A bad idea to help our own citizens with a healthcare plan?
2007-09-17 07:38:40 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
It's a good question and based on the answers so far, it looks like the answer is that conservatives are selfish.
Mention universal health care and conservatives say 'well I don't want to pay for other people's health care'. They're worried about their own money, pure and simple.
The Iraq War may be costing our country billions of dollars, it may be costing us thousands of American lives and hundreds of thousands of human lives overall, the majority of the country and world may be against it, but it doesn't directly effect conservatives (unless they have a relative serving in the armed forces).
Bush hasn't raised their taxes to pay for the war - in fact he's cut their taxes. He's putting the country into massive debt, but hey, our kids and grandkids will pay for that. The bottom line is that conservatives feel safer with the war going on. They buy into the false claim that we're fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them here.
So the only effect they see with the war on their personal lives is an increased sense of (false) security. To heck with the people who are dying, and to heck with future generations who have to pay for our fiscal irresponsibility.
The selfish conservative loves the Iraq War and hates universal health care for those reasons.
2007-09-17 08:07:09 · answer #1 · answered by Dana1981 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
A 'win' in Iraq means more oil profits in the pockets of the board member of the oil companies. Better healthcare mean less money in the pockets of the insurance executives who also sit on the boards of the oil companies. Need to ask anymore.
Oh, and regarding the wolf at the door. The wolf is a Saudi who was based in Afghanistan and is now in Pakistan......neither of which is anyway shape or form located within the boundries of Iraq (or Iran)
2007-09-17 13:15:19 · answer #2 · answered by momatad 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
1. It's not "trillions". In the 4+ years we've been there, the cost is still less than $500 Billion. It's important to start with facts.
2. Per the Constitution, the federal government has the power / duty to prosecute war.
3. Per the 10th Amendment, since providing medical coverage is not enumerated in the Constitution, it is not a power or duty of the federal government. This means that Congress has no Constitutional authority to be spending our money (or taxing it from us) to pay for others' medical insurance.
If you want the Constitution to remain the law of the land, you must respect and enforce its limits upon government. That is the only way to keep your rights and freedoms.
2007-09-17 07:59:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
I guess you need to ask the "conservatives" They ran up around 5 trillion under their failed agenda during the Bush years. BTW, in the spirit of "honesty" (I know that is a foreign concept in the Bizzaro Republican world) Almost half of the stimulus package was tax breaks, not spending. Why are Republicans so dishonest about this?
2016-05-17 05:58:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A univeral health care system does not benefit the government in the eyes of conservatives.
Americans + Health care = Better workers= More Profits
Iraq + Oil= Profits
2007-09-17 07:51:18 · answer #5 · answered by Global warming ain't cool 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Many Democrats thought it was a good idea to go to war. Look up the votes.
As far as the government running health care...name 5 government agencies that are more efficient than the private sector, and turned out to be everything they were promised to be? I bet you cannot name 2.
I love all the thumbs down. Cannot handle the facts. Democrats voted for the war, and the Liberals will not hold them accountable. They should have done their work! Liberals are so forgiving of their own, yet Conservatives have voted Republicans out of office. Have you seen the debate ratings? 500,000 more people watched the Democrat debates. Hmmm...what does that tell us? Liberals aren't even watching the Republicans, and Conservatives watch both. Foolish.
2007-09-17 07:51:38 · answer #6 · answered by Stereotypemebecauseyouknow 7 · 2⤊ 6⤋
Different issues, different answers for both.
We have a very good healthcare system today. Is it perfect as it is? No it needs to be tweaked.
Is Universal Healthcare a utopia that the democrats are promising? No. There are many examples good and bad of why it does and why it does not. What I have read, the bad outweighs the good.
So in my opinion it is best to modify what we have today to fit the needs of society than to throw the baby out with the bath water and start new.
2007-09-17 07:49:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 6⤋
Americans have health care plans. Some liberals are looking to the US government for handouts. People in Iraq are fighting for their very lives. There is no comparison.
2007-09-17 07:53:38 · answer #8 · answered by regerugged 7 · 2⤊ 6⤋
we all have a right to healthcare, but the freedom to pick and choose.....
I think our healthcare program needs a big reform including the ins. co. but the universal stuff would not help anything at all....
2007-09-17 07:46:27 · answer #9 · answered by tll 6 · 3⤊ 4⤋
They support the arm of our government that is designed to kill people unconditionally - but they don't want to support the lives of american citizens.
These are some very strange people.
2007-09-17 07:50:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 10⤊ 2⤋