Free health insurance is a controversial subject today. The answer seems to be either provide coverage for all, or let people fend for themselves. Trying to make ends meet in today’s economy has become very difficult. Hourly wages are not going up nearly as fast as the cost of living. It seems the majority of the workers are blue collar, and to claim this is their choice is true. But someone does have to be the laborer. Someone has to work in the factories, learn the mechanics of an automobile, take care of the children in the day care centers. In 2005, the lower-middle-class and the working-class citizens each made up 32% of the population. The lower-class consisted of 14-20% (Demographics of the United States, 2005 www.wikipedia.org).
So we are faced with the problem of people not making enough to cover their own health care. Should the waitress who works at the local diner be denied health care for herself and her child if her employer doesn’t offer it? Or if the premium is as mighty as she will execute in a week? It’s heartless to tell her-and many others-to go get a better job. Especially with today’s job market. However, there is a percentage of the population that wants to take without giving, does not want to contribute to their physical well-being. These people want the taxpayers, the government to take care of them. They are fine with living on welfare, trying to get disability. In short, living off of others. Whether it be their family members or society, they don’t care.
The dilemma is to provide for those who are working hard and can’t fabricate it. In 2006, 37.7 million were uninsured due to the individuals not being able to afford the high premiums, or the businesses did not offer group insurance. 8.7 million of these were children (National Coalition on Health Care). The total figure is 47 million as of 2008(www.nchc.com). Surely, if it was us, we would want someone or somewhere to turn to. Affordable health care has been mentioned throughout the political discussions that have been going on. Providing insurance at a lower rate, on a sliding scale, could be affordable to the many that are facing choosing between health and car insurance.
Many of us who have worked hard our whole lives, who feel we have paid our dues, are not happy with the the idea of higher taxes to pay for health care for those who cannot afford it. We look at the socialized medicine of other countries, and believe our taxes will skyrocket, and our own access to health care will plummet. This is probably true. I am not advocating free health care for every American. I do think there might be a solution if we look a little closer.
Let’s catch back to those who don’t want to do for themselves. They don’t want to do for others either, and many of these people have children. Should the children suffer because of their choices? Do we have the lawful to make that decision? As long as we continue to do nothing, we are making that decision.
references; www.wikipedia.org Demographics of the United States 2005-2008
www.nchc.com National Coalition on Health Care
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Contrary to widespread notion, free markets do not substitute self-interest for morality. Free markets enable moral action by channeling existing self-interest into conduct benefiting both the individual and those around him. Free markets harmonize self-interest and morality by ensuring that individuals prosper by bringing principal services to others. Furthermore, free markets have inaugurated some of history’s greatest moral advances – including the advent of religious toleration in the Western world. Free markets execute widespread correct improvement by facilitating peaceful coexistence of divergent beliefs, preferences, and behaviors – eliminating enforced homogeneityof ideas, tastes, and actions.
Self-interest does not represent market systems alone; humans exhibit self-interest universally. Frederic Bastiat noted that “[s]elf-preservation and self-development are common aspirations among all people.”[1] Self-interest is simply the desire to improve one’s condition; by itself, it does not necessitate any particular course of action. The behaviors resulting from self-interest can vary dramatically depending on the incentives individuals face. Do the incentives enable individuals to gain through their own hard work and honesty? Or do the incentives favor individuals plundering one another? Bastiat notes, “[S]ince man is naturally inclined to avoid pain – and since labor is afflict in itself – it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work.”[2] Thus, all human societies face the challenge of establishing incentives whereby individuals will always perceive work as easier than plunder. Individuals of diverse moral persuasions will agree that earning one’s wealth via honest production is superior to seizing it from another. Hence, a system that enables honest production to prevail over plunder would accomplish tremendous moral improvement relative to alternatives.
