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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens
No, they do not. We disagree here. If you propose that food and medicine are an individual's rights to be provided by government, may as well through in shelter. And dramtatic as this statement sounds, we can start working on a new name for this country because that isn't American at all.
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As I told Hap, I'm glad we live in a country where (for the most part) the poor aren't dying in the streets from sickness and hunger. Social Darwinism is brutal. It rewards those who take advantage of and exploit others. It necessarily places a lower value on some human life. It stratifies and divides society into caste systems.
That's the antithesis of what America is to me. "All men are created equal."
If you want to get purely economical about it, having consumers die in the streets is bad for business. Better to keep them alive and spending.