Do you think that Republicans never learned to share?

Question

Is that why they freak out when they think somebody might actually be able to see a doctor when they need to?

Is that why so many of the Republicans I know take full advantage of Social Security and Medicare benefits (or have parents who do), but don't want others to have them?

They want the government to spend money on entitlement programs for rich corporations, like us paying 50% of R & D costs for pharma companies, but yet when it comes to making sure all Americans have healthcare, they balk? Come ON man.

What's the deal with that?????

Why don't I hear you guys complaining about CORPORATE entitlements then?

There are some HUGE corporate entitlements but you guys LOVE that stuff. It's just when poor people want to see a doctor that you get all mad.

I have friends in Canada and they LOVE their socialized medicine. I don't know who you're talking to up there, but it certainly isn't the same people I'm talking to. And besides, aren't we like 39th in healthcare? How much worse can it get when we're the richest nation on earth?

yes, I AM complaining that the pharma companies who are making HUGE PROFITS also take my TAX DOLLARS! Why wouldn't I? I'd rather my tax dollars went to someone who really needs it, like someone who's losing their home due to their husband dying of cancer. And yes that happens, but I don't expect heartless people like most of the answerers on this question to care about that.

waycar, read my added details and there's one, but there are MANY others. My tax dollars are funing r & D for pharma companies. The companies that have so much money, they were like the only companies who could AFFORD to run ads 24/7 on TV. They don't need my tax dollars but you don't hear the neo-cons complaining about THAT, do you???

Answer 1

I think a lot of Republicans believe the myth that anybody can get rich in this country, no matter whether you were born rich or poor. Therefore, they think there must be something wrong with poor people -- they must be stupid or lazy. And rich (or at least upper middle class) people must be smart and hard-working.

If you believe this, then it makes perfect sense to you that rich people wouldn't want to share the wealth they worked so hard for with a bunch of stupid lazy people.

Of course, this totally ignores the fact that the circumstances you're born in have a tremendous influence on where you end up in life. If your parents can afford good nutrition, good health care, and good education for you, you're going to do a lot better than somebody whose parents couldn't afford those things. Yes, a few people born in poverty manage to escape -- but the vast majority work hard all their lives and still never get anywhere.

But for Republicans to recognize this, they'd have to admit that most poor people aren't inferior, just unlucky, and most rich people aren't superior, just lucky. And I think a lot of Republicans really don't want to admit that.

Of course I'm generalizing here, and not all Republicans think this way. But I think the crucial difference between the two parties is that Republicans tend to think that people are either rich or poor largely due to their own qualities, and it's therefore unfair to ask the deserving rich to help the undeserving poor. Democrats tend to think that people are rich or poor largely due to economic circumstances that they have little control over, and it's therefore perfectly fair to ask the people who lucked out to help the people who didn't.

Answer 2

Corporate handouts help the consumer in a lot of ways. The tax cuts to the oil companies makes it so you pay less in gasoline. If the government got rid of the oil company tax cuts, then the price of gas would go up.... way up. I wish you had a better understanding of how economics work. I don't blame you for your ignorance, obviously you were never taught basic economics.

Also, why are you angry that the pharma companies make a profit but not the government? The government does nothing but collect wind fall profits all day long.

Answer 3

A. The law says that if I show up in an emergency room I need to be seen and that I cannot be transferred out for any reason other than the hospital's inability to treat my condition. So, people can see the doctor when they need to.

B. Doctors in socialized medical delivery systems do not like the systems, especially the specialists who have to see patients not receive procedures and treatments which could save and/or improve lives.

C. Health Care is a massive industry in the United States. It is very complex and interwoven with the rest of industrial activity. By nationalizing such a large component of our economy we become economically dependent on our government. All of us. Government in any country has not shown the ability to truly manage an economy to the best advantage of the population. I don't feel up to that and I have worked in the health care industry for 30 years as a provider, manager and administrator.

I have to say that, given the highly naive take on the industry presented by most of the advocates for some type of national health care, I don't think I would trust them with overall management of the industry either.

Universal access through a plan like that in Massachusetts has some potential, although they are having problems getting people to sign up. Same with the free coverage for low income children under the SCHIP or FAMIS programs.

