Didn't the organizing principle of government or bureaucracies arise from the desire to live more comfortably, as opposed to living as a hunter gatherer?
Didn't the organizing principle of government or bureaucracies arise from the desire to live more comfortably, as opposed to living as a hunter gatherer?
We formed a government in order to take care of the things individuals can't provide for themselves. National defense, courts, not provide healthcare and retirement funds. They had health care and people retired when the Constitution was written. If the Founders really believed that was the proper role of government they would have said so in the Constitution.
Didn't the organizing principle of government or bureaucracies arise from the desire to live more comfortably, as opposed to living as a hunter gatherer?
We formed a government in order to take care of the things individuals can't provide for themselves. National defense, courts, not provide healthcare and retirement funds. They had health care and people retired when the Constitution was written. If the Founders really believed that was the proper role of government they would have said so in the Constitution.
Didn't the organizing principle of government or bureaucracies arise from the desire to live more comfortably, as opposed to living as a hunter gatherer?
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it
Didn't the organizing principle of government or bureaucracies arise from the desire to live more comfortably, as opposed to living as a hunter gatherer?
We formed a government in order to take care of the things individuals can't provide for themselves. National defense, courts, not provide healthcare and retirement funds. They had health care and people retired when the Constitution was written. If the Founders really believed that was the proper role of government they would have said so in the Constitution.
Retirement is a relatively new concept that did not exist in the 1700s outside of a select few. That's not to say that SS is solving all our woes, but to pretend that Americans retired comfortably before the advent of SS is just patently false.
As for healthcare, it's become pretty clear that the free market is unable to provide sufficient care to a large segment of the population, be it due to poverty or preexisting conditions. If you're okay with that then go make that argument, but I think most people recognize that the government must play some role to correct the deficiencies of the market.
Didn't the organizing principle of government or bureaucracies arise from the desire to live more comfortably, as opposed to living as a hunter gatherer?
We formed a government in order to take care of the things individuals can't provide for themselves. National defense, courts, not provide healthcare and retirement funds. They had health care and people retired when the Constitution was written. If the Founders really believed that was the proper role of government they would have said so in the Constitution.
Didn't the organizing principle of government or bureaucracies arise from the desire to live more comfortably, as opposed to living as a hunter gatherer?
We formed a government in order to take care of the things individuals can't provide for themselves. National defense, courts, not provide healthcare and retirement funds. They had health care and people retired when the Constitution was written. If the Founders really believed that was the proper role of government they would have said so in the Constitution.
Retirement is a relatively new concept that did not exist in the 1700s outside of a select few. That's not to say that SS is solving all our woes, but to pretend that Americans retired comfortably before the advent of SS is just patently false.
As for healthcare, it's become pretty clear that the free market is unable to provide sufficient care to a large segment of the population, be it due to poverty or preexisting conditions. If you're okay with that then go make that argument, but I think most people recognize that the government must play some role to correct the deficiencies of the market.
Can we please lay off the strawman's asswhole for just one day? I never claimed that people retired comfortably back in the 1700s. But people did get old, they did get sick and they did die. The very same certainties of life that exist today, existed back then and the Founders didn't believe that the Federal government had any role in ameliorating those certainties.
Our current healthcare system is about as far as you can get from a free market so it's not really fair to say it isn't able to provide sufficient care to a large segment of the population.
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But morons keeps surviving childhood due to medical advances.
https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2019/07/10/will-adding-undocumented-adults-to-medi-cal-hurt-an-already-overburdened-system/?fbclid=IwAR2KntAZ86t1PFd9kaywsCK5E2vCOe5NyIIOo55txIFFHIviDuuHDKFsb9c
As for healthcare, it's become pretty clear that the free market is unable to provide sufficient care to a large segment of the population, be it due to poverty or preexisting conditions. If you're okay with that then go make that argument, but I think most people recognize that the government must play some role to correct the deficiencies of the market.
Democrat socialists want socialism. Why are you lying about it @Gwad ?
Our current healthcare system is about as far as you can get from a free market so it's not really fair to say it isn't able to provide sufficient care to a large segment of the population.