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Old 09-24-2015, 11:07 AM
 
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Healthcare is free in some countries, but housing is not, and housing is cheaper and more important.

Housing is cheaper healthcare because it prevents a lot of problems like being mugged or getting lice or bitten by spiders.

You might say, people won't go to work if they don't have to pay rent.

But that's not true.

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were both billionaires, but they still went to work.

I think the CEO of a few companies during the recession worked for $1 a year.

They work cuz they like to work.

I was looking at job postings. For one secretary job, there were sixty applications for that one job. Sixty.

If you cut out the people who wanted to work only to pay rent, maybe they would still get twenty applications for that job. That's still plenty.

I don't think having homeless people benefits anyone. Because then homeless people get mugged or beaten up and then they have expensive police visits or hospital stays.

And housing is cheap compared to the other costs of government like defense and research.

The Iraq war cost like 3 trillion dollars. And more people die to heart attacks than to terrorism.
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Old 09-24-2015, 11:10 AM
 
Location: Sugarmill Woods , FL
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Join the military and you get free housing, health care!
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Old 09-24-2015, 11:31 AM
 
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Join the military and you get free housing, health care!
Yea the military seems like a good deal, especially the Air Force.

You have to qualify, though.
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Old 09-24-2015, 11:34 AM
 
Location: southern california
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we live in an age in america where 46% work. the big question on everybody's mind since 1963.
why isnt greek mythology taught as history?
everything is free right? the government will pay for everything.
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Old 09-24-2015, 11:36 AM
 
Location: NC
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US Military and learn a thing or two....
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Old 09-24-2015, 11:36 AM
 
Location: Secure Bunker
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Yea the military seems like a good deal, especially the Air Force.

You have to qualify, though.

Pretty sure you won't qualify.
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Old 09-24-2015, 11:39 AM
 
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Healthcare is free in some countries, but housing is not, and housing is cheaper and more important.

Housing is cheaper healthcare because it prevents a lot of problems like being mugged or getting lice or bitten by spiders.

You might say, people won't go to work if they don't have to pay rent.

But that's not true.

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were both billionaires, but they still went to work.

I think the CEO of a few companies during the recession worked for $1 a year.

They work cuz they like to work.

I was looking at job postings. For one secretary job, there were sixty applications for that one job. Sixty.

If you cut out the people who wanted to work only to pay rent, maybe they would still get twenty applications for that job. That's still plenty.

I don't think having homeless people benefits anyone. Because then homeless people get mugged or beaten up and then they have expensive police visits or hospital stays.

And housing is cheap compared to the other costs of government like defense and research.

The Iraq war cost like 3 trillion dollars. And more people die to heart attacks than to terrorism.
The healthcare in those countries is not free. The change is how the people in those countries pay for it, instead of paying for services received at the time of service the people of those countries pay for healthcare through taxes.
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Old 09-24-2015, 11:41 AM
 
Location: NE Ohio
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Who would be paying for it?
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Old 09-24-2015, 11:52 AM
 
Location: Rust'n in Tustin
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Why don't Govs Provide free Housing.
Because there's no such thing as "free". Somebody is always paying for it.
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Old 09-24-2015, 11:58 AM
 
Location: DFW
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Cars should be free from Govt Motors also.
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