Margaret Thatcher on Socialism

Mizzou4life1985 Says:

Nov 20, 2009 - Now, back to healthcare. In 1935 the Congress passed the Social Security Act, it is now broke. 1965 Congress passed the Medicare program which is on the path to bankruptcy. Government run healthcare will be no different. How fair is it for the government to tell women that a "mammogram is not a neccesary procedure for someone under 50". When early detection saves lives, the government is telling women NO?!

Mizzou4life1985 Says:

Nov 20, 2009 - Here's a common sense solution, let's have health insurance companies compete like car insurance companies compete. Competiiton has proven to lower cost and we won't have to spend anymore money that we don't have. Pretty soon because of massive spending we will have massive inflation. Don't believe me, look at German History, look at the Carter Administration, look at Eastern Europe after WW2.

Mizzou4life1985 Says:

Nov 20, 2009 - I'm sorry to have taken up so much space on here but I will leave you with this, ask any person who lived in Eastern Europe during the time of the Cold War and ask them what they prefer, Government Regulation and Rationing or Free Markets and Investment? I believe in Health Care reform, but it's not reform if it will add to the national debt. I believe in Government By the People for the People not government By the Elite Few for the People. Thank You for Listening

PluralOfEverything Says:

Nov 20, 2009 - Let's not make this a religious debate. I'm past that now. We're not going to convert each other, so we might as well just skip all that. So we need rich people because wealth itself comes from and depends on them? No. Wealth does not come from the wealthy. It comes from the poor. I totally agree with you on not depending on the government for healthcare. The less we need them to do for us, the better.

PluralOfEverything Says:

Nov 20, 2009 - Is it right for us to pay taxes to support a war that has nothing to do with us? If they just put the money they use to make weapons into health care, things would be a lot better. We are forced to pay taxes, and we have absolutely no say in where the money goes. There is something seriously wrong with that. Who decides where the money goes? The people with the resources to buy politicians. Could it really be a coincidence that wars are happening where we just happen to be getting oil?

Mizzou4life1985 Says:

Nov 20, 2009 - Ok, when was the last time you saw a poor person create a job by investing money in business? Listen, not everyone can be rich, but a rich person can come from anyone. It's all about motivation, wanting to better one's self. I don't have much, but, I'm thankful for what I have and I'm not satisfied with where I'm at right now. I have the ability to make something of myself and that's what we should encourage to people. Education is a key element is promoting all class levels.

Mizzou4life1985 Says:

Nov 20, 2009 - Now, when I was a teenager and I needed money, if my parents gave it to me, I went through it like Sherman went through Georgia. Now, my parents didn't do that, they told me that if I want something, I needed to go out and earn it, get a job and such. Everything that I've earned I value a lot more because of the personal sacrifice that I made to get it. Will I ever be rich? I don't know, but I'm not going to punish people who go out and earn a living.

Mizzou4life1985 Says:

Nov 20, 2009 - In the Constitution of the United States it gives Congress the power levy taxes in support of an Army and Navy. What is your solution to the War in Afghanistan and Iraq, how would you have prevented war? I was in Iraq for a year and you preach about helping the poor but the people of Iraq and Afghanistan don't deserve the very freedom in which you and I have enjoyed our whole lives? We do have say, it's called free elections.

Mizzou4life1985 Says:

Nov 20, 2009 - If we were in it only for oil, then why are gas prices up at the price they are now? You have say in where taxes go, they're called free elections. You go to the polls and vote for a person who you believe will handle the tax payer money properly. Then you keep in touch with your congressperson or senator and hold them accountable for their actions. Remember, they work for you, not the other way around.

PluralOfEverything Says:

Nov 20, 2009 - The tax money doesn't go to people who don't work, unless you mean welfare, which I agree is a bad thing. The money we're talking about is health care, and it is going to doctors who treat people who choose not to work. The non workers are not getting money. They are getting treatment for illnesses, injuries, and diseases. They are entitled to this treatment, and those who treat them are entitled to the money. The government doesn't get anything by providing this assistance.

PluralOfEverything Says:

Nov 20, 2009 - The people the money comes from don't lose anything that they need by providing the money for the program. Maybe that means there's less incentive for them to make money if it's just going to go to people who need the help that it can provide. If you are against universal health care, you are against the idea of the government providing for the general welfare of its people.

