Reply #54: Melting Pot

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The whole issue is really not wanting to help "them". Who ever the "others" might be. We are a mixed group. Back in the day, when Universal health care was being set up in other places, it was happening in places that felt more united as a group.

The USA has never felt like that. Never been in that situation. WE don't mind helping our neighbors, just not the 'other' peoples neighbors. Neighbors tend to be similar. In economic status and culture tend to be similar. So you have poor areas and rich areas. Schools use to be funded by the taxes on the areas around the school. That would leave the schools in the poor areas running on very little, compared to the rich areas. So much for 'equal education.' We had to make laws to equal that out. And folks today still complain about their money going elsewhere to help "other' peoples kids.

This goes back to the thinking before the Civil War. When it was thought that if the blacks were freed from slaver, they would be so stupid and lazy, they would all die off. <eye roll> Blacks are just one group. There are many, many groups. The list of undesirables differed based upon location. Italians were low man in New Orleans. Irish on the east coast and as they spread.. everywhere. Germans where not thought to highly off, where they settled. Oh, lets not forget the Natives, which would include Mexicans.

WE will not be able to accept National Healthcare until we can consider everyone truelly Americans. Everyone as neighbors. And stop dividing ourselves up. IF a persons parents where born here, then they should be called Americans.. period. No matter their skin tone. That should be considered just part of their discription. Like hair and eyes.