During this week’s GOP debate Ron Paul was asked whether a man who needs intensive care for six months and doesn’t have health insurance deserves government welfare. The crowd cheered when he answered in the negative then, when the mediator further quizzed him on whether society should let him die, multiple voices yelled “yeah!”.
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Wow. They cheered Perry’s capital punishment record in the previous debate, now this. The GOP death cult charges on.
The hypothetical was for a young working man who was presumably able to afford health insurance. Wonder what the reaction would be if it was for a poor person? Hopefully the crowd would be a bit more sympathetic.
Ron Paul Libertarians are Social Darwinists — read Herbert Spencer.
The GOP are in dire need of a Greater Power injecting them, collectively, with the milk of human kindness. Fascinating how they are predominantly G0d-botherers but gleefully bay for the blood of those less fortunate.
Who is that baffoon? Surely he can’t as dumb as he appears. That wa sa prospective presentidents dabate right?
Mmm Christian Values!
That ‘buffoon’ was Ron Paul, a hugely popular politician seen as the ‘intellectual’ leader of the Tea Party . He’s a member of Congress and is standing, yet again, for the Republican nomination for President.
Mmmm - errr, no, they are not Christian values at all! It is polar opposite to Christian values.
It is loathsome that some who purport Christian values actually support these nutcases.
Yes, I am a Christian
Nice one, they couldn’t spare a few thousand to save a life, but they’ll feed in hundreds of billions of dollars to keep a US company/industry on life support…
People do actually believe that the guy should not be helped because it isn’t them or someone they know. It all changes when that changes.
and we want to be associated with this country?
Self-interest ueber alles. How many them there whoopers got insurance?
But of course the good doctor wouldn’t consider to force the healthy 30-year old to buy health insurance and pay his fair share, would he? This odious free-market anti-government thinking is totally getting out of hand, if you ask me. (I know, nobody did.)
What Ron Paul always argues is that we should be charitable to our fellow man but entitlements are not human rights. The problem is that socialism is not based on charity. It was contrived by an elite rich and their foundation funded lackeys as a means of extracting wealth from the productive mnembers of society i.e those earning a more than a subsistence living i.e. the middle class however you want to defineit. Here is my definition:
“Socialism is government enforced theft of middle class wealth by a corporate elite laundered through the poor.”
Here is how it works and why it is such a great scam because superficially it looks like kindness to one’s fellow man. The money the poor receive from governement comes from the middle class taxes and is immediately spent - it is never saved because it barely covers basics. It flows through the hands of the poor like soil through an earthworm into the pockets of Big Pharma, Big Health and Welfare, Food Inc, Big Discounts, Dunkin’ Donuts, McDonalds and so on.
It’s really fascism - they are one and the same.
If you listen to the video correctly the questioner asks Ron Paul “Are you saying the society should just let him die?” And Ron Paul answers “No”
Ok, who let the Trot in?
Bill, my point exactly.