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Originally Posted by BleedBurgundy
I know you didn't actually take anything i said to mean that we were closer to the 3rd world than first. My take is that to stay a first world going forward, we need to look at the areas we are currently lacking in. To me, that is healthcare, pure and simple. I don't think the gov't needs to be involved in all aspects of life, but this is one with which I have no issue.
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. How is health not intrinsic to two thirds of that statement?
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also fascinating is that the Declaration of
Independence was a treatise declaring freedom from oppressive government behavior. That your partial quote was actually used to say government should stay the heck away from these things. And now you use it to beg big brother to please please put people back under its thumb.
The founders wrote that to break from government and let men rise and fall on their own merits.
We certainly have come a long way my good people.