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Similar to how a national health care system would cause people to no longer be chained to their employer because of health care. The current system is whipping to many people into obedience under the false banner of "constitution, freedom and the founding fathers".
What? It sounds as though you are an employee, and have always had health insurance provided for you. People aren't currently chained to their employer for healthcare. I don't agree with the current law, but it requires those not otherwise covered or exempted to buy individual plans on an exchange, and the insurance company is required to accept you and your pre-existing conditions.
No matter how much you wish the USCON to be a 'false banner', it isn't.
Re your text above, 'to many people' is incorrect....'too many people' is correct.
We need to make public education tuition free. Including re-training and community colleges. Quality education and health care should be seen as a birth right, just like the right to own bazookas and machine guns like some people interpret the 2nd amendment.
Well, what is stopping you from contacting those you consent to govern you and let your feelings be known. An Amendment declaring higher education as a right and government using the vast revenues they have to pay for it all.
Got a clue for those that feel education is a right, or should be. If government has to provide it, it is not a right, but only a privilege.
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Correct. It would possibly be the greatest economic paradigm shift of all time. The entirety of society would have to be reordered.
My ghod, I actually agree with you, again.
I'm afraid the transition to automation and smart robots is likely to result in massive crime and starvation. The social safety nets will fail or not be in place long before the masses are protected.
Already I just read where 62 people own as much as all the rest of us, combined. All wealth is concentrating in just a few hands. At some point that money has to be redistributed. Or money as we know it, has to just "go away."
Like on Star Trek - nobody starves because they just go to the replicator and magically a steak dinner appears. Someday automation will allow us just rearrange molecules into whatever we want. 3D printing is a beginning.
Someday mankind will be able to indulge again in exploration and study and recreation, instead of hating and killing each other. And instead of killing ourselves working to feed ourselves. All that will be done by robots and machines.
And then the machines will rise up and kill us ALL!
Interesting article in last weekend's Denver Post about economists 'dusting off' a decades-old idea, proposing a guaranteed basic income for Americans who lose their jobs due to automation:
YOU said it. You'd think even a liberal would be able to understand that you don't have a right to what someone else earned. "We" don't see it as a birthright to a functioning electric network, if you want electricity you PAY for it. You want sewer or septic, you PAY for it.
Medical treatment after 65? You mean the fund people PAID into for decades? You think that's somehow "free"? You really have no idea how things are paid for what so ever, do you.
Since you so strongly feel that people are born without rights, then you should advocate a heavy fine for every time a couple brings forth a child. After all, this world is becoming too heavily populated with people thinking they were born having some sort of rights.
So elect Hilary and allow the politicians to continue raping the nation, to empower the wealthy and politically well connected.
But Trump as a billionaire wants to do the same. Trump was born never to know what living under poverty was like. Do you not know how he as boasted of paying off politicians in order to get what he wanted as a billionaire. Do you have the money to pay off politicians?
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It sounds as though you are an employee, and have always had health insurance provided for you. People aren't currently chained to their employer for healthcare. I don't agree with the current law, but it requires those not otherwise covered or exempted to buy individual plans on an exchange, and the insurance company is required to accept you and your pre-existing conditions.
No matter how much you wish the USCON to be a 'false banner', it isn't.
