID FOR. And the rich have absolutely no leg to stand on. Shut up, if you're worth more than $10 million dollars, you're never going to poor, your money makes more money than you could ever possibly spend it, and it's your duty as a citizen to help your countrymen. You know, it's a very basic concept we're taught to do at a very young age: Share. I will never understand the irrational behavior that is greed.
Haha, your reasoning is exactly what is wrong with America. How old are you? Just because some people take risks with their money and their risks pay off don't mean YOU should be rewarded with their money. They worked hard to earn their money, it is THEIR right to do with it as they please. Raising taxes is terrible. The more "free" programs are there, the less incentive there is to work hard and get ahead in life. If we lived in a socialist, "free" country, then we'd have no iPhones. Oh, you think we would? Well, if Steve Jobs didn't get any money from inventing the latest and greatest in technology, what incentive is there to do it? To help out his fellow countrymen? Please. Stop being so ignorant.
I'm 17. Almost 18. Clearly you are a cynic, and have a very limited understanding about how people and government work. Don't give me that "I earned everything I made, and I deserve every last penny of it". Please, give me a break, you're a human being. Just like the rest of us. If you're rich you either knew the right people, were driven, and worked hard, and let's face it, you definitely had help from lots of different people along the way, or you were born into it. You didn't do it all by yourself. Either way, are you seriously going to tell me 1 person out of a world full of billions of people, deserves to be obscenely rich, while there are millions of people who can barely afford to eat? You stop being naive. I'm not saying you have to give away your entire fucking fortune, but who the hell do you think you are? Human life is human life. Your status in society doesn't somehow make you better than the rest of the populace. And if you think it does, frankly, you disgust me.
And helping eliminate things like poverty and supporting things like health care for all people, and better education by giving tax money to them helps move society forward, and actually will make society MORE prosperous. And that's all that matters. The world doesn't care about you as a person. The world cares about what you can contribute to society. People can live their lives without fear, and do what they want to do. Poor people can actually be given a chance at doing something great, and have their potential for things like the arts, math and science realized. Maybe the next Albert Einstein lives in the ghetto, but has no way of achieving greatness because of the lack of opportunity life gave him.
Ambition is not created by competition. I'm a naturally driven person. I can't be the only one. I want to be a actor and a writer. I'm not doing those things because I want to be rich. I'm doing them because it's something I really want to do. If I'm good at it, society will reward me.
But I won't get paid, you say? Sir, I want you to do some research on the Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Norway and Sweden). They're some of the happiest, lowest crime, lowest poverty countries and successful economies in the world. Socialistic free market capitalism can exist (eg IKEA). And it works quite well.
But what do I know? I'm just some naive young optimist.