>>34
Today, a huge majority of people support Social Security because they realize the good it does for society.
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That doesn't mean everyone supports it and as long as they are forced to pay for it it is theft.
I support government intervention, only, and if only, it benefits society. DHS, National Security and others pretend to benefit society, but for nefarious reasons, do not. I don't support that kind of intervention.
With that logic you can almost justify all government action as benefiting society the problem is when people disagree with what your preferences are and you are in the majority. In this system the majority can always impose their will on the minority (democracy). You might say the constitution is supposed to prevent that but the majority control even that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_DBy34NRlY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoGLqKRPRt0
It should be obvious. The United States lags and lacks behind other Western World nations in education. We're at number 22 in rank last I checked, and a lot of that has to do with the fact that education isn't as valued both culturally, institutionally, and politically these days. Naturally, having terribly unfunded and under subsidized education causes a long-term brain drain for the country. This is incredibly harmful to society, and will only get worse until those who deny it finally admit it and publicly address it.
Only problem with your theory is that we don't truly have a free market in the US and many institutions are government funded which lowers the incentive for good results and instead only give the minimum requirement of work. (EX:Teachers unions)
>>36
I agree. I have no problem with profit for other things that aren't directly related to a person's health. But when you have profit-run entities that directly affect people's well-being and survivability, people do things that they wouldn't normally do under a not-for-profit health care system.
Well everyone doesn't value health like you do, so why is your value more important than someone elses?
People don't even have to be "money hungry" or "evil", it's an institutional problem that correlates with the fact that profit is the motive, and not being specifically aimed at looking out for the welfare of the public's health in and of itself.
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