Reply #18: What a country

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The US will always be a third rate country and a disgrace up until health care is recognized as a right and not a privilige. Until the people making 5.15 an hour receive the same health care as the guy making 150,000 a year, America, the land of the free is a scam.

When the federal government is cutting the WIC program and cutting the school lunch programs and raising the military budget, it's enough of a disgrace.

When people are put out into the street because they suffered a major health crises and can't afford treatment, it's not a shame, it's a crime.

Socialized medicine is the ONLY answer to the growing health care disparity in this, the richest country in the world.

Certain industries should be run by the government for the benefit of all citizens. Public drinking supplies, health care, law enforcement, fire departments, prisons, child welfare.

When profit is brought into these basic human services, a good 1/3 of the people in the country are going to be left behind. Do you think the Cheney's really needed their 8 million dollar tax cut? Of course they did, say the bufoons on the right. As they step over the homeless dying on the streets of our cities with their private security.

America, what a country.

And the biggest scam of all is how all these fortunes of the wealthy were amassed. Natural resources that are supposed to belong to the people. Oil, gas, railroads, media (yeah, the people own the airwaves, sure, all righty!) goverment crony contracts, and on and on and on.

Capitalism is socialism for the well-connected. Oh wait, I'm starting class warfare according to the right. No, they are the ones perpetrating class warfare as the treat the "masses" as their personal slaves on the American Plantation.