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IMHO one of the most crucial longstanding debates in this society concerns this particular question , which is why I'm curious to read the take of the good people who visit this forum regarding it .
I'll probably weigh in with my own opinion later , but for now I'll leave the opening salvo to someone else/other people .
No. You can't support 1/4 to 1/3 of the population thinking they can just get basic incomes and be supported by government for life without having to work. I do look forward to the day robots can do everything and we can have a star trek like society, but we are not technologically advanced enough yet. We also have human nature and human psychology to deal with. People without long term goals in life often end up with anxiety, depression, on drugs, etc. A lot of the things progressives promote paradoxically actually make people less happy in the long term because they focus on how people feel in the moment and not what would make them happy in 10 years. Long term planning is key. Teach a person to fish. Don't just give them fish forever.
What type of needs? Basic human rights? Yes (everyone can have equal rights)
Basic human needs like food, shelter, & water? I think it’s possible.
Healthcare needs? It’s possible
Yes, if you are talking about freedom to chose who and what you want to do with your life (within the law of course). Quit looking to the government for your daily needs. The government's money is actually other people's money which you have no right to.
What type of needs? Basic human rights? Yes (everyone can have equal rights)
Basic human needs like food, shelter, & water? I think it’s possible.
Healthcare needs? It’s possible
Just in general , in keeping with the generalist theme of this thread .
If the government would just stop giving any benefits based on anything but household income (with the number of people in the household factored in), I think all this favoritism would just stop.
And stop with any kind of quotas or Affirmative Action kind of BS. Until about two years into the Obama administration, I did support both of those things, but now I think they do more harm than good because just to give one example, I would not want to have a young black or Latino doctor because chances are very good that their MCAT scores and academic history were not as good as their white or Asian counterparts. (I have posted the link many times, but I am not going to do so now because it takes quite a bit of digging to find it.) And if they were "weeded out" after being admitted, that is taxpayer money wasted if they had received college financial assistance. Sorry if that is "racist", but it is what I think based on what I have read.
I never thought that way before because I thought that if a black or Latino had a professional job, that meant that he or she had to be extremely intelligent and hard-working to get ahead in the U.S. (and in fact, we had a black dentist at one point even though we lived in about a 90% Euro-white suburb, although his skin color had nothing to do with choosing him). But now, with all the coddling of blacks and, especially Hispanics taking place (or at least in Colorado where I spent the last 30 years), I have almost the opposite view -- and, yes, I know that is unfair and probably racist, and I am not happy about feeling that way, so I truly am sorry for feeling, thinking, and believing what I do now.
(And I'm leaving this thread now because I am 99% sure that I am going to be excoriated for this post, and maybe rightfully so.)
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