So, in answer to your question: I do share, plenty, I'd be glad to match mine against anyone's sharing. I happen to believe that sharing is a personal choice and not something to be forced on me by the government.
I don't freak out at all about the need for people to see a doctor when they need to. I have treated such people and I believe our health care providers do a heck of a job in emergency rooms doing just that.
I'm really confused by your second paragraph and don't understand why you think anyone doesn't want people to have access to Social Security or Medicare benefits. These are entitlement programs and are not income tested.

Please look into the issue some more. You just don't take 1/7th of the economy and drop it into the governmental sector overnight. Try the universal access programs first. That accomplishes the goal without trashing what is good with our system.

Answer 4

Conservatives, Usually part of the republican party but not really right now, Have been shown to give more to charity on every poll that is ever taken on the subject. That does not include Titheing.

Conservatives and Republicans simply know that any country the size of the US cannot possibly pay for the health care for every citizen plus illegal alliens.

Look at Social Security and Medicare part D right now. They are great ideas, but implemented they way they have been they are draining faster than we can ever replenish them without raising taxes to unheard of amounts and making everyone equally poor.

Most of the time Republicans believe in personal responsability. If you do something for yourself then you carry more pride in it and you are more willing to work hard to get it again in the future.

What Sociallized medicine, social security and welfare have become is a handout. If you constantly give things away why would anyone work for anything?

Answer 5

Who the hell gave the huge tax cuts and sent everyone a check a few years ago, sweet cheeks. Your damn leaders are contradictory in that. We cut checks for the american people, and both hillary and obama said they plan to overturn those cuts. Across the board. Wait, let's see Obamas way to end urban poverty. Yeah, a 6 billion dollar tax increase. That's really sharing there, take from the others and pay them billions. Isn't that racist in nature? Read this. Socialism is alive and well, and getting really started soon.

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The federal government already spends close to $600 billion each year on welfare programs for the poor, including Medicaid, food stamps, housing-assistance programs, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, and dozens of others. Spending an additional $6 billion a year on the above litany of moldy, outdated ideas is not going to have any effect except to waste more taxpayer dollars.

Another billion for jobs programs? Is Obama not aware that the unemployment rate is 4.5 percent and 8 million new jobs have been created since the Bush tax cuts were adopted? In addition, millions of illegal aliens have streamed across the border to get available jobs in the U.S. There is no problem with jobs in the American economy. Moreover, federal job-training programs were once a new idea — 45 years ago during the Kennedy administration. Now, with dozens of new government job-training initiatives since then, Obama’s proposal is neither new nor likely to have significant effect."

we share, you take and redistribute to select people, and that is not right. What's the deal with you?

Answer 6

Republicans give more to charity than do Democrats. If I wanted the U S to fail I'd start with energy. Obama is a communist. Obama's grandparents, parents, mentors and most of his friends are or were Communists. Show me who your friends are and I'll show you who you are. Remember Obama wants to fundamentally transform the United States of America. Obama has his own interpretation of the word fair. Like everything else about him its retarded.

Answer 7

Why should I have to pay for Social Security at all? I'm young enough that I will never see a dime of it, and they've been telling me that for 20 years now. You're not making any sense. You want the government to provide healthcare, but gripe that we're providing money to pharmaceutical companies to research new, potentially life-saving drugs?

You're right, what is the deal with that?

Answer 8

Give me a break! Why do I have to give more of what I make to an incompetent government, because some lazy sob didn't get a job or an education?

More government is NEVER the answer. If people want health care or want nice things they need to get out there and earn it.
It's not being selfish,it's called being mature and taking responsibility for your own life..

Answer 9

Maybe its because they are the only one's paying the bill. Remember 1/2 of our country pays no taxes.

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Canada's, Europes and Cuba's systems are so awesome that Americans are rushing to them for medical services ..... oops not ....thats right people of those countries are rushing here to America for services.

R&D tax breaks for drug companies make it possible for them to invent things that save lives. Lets start cutting those profits down and give them a real incentive to sit back and do nothing so people can die - awesome.

Republicans (real ones) do argue against corporate welfare - unfortunately those get into office lose their trunks and gain a donkey's tail.

Answer 10

Does the shark "share" with the remora? Hosts don't "share" with parasites. Parasites leech off the hosts without giving anything in return. That's why you'll always hear liberals demanding others "share" the fruits of their labor with them, rather than doing anything to earn it.

If you want to confiscate my wages to pay for your health care, go ahead. But don't call it "sharing". It's parasitism plain and simple.