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View Poll Results: Is it morally acceptable to you to force other people to pay for your bills?
Yes, I love it! 16 16.84%
No, it morally repugnant. 77 81.05%
I don’t like it but it’s nice someone pays for my bulls 1 1.05%
I don’t know. 1 1.05%
Voters: 95. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 03-17-2019, 12:16 PM
 
Location: By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea
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Is it morally acceptable to you to force other people to pay for your bills like your living expenses, healthcare, education and child rearing?

Not sure, have we learned where Stormy's hush $$$ came from yet?
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Old 03-17-2019, 12:34 PM
 
Location: Chicago, IL
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I guarantee every single person visiting co-signing this nonsense thread has and likes health insurance... the very definition of which is having other people pay your bills.
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Old 03-17-2019, 12:35 PM
 
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We also have the DUTY to stand up and remove a govt from power when and if it becomes necessary, it is up to us, (the citizens), to recognize when this needs to happen too. Refusal to do so, even if its because action would be 'too inconvenient' or 'too risky (legally)' is treasonous.



"Freedom is not free, it requires the blood of patriots from time to time", "the tree of liberty must refreshed from time to time".

Quoting some azzclown Carpetbagger having spouted some rhetoric about Liberty while keeping slaves and at least one concubine locked up in his basement would seem slightly oxymoronic to anyone with some sense of irony.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/01/o...jefferson.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...-found-n771261
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Old 03-17-2019, 12:55 PM
 
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Moochers should be denied, thieves should be shot. That would solve the debate.
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Old 03-17-2019, 01:06 PM
 
Location: Philaburbia
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A anti-medicare and social security and food stamp thread. I like the wording this time! Not misleading at all!
LOL, but "misleading" is too kind.
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Old 03-17-2019, 01:07 PM
 
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Quoting some azzclown Carpetbagger having spouted some rhetoric about Liberty while keeping slaves and at least one concubine locked up in his basement would seem slightly oxymoronic to anyone with some sense of irony.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/01/o...jefferson.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...-found-n771261
He's more likely a fan of Timothy McVeigh than of Thomas Jefferson.

After all Timothy McVeigh was wearing a T-shirt bearing the slogan shouted by John Wilkes Booth as he assassinated Abraham Lincoln, "Sic semper tyrannis" while the back had the quote by Thomas Jefferson.
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Old 03-17-2019, 01:10 PM
 
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He's more likely a fan of Timothy McVeigh than of Thomas Jefferson.

After all Timothy McVeigh was wearing a T-shirt bearing the slogan shouted by John Wilkes Booth as he assassinated Abraham Lincoln, "Sic semper tyrannis" while the back had the quote by Thomas Jefferson.
Well, fellow travellers and all that.
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Old 03-17-2019, 01:15 PM
 
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i like the inclusion of the "moral" it reminds me of how bankers count on the morality of the little man to pay his bills and pay back loans....when we get to business types with the "free market" we run into the common use of "bankruptcy" and then instead of the word "moral" we hear the word "legal"..hence the rights insistence on trumps "legal" bankruptcies and the human beings who are "legal" vs "illegal"
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Old 03-17-2019, 01:25 PM
 
Location: London
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Free market, not government.
Considering that healthcare is a necessity that usually can't simply be shopped around for, the "free market" may as well be the government.

Only difference is, at least government can be changed by voting. Can't exactly say the same for predatory companies.
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Old 03-17-2019, 01:33 PM
 
Location: Metro Detroit, Michigan
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Only difference is, at least government can be changed by voting. Can't exactly say the same for predatory companies.

Predatory companies can be put out of business by smart, informed consumers.


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^Conservatism is just fascism. Prime example.

Than the whole world is fascist, because moochers usually are denied, and thieves usually meet an untimely end. You should see the sick stuff they do to thieves in 3rd world countries...
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