Say no to socialism
Yet again, the government is trying to move us from being a capitalist nation to a socialist nation. The latest round of degradation is a proposed amendment to the Constitution.
The resolution would amend the Constitution to read “all persons shall enjoy the right to health care of equal high quality.”
and
“A Constitutional guarantee of health care for all will force Congress to take action to ensure that health coverage is there for all Americans.”
Why do we need this? Everyone has access to health care. Sure, some of us have better access but guess what? We earned that right. Instead of sitting around and not working, or just working menial jobs, we got out of the cave and worked to provide for ourselves and our families. If you don’t like the area you are in, move. No one is forcing you to live in a bad area.
If the government really wants to improve life in America, how about an amendment telling people to get off their lazy ass and earn a living? I know that not everyone can because they have a real medical condition that prevents them from working. I have no problem helping them out. I have a problem with the estimated 70+% of the American people on welfare that are abusing the system. The ones that can work but don’t because they know the government will encourage their laziness, err, I mean, “help them out”.
Get a grip people. It is not the governments place to take care of us. It is their place to protect us by providing a safe place to live (i.e. military, police, fire department, etc.). The liberals need to stop thinking that they can fix every problem in the U.S. by giving the government control of our daily lives. Stop taxing me over 45% of my income (based on all taxes I pay, including sales tax) because you want to force me to give money to causes I don’t believe in, especially welfare and Social (in)Security.
Speaking of Social (in)Security, take your hand out of my pocket. If you want to help me save for the future, print up some of those pretty brochures that show people how to invest in moderate growth mutual funds. The all-time average of the stock market is 11.8%. In any given 10 year period (including the Depression), the average growth is over 10%. That beats the hell out of the meager 2% I will see out of Social (in)Security. Plus, when I die, instead of my surviving family only getting a percentage of my SS, they would get the entire sum of my mutual fund investments that will continue to grow and earn them more money.
Want to see why I support SS reform? Check out the Social Security Reform page at DaveRamsey.com. There’s a whole list of reasons why the reform would be a good thing for the young workers of today. Plus, there is a calculator showing how much you would have at retirement if you were able to start contributing just 4% of your current SS tax into a mutual fund.
I did the calculation and found that if I was able to start contributing part of my SS to mutual funds (C Fund, 10.99% returns for the last 10 years), I would retire at 65 and be able to pull out $5,113.79 per month! Compare that to my SS estimate showing that I would pull a whopping $1,189 per month on SS and you see why I support reform (after you run the calculation, there is a link to the “Estimated Social Security Benefit” site located under “Breakdown of the Current Social Security System”). Also, I would have a nest egg of $768,028.67 to pass to my children because the monthly draw is interest earned. They wouldn’t get anywhere near that from SS.
No friend, government intervention is not the answer. Pulling yourself up and wanting to provide a better future for your children is the answer. Needing a little help along the way is not a bad thing. Expecting help all the time is a bad thing.
04.Mar.05 
Government
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That Dave Ramsey page is pretty cool. I heard him talking about that on the radio and I’d be retiring on something like 500k.
A lot of folks have been bringing up this universal healthcare stuff with me. When they do, I just tell them that I couldn’t possibly trust the same government with my health that screwed up Iraq, cuts taxes for the wealthy, and so on. That really makes it a tough sell.
My main problem with a government run health care system is that many doctors will go out of business. The government will tell them “We will only pay you X amount for that procedure.” and who is the doctor to argue?
Plus, look at all the other countries that have socialized medicine. The patients are lined up out the door because everyone goes to the doctor for every little sniffle they have. Why not? They aren’t paying for it, the government is.
My real disagreement is simple. It’s not the job of government to take care of people when they can take care of themselves. To do so teaches people to be dependent on government and makes our country weaker.