On this day in 1775, Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me liberty, or give me death." He never did mention anything about healthcare.
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He also didn't mention anything about cars, trains, computers, corn, pepsi, youtube, light bulbs, Aritha Franklin, Rome, WiFi, cookies, jewelry, or ceramic pottery. See how much of a non-sequitur all those are? Yours is just as bad.
"On this day in 1775, Patrick Henry proclaims: "Give me liberty, or give me death." He never did mention anything about health care."
Or Interstate highways. Or a standing army. Or a post office. Or an airport. Or people that watch blips on little screens to ensure that those big metal flying things in the sky don't crash into one another. Or a bus station. Or an Internet. Or vaccinations. Or safe prescription medications that have been tested to ensure they're effective and safe. Or clean water. Or sewage. Or a 40-hour work week. Or ambulances. Or fire trucks. Or police cars. Or an agency that helps ensure the meat I purchase is not bursting with bacteria. Or equal rights for all regardless of race/ethnicity. Or space shuttles. Or landing men on the moon.
I agree with #1142113. In fact, this argument, while pretty tenuous here in the real world, is startlingly sane by Conservapedia standards.
He never did mention anything about healthcare.
And neither did he mention Conservapedia, so fuck off you braindead imbecile!
Ok I have to know. Why are you so fixated to what some people thought and said hundreds of years ago? Can't you think for yourselves? Do you have to go back and see what someone else, living in a completely different time, would have done? Just because someone lived long ago does not mean you should obey what you think they wanted back then.
As others have said, it's probably because they had no concept of healthcare, don't you think? Oh right, you don't.
Liberty to go see a doctor just in case?
Liberty to go to a hospital and get treatment?
Liberty to not be an indentured slave to your medical bills?
Once again, I can't for the life of me even begin to comprehend this. The government is stepping in and flat out offering to pay for all your medical expenses. No strings attached. The professional accountants have shown the math, this can actually save money, for everyone. Everyone else that has ever done this has loved it. It's obviously evil...
Liberty means choice. Y'know, what America is supposed to be all about.
Many choose to pay medical insurance (but hey, if you want to be ripped off by money-grubbing profiteers who are in it purely for the sake of their shareholders, you go right ahead). But there's some who don't have that choice.
Some 40 million Americans.
Care to explain to them why they can't have access to medical care? Ergo, Obama's Health Reform Bill. QED.
Why do you hate Freedom, Jpatt & everyone on Conservapoodia?
@ Vince --
The government is stepping in and flat out offering to pay for all your medical expenses. No strings attached.
Nah, that would be real universal health care, which would be unacceptable to political donors from the health insurance and drug companies. Instead, we have a bill shoveling public money to said companies in exchange for offering policies to low- and middle-income Americans that we'll never be able to afford to use because of the copays and deductibles. Slightly better than the GOP "it's a good thing that getting sick will drive you into poverty" approach, but still not real reform.
So just because health care wasn't written into the U.S. Constitution then we shouldn't allow anyone to have it? Did you realize that in 1775 going to the doctor was likely to be worse for you than just being sick? They still thought that illness was caused by demons back then, or else could be cured by bloodletting.
So I guess my point is that we've come a long way in the past 235 years, and just because they didn't have universal health care back then doesn't mean we shouldn't have it now.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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