Which the government has a responsible to provide for all? Yes wicket, that is the real question I pose.
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Sure, why not. Put the last coupla nails into coffin of a free & independent. US.
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Yes. and don't forget toilet paper, that too is a basic human right. Ask not what you can do for your country...ask for free toilet paper!
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with a supposed depression coming . is it time for people to embrace socialism/communism ? that is the real question you pose
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Um, I'm confused...hasn't the federal gov't already accomplished this? All you have to do is quit working, stopping paying your mortgage and be a union person...done!
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I don't think a depression is coming so, no you shouldn't declare those rights.
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its my own responsibility to provide for all of those things for myself. the government doesnt create things out of nothing. anything they give someone was taken from someone else.
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government shouldn't provide anything. No one should give them anymore power, they are only meant to protect our rights, military.
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Yes and no...people should still have to work. Not sit at home and collect all the free money they can get. That is what is wrong with our welfare system now....always someone abusing it.
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Yes. As the democrats say: "It's all Free".
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No. If you want food, health care, housing, and a job you'll have to work and earn them, as usual.
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No, no, no, no and again I say NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This big bad world owes us NOTHING and neither DOES THE FRIGGIN' GOVERNMENT!!! If you want to live like this, move to North Korea or China; I'm sure you'll fit right in over there.
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Yes, I think the government should start thinking about the welfare of the people. Giving money to big business is not going to help the middle class buy products once the manufacturers get out of dept. If the middle class was helped first, then they could buy the products to help manufacturers and businesses.
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I would like to hire people like Su Lin. I can make her work 80 hours plus, pay her a substandard wage and give her no benefits whatsoever. With close to 10 million people unemployed, I can replace her if I didn't like the shoes she wore one day. And with the shortages of jobs, almost all employers will feel the same way I do. She could start her own business, but just don't become my competitor, because I will crush her in the open market and make it impossible for her to turn any kind of profit. And if she does become a threat, I'll lobby Congress to intervene.
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the government is not responsible for giving you anything except protection. Those things, food, housing etc., are necessities, not rights!
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Just checked the United States Constitution and The Bill of Rights. None of these are in there.
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NOPE...that is Socialism and it (like liberals) DOES NOT WORK
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LHFP, I hope you're being sarcastic, because if you're serious, then we are doomed to become slaves of the US gov't. There is no such thing as "free."
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While it's a noble idea and in a perfect world all of those would be true and everyone would do their fair share to make it so, we're not their yet. I mean, how would one make jobs a human right? Don't you think that it would water down efficiency? Which in turn would water down currency, which in turn would water down the markets and the economy and just set us back a few decades? I don't know, in theory communism is a wonderful idea, but in practice you'll find that people are lazy and the truth is that some people just don't deserve jobs. Also, let's not jump the shark on the depression notion. It's possible but I still have my doubts.
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Since we no longer live in a society where you can really afford to go out in the wilderness anymore and carve out a decent life but are pretty much relegated to working for a big corporation or a small business food stamps don't seem to be such a bad idea- particularly since one stealth bomber can cost nearly a billion dollars and will in all likelihood never be used to protect our own borders but those in whom our corporations have numerous assets and interests. I have no problem with a little socialism here and there to fill in the gaps of employment experienced by many hard working individuals- should this encourage people not to seek employment or lay around and have numerous children? Absolutely Not! That would be socialism of the worst kind and I don't wish to pay for it.
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4 out of 5 cities don't have enough money to support their cities which means they are in debt. The local polititian who was telling about this on tv was suggesting we get guns because he believes the police will eventually not answer the phones right way if at all & you need a gun to protect yourself if they never get there....so fear is a subject that needs to be addressed This is so sad that we got to this point. We won't have any rights with a depression. People will just die like they did during Katrina. We are a country of out of sight out of mind. Condi was on TV the other day trying to accuse the Pakistanies of the shootings in India. But I don't believe they did it yet she is helping India to go to war when they don't to do that. Then I saw McCain happy as can be with Lieberman & Graham going to India to stick there noses where they don't belong. So this group of people needs to be stopped but people are more concerned about whether Obama's mother at 18 & in college in Hawaii gave birth to him in another country.
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A depression is when there's no cash in the system. Debt has to be serviced. This leaves no cash for new purchases. Once demand dries up jobs decrease and suddenly even the debt isn't serviced. Increasing credit isn't really an answer because if you're not employed you can't get credit and businesses won't borrow to increase production because there's no demand. There are a lot of moving parts to this, but the situation isn't that difficult to figure out. The 'government' over the years has allowed itself to become the lap dog of the trans-national corporations. The government allowed this situation to develop. While the Bush Junta waved the flag and cross in the public's face they accelerated the trend of lowering taxes for corporations and allowing them to move overseas or to use their profits to buy up other corporations to increase market share. We got what we paid for......we paid to get screwed and that's what we got. Now the 'government' needs to be returned to the side of the American wage-earner, and if that means using what cash we can scare up to provide for housing, health insurance and groceries, that's what had better be done. Ignoring the working class is the most deadly thing a society can do.
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Sorry but food, health care, housing and jobs were never a "right" as determined by the constitution. We have the right for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. A government that is big enough to give you everything is big enough to take everything away. - Thomas Jefferson
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