The "poor" people "I" know would rather Buy a (Blank) than pay for health insurance?

[finemobile]

Shelter, food and clothing ?

[finemobile]

a Olde English 800 - 40 ouncer and a pack of Luckies.

[jony12]

A night out at the bar of their choice.

[finemobile]

That's why you move to Canada so you don't need to pay for health insurance and you can buy whatever you want.

[garro123]

How many truly poor do you know, skippy??? Poor wolud rather buy food, medicine, cloths.you know no poor, just what Rush feeds you.

[event22]

woah there... according to the u.s. census and the data from agencies who actually serve the "poor", the "poor" are mostly children, single mothers, the elderly, and people who are not able to work due to a severe disability... granted, the standard of living of the u.s. poor is way higher than most of the world... but, it's difficult to understand why the u.s. - the most prosperous nation in the world - resist universal health care, especially for children!

[garro123]

Cigarettes (a fact), junk food, large screen TV sets, cable TV, Ipod, booze, how about a nice set of over-sized tires for that gas guzzler at a cost of about $5,000. ETC.

[eternal_seo]

I had a renter one time that had declared bankruptcy, had difficulty staying current with rent.. I one day got the "leaky faucet" call and went to look at it. They had a brand new 50" big screen TV.

He drank like a fish abused his wife, and kids, and was shaking on a job.

The mentality that the "state" will take care of people has to be stopped some how. With immigration issues, the number of people voting and a balance of power is beginning to tip in favor of people who use government services over people who pay the bill.
Soon most people except the wealthiest 10% will experience poverty as the result of this balance of power shift.


75% of americans are in debt trouble. If our country takes a down turn and things truly go south many people will not know how to live.

Health coverage is part of life. Either you need to be insured or you need to be setting cash aside for emergencies.

I should have to pay for my healthcare and that of my wife and children, BUT I should NOT and SHOULD NEVER have to pay for anyone elses.. Hillary Care, S-CHP and other programs are legalized theft in my view.

My spouse works with 'clients' that have lived in generational poverty. Liberals have tried since the 1930s to force charitable giving through our taxes. It's high time all these entitlements end. Most middle income families are at the breaking point A. because of "stuff" bought on debt and B. the Tax Man.

Caught between the two few people can get enough steam to get the debt master/slave relationship stopped.

Most people have more "stuff" then they need, I've been in that category.

It's not just about healthcare it's about making good choices.

The US rate of savings after taxes is -2.2% while our counterparts in Japan are saving 18% after taxes.. What is the difference?
Americans 1st expenses
1. Mortgage
2. Car Payment
3. VISA / Amex Bills

When it should be
1. Food, Shelter, Clothing, Health
2. Savings,
3. Bills.

How can we expect a government who can't stay within a budget to tell people they need to stay within a budget.

2008 will be a pivotal election either we will slide further to the end of the Republic or we won't. I believe it's closing on the end of this chapter of the US. Someone will write a book about the decline and fall of the US Republic as they did with Rome, Greece and other great cultures throughout history and the crux of the issue was stated eloquontly in 1787:
About the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior:"A democracy is always temporary in nature ; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.""The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years.
During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. >From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage "