Article about the alleged "safety net"

[GenuineRisk]

An article contradicting those who say the poor can just go the emergency room for treatment:

http://www.texasobserver.org/a-galve...he-safety-net/

Oh, Texas. Where nine thousand deaths a year is considered acceptable loss for sticking by principles.

[Danzig]

i was flipping stations on the radio a few weeks back, and stumbled across a debate. then i found it was on afr (i can't stand the american family assoc). the people talking (it turns out, not much of a debate, they all were on the same side) were all railing against obamacare. which led me to wonder....

how does the party supposedly so religious, begrudge charity towards the poor? doesn't that stance clash with their so called christian values? they wear bracelets saying wwjd....well, i doubt jesus would be against medical care for the poor.
but, i'm sure the neocons can explain it and justify it.

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i was flipping stations on the radio a few weeks back, and stumbled across a debate. then i found it was on afr (i can't stand the american family assoc). the people talking (it turns out, not much of a debate, they all were on the same side) were all railing against obamacare. which led me to wonder....

how does the party supposedly so religious, begrudge charity towards the poor? doesn't that stance clash with their so called christian values? they wear bracelets saying wwjd....well, i doubt jesus would be against medical care for the poor.
but, i'm sure the neocons can explain it and justify it.

jesus would tell them to get off their butt and get a job that has benefits..
then they could feed their out of wedlock kids..
My wife is helping support those in need, went out bought new sweater made in america..





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[Danzig]

lmao

[joeydb]

Originally Posted by Danzig

how does the party supposedly so religious, begrudge charity towards the poor? doesn't that stance clash with their so called christian values? they wear bracelets saying wwjd....well, i doubt jesus would be against medical care for the poor.
but, i'm sure the neocons can explain it and justify it.

Because confiscatory taxation or mandated redistribution of wealth is not charity. Charity starts with the free giving of something, without coercion, from the giver to the recipient.

I would bet that Jesus would not be for coercion and redistribution by force, backed by the government - whether it be our government or the Roman Empire that ultimately executed him. This is all hypothetical - I don't make a habit of trying to guess what the Almighty thinks, but from what can be read in the Bible, I think he saw charity as the free act of one to another without government involvement.

On a less religious level, do you really expect that just because people are Christian, that they will just go along with a government program that turns their $400/month medical insurance into a $950/month plan with less pertinent coverage for them (or categories they don't need), and higher deductibles? That's the same as saying that the government is taking $550 more a month out of their pockets, and the equivalent food out of their kids mouths. And, the government's action in that case is decidedly un-Christian towards that family, and another step in the direction of tyrrany.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by joeydb

Because confiscatory taxation or mandated redistribution of wealth is not charity. Charity starts with the free giving of something, without coercion, from the giver to the recipient.

I would bet that Jesus would not be for coercion and redistribution by force, backed by the government - whether it be our government or the Roman Empire that ultimately executed him. This is all hypothetical - I don't make a habit of trying to guess what the Almighty thinks, but from what can be read in the Bible, I think he saw charity as the free act of one to another without government involvement.

On a less religious level, do you really expect that just because people are Christian, that they will just go along with a government program that turns their $400/month medical insurance into a $950/month plan with less pertinent coverage for them (or categories they don't need), and higher deductibles? That's the same as saying that the government is taking $550 more a month out of their pockets, and the equivalent food out of their kids mouths. And, the government's action in that case is decidedly un-Christian towards that family, and another step in the direction of tyrrany.

[jms62]

Originally Posted by Danzig

What? Running a country based upon an invisible man in the sky based upon a document that is deemed the best work of fiction ever written doesn't seem like a plan to you?

[joeydb]

Originally Posted by jms62

What? Running a country based upon an invisible man in the sky based upon a document that is deemed the best work of fiction ever written doesn't seem like a plan to you?

Speaking of works of fiction, how about all those "qualifications" that our community organizer president brought with him to the job? Or all the medical care you were going to get for free? That's fiction also.

I see no one wants to take up the salient point, which is that charity and forced compliance with redistribution are two different things.

[Rudeboyelvis]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i was flipping stations on the radio a few weeks back, and stumbled across a debate. then i found it was on afr (i can't stand the american family assoc). the people talking (it turns out, not much of a debate, they all were on the same side) were all railing against obamacare. which led me to wonder....

how does the party supposedly so religious, begrudge charity towards the poor? doesn't that stance clash with their so called christian values? they wear bracelets saying wwjd....well, i doubt jesus would be against medical care for the poor.
but, i'm sure the neocons can explain it and justify it.

I'd love to hear a sane, lucid, thought-provoking answer to this. You would think that somebody could provide one.

It's funny actually, only 4 gospels in the bible actually document his life, and in those 4 books you'd think, as these Christians spout, all he ever gave a crap about was making sure 2 dudes didn't get married, and that you didn't heave stones at your girlfriend/wife's gut to end a pregnancy.


The reality is that he never mentioned homosexuality or ending a pregnancy one single time.

What he did discussed at length however, was that you treat everyone with the same respect and dignity "for what you do to the least you do to me" and to be very weary and fearful of the ultra-wealthy "The love of money above all is the root of evil."

I'd be willing to bet that there is going to be a lot of disappointed "Christians" when they finally get to meet him.

[joeydb]

Originally Posted by Rudeboyelvis

The reality is that he never mentioned homosexuality or ending a pregnancy one single time.

What he did discussed at length however, was that you treat everyone with the same respect and dignity "for what you do to the least you do to me" and to be very weary and fearful of the ultra-wealthy "The love of money above all is the root of evil."

Well I'm pretty sure He would not be for legalized abortion. Those unborn qualify in that statement "for what you do to the least you do to me".

And if he didn't address two dudes getting married as you put it, he also didn't address insider trading, gun control, drunk driving and a lot of other things that have come up over the last 2000 years.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by joeydb

Well I'm pretty sure He would not be for legalized abortion. Those unborn qualify in that statement "for what you do to the least you do to me".

And if he didn't address two dudes getting married as you put it, he also didn't address insider trading, gun control, drunk driving and a lot of other things that have come up over the last 2000 years.

which is why society institutes laws. people like to say that all laws come from the bible, but they don't. or that we can't have morals if we don't go to church or are atheist, also false.

[joeydb]

Originally Posted by Danzig

which is why society institutes laws. people like to say that all laws come from the bible, but they don't. or that we can't have morals if we don't go to church or are atheist, also false.

I made no such assertion. There were written laws going back to the Assyrians and the Code of Hammurabi. Which nobody would want to live under but did ensure there were no second offenders to crimes.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Danzig

people like to say that all laws come from the bible, but they don't. .

Especially seatbelt laws.