Message #271

[kentay]

Ted, why do you post half truths I thought you were better than that.

I'm not posting any half truths. The difference is that you and I see the very same things different light.

If there were 100 people in a room and 95 of them were financially secure and 5 were in financial trouble I would see this as a mostly positive thing. After all, the vast majority are doing well.  I suspect that you would view the same situation differently because of the lowest 5%. You would prefer that all 100% be financially secure, as would I, but you would be willing to forcibly take from the top 5% and give it to the bottom 5% and I wouldn't.

I simply believe that history shows that societies formed around individual freedom bring a greater standard of living and more happiness to a greater number of people than do societies formed around forced equality.

That's all there is to it.

Name me any western Country that has more Individual Freedom with a higher standard of living that is ahead of us. All the socialist type countries in Western Europe are ahead of us, we are no longer number one. Like we were in the 50-60-70, when people cared about their neighbors,  then the greedy took over.  You said:

"You MUST buy government approved health insurance or you will be penalized, or taxed.  That's a dictate."  That is just not true only those people who chose not to buy any healthcare or have any healthcare and use the Hospital emergency care as their healthcare provider, have to pay the penalty. So I rated you as posting a half truth unless you can prove differently. kentay