Anonymous #1 4w

How do you get them?

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Anonymous #1 4w

Because participating in society, particularly one as accommodating and secure as the United States, is a privilege. If you want something, you must do work to get it. That is an immutable fact of being a living creature. If you want food and sustenance for free, there are parts of the world that are unoccupied and unmonitored by a government. Live off the land there. But if you want anything more, you must pay.

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Anonymous #3 4w

It really sucks because I wish we could just whip up some healthcare out of thin air and shower it down on the people who need it. But we can’t. I think helping those in need is innate enough to the human social construct. Funding programs like Medicaid (which oc could be improved) and others with taxpayer dollars the way we do is good, but much more creates a diminishing return. Regardless, suggesting it be free is ignorant of what makes healthcare possible.

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Anonymous #2 4w

For free, from the earth. Water. In some parts of the US it's illegal to harvest rainwater.

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Anonymous OP 4w

We can it's called funneling more money into social security and stop wasting money on the military we don't need to use.

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Anonymous #1 4w

But how do you stop social security from being abused by the government?

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Anonymous #1 4w

We do spend the majority of our money on entitlement programs. But I agree that we can cut some areas for healthcare specifically to improve

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Anonymous #2 4w

Abused how? Elect people that are actually fit for office and not trump people who steal money and kill helpful programs. Not complicated.

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Anonymous #1 4w

I think you’re referring to Colorado. If you look at it from a different angle, large-scale rainwater in a drier state can be harmful. You’re essentially diverting water that would have otherwise reached a river or stream, and that can have ecological (and economic) consequences. Colorado and some other Western states also seem to have some sort of system where the first one to start collecting water from a source have priority over other users that may arrive upstream later on (feels weird tho)

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Anonymous #2 4w

Wdym with social security being abused?

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Anonymous #1 4w

By the government pulling from social security (both parties do it so don’t like it’s one side) to fund their government pet projects and pet programs. This is risk anytime you give the government control over money. Anytime you give the government the authority over anything there is always a trade off. Anytime you give the government control over your money (in pooling) there is a risk that money is hogged. It’s the exact same problem as private insurance.

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Anonymous #2 4w

Healthcare funding fraud is being discovered everywhere, and that money is being used for influence, as politicians allow that money to be stolen in order to stay in office and hold power.

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Anonymous #2 4w

And the worst part is that takes away the funds that are supposed to go the actual needy, and what’s left is a lack of funding, because a large amount of the money is stolen from fraudulent grants and such.

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Anonymous #2 4w

Is it that direct? Or is the government just buying treasuries with SS money, and the proceeds from those sales are used for government spending?

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Anonymous #2 4w

The problem is the government is allowing it to happen and if the government is given more influence or control over healthcare there is very little to say that the fraud wouldn’t get worse.

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Anonymous #2 4w

Government accountability is a completely different issue

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Anonymous #5 4w

The point is that SS is not a revenue account. Is supposed to be a government managed retirement account. But like I said anytime you give the government control of anything there is a trade off, as well as a risk.

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Anonymous #1 4w

Government accountability is direct connected to this issue. Anytime you give the government more power or influence the less room for accountability there is.

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Anonymous #2 4w

It's very easy to force government accountability

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Anonymous #1 4w

How would you achieve accountability from your perspective?

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Anonymous #2 4w

Vote for government accountability over personal beliefs.

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Anonymous #1 4w

That implies three things. First that people must put their own moral convictions aside (I know for a fact that a large number of people they will not do that, especially if they are religious) Second that an overwhelming number of people believe the same person will bring accountability (which is not true). Third that the elections haven’t been adjusted to a point where they give an advantage to a particular group that has secured a large amount of power and has been over a long time.

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Anonymous #3 4w

This section is how it always should be. I hate arguing over personalities. It gets no where. Instead I prefer debating policy.

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