Reply #7: The Repugs are Persistent [View All]

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It seems they keep fielding ways to break our safety nets to see how the flag will fly. Why not stick your foot in the door and see if you can make the sale before somebody can slam it shut?

The spirit of entitlement lessened? Handout? That is a hysterical tragedy in practice. It can be viewed as an example of manipulative Newspeak that conveys a message that what each of us pays out for a common provision for care and well being is somehow nothing more than a handout. They even pervert the meaning of the entitlement itself to confuse people with some notion that what you are entitled to by social contract is some form of charity.

If there is no right to anything concerning basic needs when you are not able to obtain the ways and means to procure them and then are told that you must earn them, regardless of your circumstances, then what meaning or value does rights, dignity and the value of each of us have?

The value of our care of the poor, the sick, the old is immeasurable and vital to all of us because we do not exist separately, in a Randian illusion of complete Independence. There will be a greater price to pay, by those who are able-bodied or financially viable in this society. It will be paid with with a greater percentage of interest and thusly, be far more expensive in ways that go beyond financial costs, to pay.