universal healthcare

[Thecla]

Nope. I'm not the utterly one dimensional person (neo-con???? :blink:) you thought I was.

I'm pretty sure "heartless" was in there too at some point, but actually I view you as neither a neo-con nor heartless. A stubbornly eccentric loony, perhaps, but that's a different thing entirely.:P I was just surprised by your statement that you wanted to see "our" --- presumably including "your" --- tax money go to help the poor, since it seemed so at odds with what you've said before.

It may seem odd, but my feelings about what the government forces us to do are very different from the compassion I feel we should show to each other freely. Bad things happen, and good people do something about it. Not because we are forced by the laws and government to do it, but because we are compassionate and caring beings who form societies. Government is not the glue that holds a society together, it is merely an agreed upon coda that attempts to give us justice. It cannot give us equality, as that is measured in the character of each individual.