THere is something WRONG with the empathy, or lack, of right wingers.

Is this some sort of weird response to my statement about being a foster parent? I'm not religious at all, but I've known quite a few couples in the different agencies I've been a part of that join because of their religious convictions. There were plenty of liberal families too. If you're genuinely concerned I suggest you volunteer. There's always a need, and you can help even if you don't have space in your home.

 

Solutions to problems happen locally far more successfully than they happen globally. You're much better at helping someone in need that's right in front of you then you are by imagining someone's need and fixing the imagined problem with your imagination.

 

How do you establish which human life has more value? And who should establish it? Insurance companies?

 

Another vote for charity.

As for the possibility of either method letting him starve, you are correct. Your method is the same because there's a very good chance the kid should be in school learning how to make his own sandwiches, but it's a lot easier to ask for charity.

 

Yeah we Republicans need to shoot democrat representatives to show empathy...

Oh wait that's liberal empathy.

 

Yes, which is why we have all these different layers of governments, and politicians. Senators are closer to the people they represent than members of congress, just as mayors are closer than governors. So how come everybody is asking the federal government to become a delicatessen?

 

Bill Clinton summed it up best when he said that right-wingers think you're on your own while dems believe that we're in it together.

 

Which group is for letting people who are trying to escape a civil war just die? Which group opposes providing cancer screening for women who can't afford it? Which group is for leaving 20 million people without health insurance, knowing that many of them will die when they can't afford going to the doctor? Which group wants to eliminate the safety net that allows poor children to eat?... and I could go on and on....

If the people on the right does have empathy, then why do they keep electing leaders that don't show it on any of their political fights? None whatsoever!

The left and the right are not equivalent in this country (they might be in others). Do you see that?

 

Purely for illustration.

My point was that, while you have a right to a lawyer, you are still going to be paying unless you literally have nothing to sell.

When you do get your free lawyer....well....someone graduated last in their class.

So while you can say or push for a "right" to health care, it doesn't mean you're going to receive good, or even adequate, care....or that you won't be paying as much as you are now anyway.

EDIT: A good lawyer might not do those things, but they can save your life regardless.

 

great examples of left wing empathy.

 

Sure. I have no problem with legal immigration.

The problem you have with your analogy, is that doctors decide who they accept payment from.

The best doctors and best care will still be outside the reach of those who cannot pay for it.

 

You mean like this?

 

Can you send me some money?

 

No, I'd be interested in why he either can't take care of himself, or if young, isn't being taken care of and fix the root of the problem.

 

I don't establish that. My premise doesn't require that. Yours does. You believe some third party authority should have the ability to determine who can pay and who can't. The third party should have the ability to determine the distribution of a resource. How is that any different? How does that eliminate the value decision you're worried about? It doesn't. It makes it worse because it further removes the decision from the two people that it matters most to, the party receiving the care, and the party providing the care.

 

The real truth is that right wingers want people to be able to feed themselves, the left just wants to keep handing them other people's sandwiches.

 

And my premise is simple. It is immoral to gut healthcare in order to make more money available to people that have so much. To cut capital gains taxes and cut Medicare is wrong. Especially when a poor person earned the same money for gainful employment would be charged as income therefore paying a higher rate.

 

I'm not going to bother reading this hate thread except to ask where was this college professor's compassion for Otto Warmbier?

 

Leftist want to use other people's money to try and fix problems, so they can feel good about themselves. They hardly ever put any skin in the game themselves.

That's why I find most of them pretty detestable.

 

Not sure, but I bet the prof. is both white and well-off.

EDIT:

explained:

 

Just curious, what charities do you donate to?
Where do you volunteer your time?

 

Hey, the bottom line is that the deplorables (Republicans) have in 7 years done nothing to develop a healthcare system. There has been no expert testimony, no studies, no consultations or inclusion of Democrats in the process of developing this rushed, haphazard, half-azzed "bill", –and now, as hard as it is to believe, McConnell plans to bring the actual bill (not the draft) to the floor of Congress at the time Congress will be required to vote on it. How much more does anyone need to know that the Republicans are trying very hard to hide something that cannot stand the light of day? But we already know what that is.

Wait till the people show up in the streets, protesting and demanding single-payer in a reaction to this.

 

What's immoral is taking something that you didn't produce from someone that did without compensation no matter what your motives are. It doesn't matter if you're taking the labor of a doctor, the resources of someone you define as rich, or the choices of a person you define as poor. It's naturally wrong, everyone who participates in society knows it, and it's the downfall of every artificial distribution system the progressives dream up.

 

So taking capital gains is wrong. Got it.