tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302058077294515606.post8699466788902124712..comments2023-05-21T08:15:38.932-04:00Comments on Benjamin Peck's Writings, 2008-2011: DANGEROUS RHETORIC ON HEALTH CARE : OBAMA IS NOT HITLERBenjamin Peckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11060411573921973698noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302058077294515606.post-38865503098903211462009-08-12T18:01:08.706-04:002009-08-12T18:01:08.706-04:00We have a large helping-hand system now under Medi...We have a large helping-hand system now under Medicaid. Perhaps we should just expand that a bit further to get a few more of those we are missing. It might work better than spending a trillion dollars to get about 9 million more people insured.<br /><br />Very nice points, by the way. :-)SteveWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302058077294515606.post-43529996646732013782009-08-12T11:53:57.661-04:002009-08-12T11:53:57.661-04:00To elaborate: I don't have the RIGHT to a cert...To elaborate: I don't have the RIGHT to a certain kind of job, or a new car, or any particular material possession. I must work to earn the money to obtain those things. That's fair enough. But the decision of who lives and who dies should be another matter. <br /><br />The government provides unemployment insurance, welfare, food stamps, etc. to those in need. Why SHOULDN'T it provide a helping hand when it comes to health care? The thumbs up or thumbs down on a person's life should not be in the hands of those who care more about the bottom line than their fellow man.Timoteohttp://catnip-timoteo.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302058077294515606.post-77495896451864751832009-08-12T11:20:29.346-04:002009-08-12T11:20:29.346-04:00All I know is that other countries make it work. T...All I know is that other countries make it work. Their systems may not be perfect, but you don't have patients being dumped on the street because they don't have insurance.Timoteohttp://catnip-timoteo.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302058077294515606.post-84079408252164340122009-08-12T02:34:29.537-04:002009-08-12T02:34:29.537-04:00@tracy, what are you on about? Your comment doesn&...@tracy, what are you on about? Your comment doesn't seem to fit the thread, but OK.<br /><br />@timoteo: If health care is a right, what do you have the right to, and who has the obligation to provide it for you? What if we set up a national health care system and every doctor opts out? For a more modest example, suppose we set up national health care, and a single doctor opts out and a single person is going untreated? Are we going to conscript doctors?<br /><br />Do we have a right to food? Do we have a right to reasonable transportation, housing, or clothing? Do we have a right to a job? How will each necessity be provided under a positive "rights" system? (as opposed to a negative "rights" system, like the right to free speech where your right does not obligate anyone else to act)SteveWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302058077294515606.post-91429351410264519922009-08-12T00:43:20.285-04:002009-08-12T00:43:20.285-04:00Open letter to the birther nuts
Dear dumbasses
If ...Open letter to the birther nuts<br />Dear dumbasses<br />If Obama isn't a citizen then the CIA, Bush Jr, Bush Sr, and John McCain are all in on the conspiracy. Think about that. Why don't you wing nuts find something better to do like shoot up an abortion clinic or buy another gun. Just to show you I am not a chickenshit like you birther wing nuts I will leave my email and name.<br /><br />TJ Bogert -Texas email cc7bogert@yahoo.comtracy joseph bogertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302058077294515606.post-74399741504735927042009-08-11T20:07:01.687-04:002009-08-11T20:07:01.687-04:00Obama is being labeled "socialist" beca...Obama is being labeled "socialist" because he's locking horns with the social Darwinism of our capitalist society. <br />Insurance companies dictate survival of the fittest: Fit enough to work and continue to pay your premiums--and fit enough not to have any pre-existing conditions. <br />If you don't "fit" those parameters, then screw ya. <br /><br />We really are not a compassionate nation when it comes right down to it. It's "I've got mine, too bad about the other guy." <br />Thus, the right to health care--indeed, the right to SURVIVAL in many cases-may still belong to the privileged classes when the dust finally settles. <br />No one with any kind of conscience can call this a compassionate nation when health care is a privilege, and not a right.Timoteohttp://catnip-timoteo.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302058077294515606.post-58025758688502979052009-08-11T15:37:15.293-04:002009-08-11T15:37:15.293-04:00There is undoubtedly a double standard going on he...There is undoubtedly a double standard going on here. And I don't like the idea that the Obama administration is frustrating dissent in the same way Bush's did.<br /><br />This whole situation is "verschissen..." I had to use a German word to really express how "shitted through" it is. All politicians are pissing me off now, no matter what color they wear.Benjamin Peckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11060411573921973698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302058077294515606.post-90698255939895543412009-08-11T14:38:03.579-04:002009-08-11T14:38:03.579-04:00I too am vexed by all references to Hitler, it'...I too am vexed by all references to Hitler, it's a cheap and inflammatory tactic. However, why is it "they actually know better" when they say it about Bush, but they are "sincere" when they say it about Obama.<br /><br />Yes, the current "he's Hitler" group open themselves to such criticism by doing the Hitler schtick at all, and yet identical criticism is alway deemed more unfair when leveled by the other guy. Dissent is once again un-American now, making this two administrations in a row (and probably more) of opposing stripes that label dissent un-American.<br /><br />All Hitler comparisons are absurd (except maybe when referencing Stalin) and I wish everyone would cut it out.SteveWnoreply@blogger.com