Posted by
David R. Lunden on Monday, January 19, 2009 3:11:00 PM
We have all been treated to the old argument "the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer" and it is explained by the widening gap between the two. The "gap" is nothing more than an attractive nuisance. If the poor are getting poorer then, they should have less today than they had yesterday and they should have even less tomorrow. At some point in the future, they should reenter the stone age. The poor are getting richer.
We should not look at "the gap" but rather, why the rich are getting richer at a greater rate.
Rich people are rich because they provide the goods and services the community around them desire. This is being socially responsible. Poor people are poor because they do not provide the goods or services the community around them desire. This is not being socially responsible. When we take from the rich, we impede the rich person's ability to provide goods and services and lessen his ability to be socially responsible. When we give to the poor, we reward the poor for not being socially responsible.
Those who demand taking from one person to give to another are socially irresponsible.
National health care is an example of the above. By taking from a producer to pay for a nonproducer's health care, health care advocates are willing to harm productive people in favor of those who are less productive. Health care advocates are willing to harm people who have done no harm in order to take from them to give to someone else.
If national health care is the right thing to do, then just do it. Laws do not need to be passed to do the right thing. All anyone has to do is to find indigent americans or anyone else for that matter and put them on his health care insurance policy. No one is stopping anyone from doing this. (the insurance companies maybe? change that law) Advocates won't take the lead by paying for the care of others, no, they want to force others, under penalty of pain, to care for those who can't or won't pay full fare.