Dupree did a post on universal health care, as only he can, and of course some anon wingnut screamed "socialism" like a trained dog in the comments. Nick clobbered the pod poodle in a reply that included quoting that well known "socialist" - Moses. :7
here's an excerpt but the whole post is worth reading and saving...imho
http://nickdupree.blogspot.com/2007/02/any-valid-social-contract-requires.html....Those who would label universal health care socialism would likely also label universal education socialism, and almost all government socialist. They believe government should not tax you to distribute money elsewhere, the very point of having a government. So they have left our infrastructure in tatters, our bridges unsafe, our children uneducated, our disabled left in their own feces. This ideology declares war on the social contract; it seeks to melt the very glue that binds society together, and has been frighteningly successful.
To those who do not believe in government helping people, and have left our citizens to the jungle, I say your ways have proven destructive, please step aside and let those who believe in government begin to repair the damage.
Giving people the care they need is not socialism, it's Judaism. It's Christianity. It's Buddhism. It's Islam. It's mandated by nearly every religious tradition and moral code, going back to the Code of Hammurabi: "to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land… so that the strong should not harm the weak." There is separation of church and state, but there should never be separation of decency and state, especially in a democracy, where the sovereign IS the people, and the government an expression of their will.
It was Moses who said "If there be among you a needy man, one of thy brethren, within any of thy gates, in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy needy brother; but thou shalt surely open thy hand unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need in that which he wants" (Deut. 15: 7-8) it wasn't Karl Marx who said that. ...
And government should never be a foreign body walled off from the pain of its employers, the people. The government should provide for the basic decency that morality demands, or we better change governments! ...
......check out his closing line at the link :7
oh, and if you are not familiar with Nick check this out...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=974391