Mizzou4life1985 Says:

Nov 20, 2009 - Ok, we're on healthcare, we're on war, we're back on healthcare, what is it? I'm not going to tell them work, but, I would not expand welfare and medicaid programs to keep able bodied workers from working. You cut off the assistance, they're going to have to do something, which is get a job. However, the government has to spend more money to provide this assistance. And quite frankly, and I think you'll agree, we're broke.

PluralOfEverything Says:

Nov 20, 2009 - We don't vote for president. Electors do. If the popular vote meant anything, we wouldn't have gone through 8 years of that moron Bush. That should have been the premise of the war from the beginning, and it should not have been called a war. We were told that it was a war against terrorists, not a war to liberate people. The governmetn lied about what they were using our money for. To me, that means they stole it.

PluralOfEverything Says:

Nov 20, 2009 - Gas prices are high because oil company executives want to cash in on a crisis. It's called greed. They can lay people off in order to make more money, which means they care about money, not people.

Mizzou4life1985 Says:

Nov 20, 2009 - Hey, I've got to bolt after, sir, I sent you a message why. We do elect the President, how do you think the electors are choosen? Do they select Democrat Electors for a state that voted Republican? I was more meaning that we elect congressman and senators. Also, the war was about Terrorism and we were able to liberate people who lived under the shadow of the terrorist. It is the War on Terrorism. We liberated terrorist sponsering states.

PluralOfEverything Says:

Nov 20, 2009 - We're worse than broke. The monetary system makes wealth out of debt. It's insane. A dollar bill is worth a dollar, but what is a dollar anyway? It's nothing. Where's that in the constitution? The government is supposed to be empowered by the people, but I think ours is making a conversion to money.

PluralOfEverything Says:

Nov 20, 2009 - Why are we still there then? Why don't they let all the soldiers come home?

Mizzou4life1985 Says:

Nov 20, 2009 - Because the War on Terrorism is still going on. Al-Qaeda is getting stronger thanks to our sit and wait foreign policy. You have to remain in motion so that your advisaries don't gain an advantage on you. We've neglected the War in Afghanistan, and yes, that too is in part to Bush, but we can't leave the region until it is stablized. Whether you agree with the war or not, we're there, we're responsible for it and we have to restabilize it.

Mizzou4life1985 Says:

Nov 20, 2009 - I don't see people disagreeing with Truman's decision to keep troops in Europe and Japan for restabilization after WW2. Nor is the same for Eisenhower after Korea. This is the same situation, we'll have it to where Iraq and Afghanistan are much like Europe and Korea. You realize that's the only way Europe and Korea have been stabilized for so long. When we pulled out of Vietnam, the Communist went back on their word and it became an embarrassment to American Foreign Policy.

PluralOfEverything Says:

Nov 20, 2009 - I agree. The government doesn't know how to handle money. If that was the reason people are protesting universal healthcare, I'd be on their side. Instead, it's irrational attacks on socialism and complaining that they don't want to pay more taxes.

AcePilot101 Says:

Nov 20, 2009 - Obama does not realize that there is no profit in socialism. Free enterprise is the natural economic system. Socialists try to transfer wealth using the global warming myth (cap-and-trade legislation), demand population control (abortion), and hate free speech (Obama's attacks on Fox News and the so-called Fairness Doctrine and Internet Neutrality, etc.) God bless Margaret Thatcher!

johnblack627 Says:

Nov 20, 2009 - YOU ROCK Margaret! And parliament, take a chill pill. STOP SHOUTING! Our congress is better than this.

CHANGEtheIdiot Says:

Nov 21, 2009 - Thacher and Reagan... when will we ever see two finer politicians again. God help us with Brown and Obama... they both would prefer the "gap" to be as small as their minds!

twk373 Says:

Nov 21, 2009 - Epic win for freedom!

pinickityme Says:

Nov 21, 2009 - Re: Change Instead of thinking "make the Gap smaller" what about thinking "spread the cash a little more evenly". I say this since not everyone has the opportunity as a result of birth of a good education hence a good job a decent wage.