Originally Posted by Mircea
There's nothing racist about it.
Social welfare programs are best administered by the States, if for no other reason than the Cost-of-Living varies so incredibly across the US, that the only thing federal programs do is unjustly reward others while doing nothing to help others.
Your Cost-of-Living varies so greatly across the US that a single retiree receiving $1,201/month in Social Security benefits earns too much money to qualify for HUD Section 8 housing in many areas of the US.
Meanwhile, another single retiree receiving the maximum Social Security benefit of $2,788/month, plus a pension of $1,878/month, for a total of $4,666/month qualifies for HUD Section 8 housing in some areas of the US.
We can use the actual data:
$56,000 - $14,400 = $41,600
or express it as an hourly wage rate:
$26.92/hour - $6.92/hour = $20/hour
That's how tremendous the difference really is, and in reality, the difference is even greater than that.
The person making $6.92/hour is not in poverty. Maybe you can't live on $6.92/hour, but Millions of others can and do.
And, the person earning $6.92/hour has the exact same identical Life-Style as the person making $26.92/hour.
Who makes more money, the person in Cincinnati earning $35,000 or the person in White Plains (New Jersey) making $70,000?
The person in Cincinnati earns $10,000 more per year.
You could live in each one's home for a month and it would be totally impossible for you to tell the difference, because they have identical homes, identical cars, identical clothing, apparel, accessories and shoes, identical TVs and furniture and everything else.
The only difference is the person in Cincinnati only needs $25,000 to have all the same things the person in White Plains earning $70,000 has and the person in Cincinnati has an extra $10,000 a year to play with.
Does it make sense for the federal government to give everyone $520/month in SNAP benefits?
No.
That $520/month will buy $1,200 worth of food in some places, but only $350 worth of food in other places.
How fair is that?
How could you possibly justify that?
I've asked that question of numerous Liberals on the forum and not one has ever had the guts to answer, because they know they're wrong.
As far as healthcare, your federal and State governments, and the American Hospital Association are totally responsible for the mess you have.
All States have to do is repeal one or two laws, and there's no such thing as "Out-of-Network." All insurance is "In-Network" after that.
The federal government needs only to repeal one law, and the States need to repeal all of their insurance laws, and you can go back to tying life insurance with catastrophic health insurance.
You pay premiums for 10 years, then you never pay another dime, but you and your spouse (and minor children) are covered for the rest of your lives, and when you die, you leave that money to your named beneficiaries, like your children or grandchildren (or charities if you have no children or don't want them to have money).
Why don't you want Lower Middle Class and Lower Class families to generate wealth and pass it on?
Why are you opposed to that?
In addition to catastrophic insurance, everyone should be able to buy $25,000 to $5 Million worth of emergency room coverage as they see fit.
Where's the sense in making seniors and the elderly buy pregnancy/maternity coverage, plus buy birth control coverage?
People should only buy what they need, instead of having it crammed down their throats.
You rail about oil monopolies, and yet you don't even blink when hospital monopolies and cartels illegally collude to illegally charge prices far above market rates.
What are you doing about that?
Before you start screwing everyone with universal healthcare, you need to do everything possible to reduce prices, and to do that, you need only break up the monopolies and cartels, and repeal a few thousand federal and State laws.
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