John Edwards wants Free Health Care & Free College for everyone, What else can we get for Free?

Question

"Edwards, a former Democratic senator from North Carolina, says the federal government should underwrite universal pre-kindergarten, create matching savings accounts for low-income people, mandate a minimum wage of $9.50 and provide a million new Section 8 housing vouchers for the poor. He also pledged to start a government-funded public higher education program called "College for Everyone." "

http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071026/FRONTPAGE/710260384

Why work when you can just vote for Democrats?

universal pre-kindergarten = Day Care

I don't want to raise my kids anyway:)

This new great socialist paradise is going to be so swell!

Answer 1

So rather than bust my hump 50 hours a week I could just move my family into section 8 houseing, get my kid through college, have my son get health insurance,

why bust my hump?

Answer 2

Underwriting:

4. to bind oneself to contribute a sum of money (to what
ever your underwriting).


Has anyone stopped to think why Edwards, a democrat, couldn't keep a US Senate seat from a State that routinely elects democrats to satewide offices?

We found him personally untrustworthy.



"The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else."

Fredric Bastiat, early French economist


"We have rights, as individuals, to give as much of our own money as we please to charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of public money."

David Crockett, Congressman 1827-35




"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."

William Pitt, 18 Nov 1783


"The man who produces (earns salary or wages) while others dispose of his product is a slave."

Ayn Rand


"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the Public Treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the Public Treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy always followed by dictatorship."

Alexander Fraser Tyler, "The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic"


"It's illegal to say to a voter "Here's $100, vote for me." So what do the politicians do? They offer the $100 in the form of Health Care, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, Food Stamps, tobacco subsidies, grain payments, NEA payments, and jobs programs."

Don Farrar - average guy, age 51


"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."

George Washington

Answer 3

You miss the point. The point is that we can spend 'our' tax dollars anyway we want. We can spend them on a bloated military, or we can spend them on venues that return more money than put in or at least break even. As it is, we spend a massive amount of borrowed money on a military designed to re-fight WW2 in Europe. With a degree of thought and forward thinking the US could have UNIVERSAL HEALTH INSURANCE and UNIVERSAL HIGHER EDUCATION and we could defend the continental United States as well. The US is a sea and air power, not a land power. Technology, not troops is the key to our defense. End the war in Iraq and start thinking about real problems. That's the ticket!

Answer 4

read the story at the link you provided no mention of free anywhere. obviously you feel no need for us to help those in need. no reason to make sure health insurance is accessible and affordable. you obviously feel you are already doing more then your part in helping America become the best it can be. i do not want anyone getting anything free! i do expect anyone receiving assistance to work, to assist others, to serve their community. i expect businesses that receive tax breaks and incentives to give back in assistance in their communities. the government can do good and it does not have to be free. if you are going to make statements and offer up proof of your statements then at least get it right.

Answer 5

I'm already getting free college up to a 2 year degree. It's North Carolina's Early College Program.

This state has a lot of education programs. And Edwards is North Carolinian.

Well, the state pays for college up untill I graduate high school. Then I'm on my own. Excelent program though. I love it. I'm all for Edwards.

But no free lunch. I'll live.

Answer 6

Did you ever get the details on the "free" stuff? Obviously not. Chances are very slim that Edwards is going to be elected and therefore is no one to worry about anyway.

Answer 7

Why not. We have grant programs under the republican administration that offer free college scholarships to russian students to be educated in America. Are we not as good as the russians?

Answer 8

Considering that the US gives Israel billions which affords their kids virtually free college. Why not?

OR, how about a GPA based percentage for college tuition?

4.0 = 100% tuition paid
3.0 - 3.9 = 80%
2.0 - 2.9 = 60%

Rather than only investing in ways to wage war, I think investing in our youth's education would yield a better society and a larger tax base to allow lower taxes.

Answer 9

John Edwards never said health care would be free. Like every other country in the industrialized world, it would be paid through taxes. What's wrong with universal pre-kindergarten? Sounds like a better policy than doubling the National Debt like Bush.

Vote John Edwards

Answer 10

And this is the main falacy in the apparent democratic ideology - and clearly reflected in their distain for the military and their ideolistic proposals to dole out everything for "free."
Newsflash - I don't want to give my lazy neighbor free health care nor do I want to give his off spring higher education by working even more hours in order to retain a "take-home" pay sufficient to care - in a self sufficient way - for my own family.
My tax dollars are already taking up a large enough portion of the social welfare pie.

Answer 11

Everytime I hear John Edwards speak, all I hear are the flatulent emissions from the southbound end of a northbound jackass; something that does not sound too good, usually stinks to high heaven, and disappears in the wind.

Next stupid question, please.