I don't want everything free.
But I do think healthcare should have been universal long ago by now.
I'd be willing to cut other federal entitlements if it meant healthcare was guaranteed.
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I don't want everything free.
But I do think healthcare should have been universal long ago by now.
I'd be willing to cut other federal entitlements if it meant healthcare was guaranteed.
cajunrevenge
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cajunrevenge
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Ok, I agree with most of those signs. I accepted that it's a losing fight but I should still be allowed to have and express that opinion. Is that encouraging violence? If it is then I want other view points held in the same regard. Support the Iraq War, your supporting violence. Support the war on drugs, your encouraging violence.
Edit - I don't really think doctors should be held accoutable like police officers should be because when life starts is a morally grey area. I can accept that someone would legitimately think they are not doing anything immoral. It's a morally grey area. Locking innocent people up for breaking arbitrary laws with no victim is not a morally grey area. At some point those in law enforcement have to say "no we will not enforce this" before it gets to gassing Jews.
Runnin
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You're absolutely right. Especially when the violence of these seemingly logical actions is so messy and bleeds over - pardon the pun - into the fabric of 'peaceful' society. Soldiers come back warped and go postal or kill themselves. There are so many civilian casualties that can't seem to be stopped and the drug war turns the streets into a war zone.
But on the abortion issue, isn't the way the subject is argued so fundamentally flawed when the law is never going to stop women from having abortions? And killing doctors is so futile and tragic. Turning the issue into a political football is such a waste of energy when modern technology and society has already created the supply and the demand. Any law and/or moral argument apart from the mother's own conscience is irrelevant.
50PoundHead
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As a boomer who is not particularly fond of my generation, I think you need to head to the history books. Social Security was a New Deal initiative. Medicare was a Great Society initiative and most boomers weren't of voting age when that happened. Vietnam War was started by the Administrations and Congresses from the Greatest and Silent Generations. In fact, if you look at most of the issues today, they probably stem from the Greatest Generation's magnanimity in thinking that after thwarting fascism in WWII, any problem could be conquered and the Silent Generation's establishment and dedication to deep statistical analysis in crafting solutions to human problems.
As for the coddling of boomers, I don't know if that is true or not. I didn't feel coddled growing up in the lower middle class (and not having running water until I was 5 years old). And when you think as boomers we saw one president assassinated, a presidential candidate assassinated, another two presidents shot at, another presidential candidate crippled by a would-be assassin, a civil rights leader assassinated, the Cold War and the fear of nuclear war (complete with duck-and-cover drills in school (see below), the Vietnam War broadcast in our living rooms nightly, riots and demonstrations with considerable property damage in major cities and university campuses, economic collapses that brought us things like wage/price controls and round-the-block gas lines, misery index (unemployment rate + inflation rate) in the high-teens and low-twenties in the late 1970s. I guess Woodstock is supposed to make up for all of that. Seriously, I'm not complaining, but this drilling of boomers kind of grates on me (and I readily recognize the problems with my generation).
Granted, because our generation is so large, we have dictated the market (but as an ardent capitalist, you should understand that). Of course our preferences are going to matter because we consume so much.
As for younger generations, I think the Gen Xers are pissed at the boomers because we made them listen to our music incessantly, so they took contrary positions to us on just about everything. I don't have that much of a problem with millenials (of course, my daughters are millenials, so I understand their gifts and challenges better than I do Xers).
Duck and Cover: [video=youtube;BFT8hLjHtuE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFT8hLjHtuE[/video]