tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13208607.post6929985376456168801..comments2023-10-06T01:45:50.515-07:00Comments on Above The Borderline: Thomas Sowell: Free Market Flip FlopperUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13208607.post-77620434513182490302008-03-25T05:44:00.000-07:002008-03-25T05:44:00.000-07:00I THINK the government should provide everybody wi...I THINK the government should provide everybody with an umbrella to equally protect them from the rain. This would improve the health of the individual.<BR/><BR/>Does it therefore follow that the government should provide umbrellas because I think they should? <BR/><BR/>You're like a kid in Wal-Mart crying to get what you want. What would require the government to pay for people to have children? Isn't that what Hitler did in Nazi Germany? If I want a Corevette, I have to plan and save for it. If you want a bady, you should also plan and save for it. <BR/><BR/>Smells like personal responsibility to me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13208607.post-65023829136019886952008-03-24T18:42:00.000-07:002008-03-24T18:42:00.000-07:00Anon:"Notice that we "think" differently on the is...Anon:<BR/>"Notice that we "think" differently on the issue. I suppose you think you are right and I am wrong."<BR/><BR/>YES!!!<BR/><BR/>"Where is it written that providing these policies are the business of the government?"<BR/><BR/>PLEASE, don't bait me for some asinine Constitutional debate!<BR/><BR/>It is written therefore it's true. Ha!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13208607.post-67151314012254304362008-03-24T06:45:00.000-07:002008-03-24T06:45:00.000-07:00It's interesting to read your response. You "think...It's interesting to read your response. You "think it IS up to the government to have policies that promote the availability of AFFORDABLE health insurance."<BR/><BR/>I think it is not up to the government. I think it is up to the individual to take care of him or herself.<BR/><BR/>Notice that we "think" differently on the issue. I suppose you think you are right and I am wrong.<BR/><BR/>Where is it written that providing these policies are the business of the government?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13208607.post-3984172681375802532008-03-23T22:14:00.000-07:002008-03-23T22:14:00.000-07:00Don't twist the argument Anon.I think it IS up to ...Don't twist the argument Anon.<BR/>I think it IS up to the government to have policies that promote the availability of AFFORDABLE health insurance. The nitwit crowd in control at present have no intentions of promoting those kind of policies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13208607.post-38031328176895896202008-03-23T10:15:00.000-07:002008-03-23T10:15:00.000-07:00If you know it costs $15 grand to have a child, Mr...If you know it costs $15 grand to have a child, Mr. Sowell would assume that you understand the cost of bearing a child and are financially prepared to meet the personal and financial responsibilities of having said child.<BR/><BR/>It's what is call "personal responsibility." Sowell was born in 1930 and few people had health insurance and employer-paid health insurance certainly was a very rare employee benefit.<BR/><BR/>Certainly, you'd agree that whether or not you have health insurance, you should be responsible for the care, feeding and hospital expenses of having a child? You certainly don't think it is up to the government to pay the hospital expenses of having a child?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13208607.post-2610467482797013322008-03-22T20:46:00.000-07:002008-03-22T20:46:00.000-07:00Here's the irony. If you have no insurance you pay...Here's the irony. If you have no insurance you pay more than people with insurance because you're not part of a group that has negotiated a lower price with physicians groups.<BR/>I'd like to this guy get away with no health insurance today. He better not have kids. I'll bet just popping them out costs $15 Grand. a pop.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com