Ayn Rand identifies free-market capitalism as “a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.”[3] Under a purely free market, each individual has his own realm – comprised of his body, ideas, actions, and possessions – all subsumed under the concept of property. Through property rights, free markets render work easier than plunder. As Peter Hill argues, “[u]nder a region of well-defined and enforced property rights, the only transactions people engage in are ‘positive-sum’ or wealth-creating transactions, those that occur because all parties to the transaction believe they will be better off as a result.”[4] If each individual is absolutely sovereign over his property, then he would only use this property in ways he believes will improve his own condition. But this is also the case for anyone with whom that individual interacts. Thus, any interaction in a free market only occurs if all parties deem themselves better off thereby. No individual would permit himself to be victimized or plundered; no individual would consent to actions he deems detrimental to his self-interest. If anybody in a free market tried to forcefully expropriate an individual, the law would quickly assist the victim. One of a private property system’s defining characteristics is that “a person who injures another or damages another’s property is responsible for the damages, and courts enforce this responsibility.”[5] Thus, a zero-sum world where one can gain only if another loses is impossible under free-market capitalism.
On the other hand, a zero-sum situation often occurs in the absence of well-defined property rights – be it under a Hobbesian “war of all against all,”[6] where no generally recognized scheme of property rights exists, or under centralized control. The only alternatives to free markets in principle are the lawless tyranny of strong criminals over their victims and the centrally-planned tyranny of a much stronger group of men, exerting its will over an entire population. Both criminals and government planners can “obtain command over resources without obtaining the consent of the owners of the resources.”[7] Virtually all real-world societies contain some “mixture” of all three elements – private crime, government control, and free markets – but the free-market element alone creates wealth in every society, while private crime and government control result in zero-sum transfers of wealth from those who created it to those who did not. There is widespread agreement that earning one’s wealth is moral, whereas expropriating it is immoral. Only free markets can ensure that people benefit from the fruits of their own labor. The more prevalent free markets are in a society, the more honest production and commerce will predominate over theft, coercion, wealth redistribution, and victimization.
But free markets go far beyond ensuring that each individual has the right to withhold what he has earned. They channel individuals toward providing goods and services that other people want. If only voluntary persuasion is a permitted means of acquiring another person’s association, patronage, or property, then providing services that others value is the primary free-market path to personal secure. Whole Foods founder John Mackey notes that “the most successful businesses put the customer first, ahead of the investors,” but Milton Friedman recognizes that this is truly “the way to achieve the investors first.”[8] No dichotomy exists between the well-being of a business’s investors and that of its consumers; what is good for one benefits the other.
A free market also permits individuals to act outside of the realm of commerce, transforming their bear property or objects from the spot of nature for their hold benefit – but trading greatly enhances the range of goods and services an individual can obtain. From the inception of human societies, this recognition led individuals to exchange for mutual benefit. According to Ludwig von Mises, “The fundamental facts that brought about cooperation, society, and civilization and transformed the animal man into a human being are… that work performed under the division of labor is more productive than isolated work and that man’s reason is capable of recognizing this truth.”[9] By maximizing the scope of voluntary value-trading, free markets also broaden the range of social cooperation and civilized, harmonious interactions among individuals. This is the principal social purpose of free markets, which Milton Friedman describes as “a sophisticated means of enabling people to cooperate in their economic activities without compulsion.”[10]
Most people will agree that a society that tolerates various religious and non-religious persuasions is ethically superior to a society that does not. The advent of religious toleration in the West illustrates free markets’ indispensable role in broadening civilized human interactions. The bloody religious wars and political persecutions of the 16th and 17th centuries resulted from attempts by European governments to centrally opinion their subjects’ beliefs. “Traditionally, France (along with most other European nations) had attempted to enforce a homogeneous system of values upon its people in the belief that common values were necessary to ensure peace and harmony.”[11] But, in the early 18th century, a different pattern began to emerge in England – despite official protections for Anglicanism as the established state religion. The growth of commercial freedom in England triggered an unprecedented degree of religious toleration. Voltaire, in his “Letters Concerning the English Nation,” observed this phenomenon:
Go into the Exchange in London, that position more venerable than many a court, and you will contemplate representatives of all the nations assembled there for the profit of mankind. There the Jew, the Mahometan, and the Christian deal with one another as if they were of the same religion, and reserve the name of infidel for those who go bankrupt.[12]
Because they were free to trade with one another and perceived commerce’s mutual benefits, individuals of all religions in England were willing to overlook shining disagreements and focus on areas where they could gain from associating with one another. This case exemplifies Hill’s insight that “participants in a market economy – buyers and sellers – continually look for areas of agreement where they can pick up along, rather than concentrating unproductively on areas of disagreement.”[13]
Religious toleration and unprecedented intellectual freedom emerged in 18th-century England while continental regimes such as the French monarchy continued to pursue both commercial and intellectual homogeneity. Wendy McElroy notes that “A key to the difference between England and France lay in the English system of commerce and in the comparatively high regard in which the English held their merchants. In France, aristocrats and the other elites of society regarded those in commerce, or in trade, with unalloyed contempt.”[14] The French economy was characterized by virtually ubiquitous central planning – imposed by Jean-Baptiste Colbert under Louis XIV. Colbertism[15] consisted of manifold economic restrictions – including government-protected monopolies, punitive taxation, enormous tariff barriers to trade, limitations on economic mobility, and minute government oversight of the quantity and quality of output. Under Colbertist central planning, religious toleration’s economic benefits did not become obvious – because individuals were prohibited from freely trading with one another anyway. Thus, it was easier for France’s government to crack down on religious dissent and forcefully impose Roman Catholicism – culminating in Louis XIV’s 1685 Edict of Fontainebleau[16], which revoked religious toleration for the Huguenot Protestants.
On the other hand, in England, because freedom of commerce made the advantages of inter-religious cooperation obvious to many, Voltaire observed that “the Presbyterian trusts the Anabaptist, and the Church of England man accepts the promise of the Quaker.”[17] While France was engulfed in perpetual religious strife and bloodshed, England – with its far greater diversity of faiths – flourished peacefully. Voltaire was among the first to gawk that enforced homogeneity of values undermined a factual social order. He noted, “If there were only one religion in England, there would be pain of tyranny; if there were two, they would cut each other’s throats; but there are thirty, and they live happily together in peace.”[18] Voltaire’s observations regarding England are echoed in James Wilson’s plan that in free markets, “religion must coexist with human freedom, and this relationship, of necessity, requires religious freedom. With such freedom, many sects will prosper, and none will be the sole state church.”[19] A free market entails not only freedom to exchange physical commodities, but also to exchange religious or secular ideas. Commercial and brilliant freedom are inseparable; where one exists, the other surely follows. In late 18th-century England, religious toleration existed de jure, not just de facto.
Free markets not only facilitate official religious toleration; they also enable individuals of diverse belief systems to be nice to one another in their private interactions. Being an atheist sufficed to salvage one imprisoned anywhere in 17th-century Europe; it sufficed to get one burned at the stake during the Middle Ages. Even immediately after suitable sanctions against atheism were lifted, non-religious individuals were subjected to widespread social stigma. But today, virtually everywhere in the Western world, an atheist can walk into a store or restaurant and be served with the same courtesy and respect as can a member of one of thousands of religious denominations. In free markets an atheist’s money is as good as a Christian’s or a Hindu’s; prudent businessmen recognize this.
Similarly, any individual’s money is expedient, irrespective of that individual’s race, gender, or country of origin. Thus, Wilson observes, free-market capitalism “will find racial discrimination burdensome, thus helping put an end to it… [Bigotry] shuts a firm off from many potential customers and… potential workers, thus lowering sales and raising labor costs.”[20] Once laws upholding segregation in the American South were repealed, racism’s social incidence plummeted – fair as once state-sanctioned religious mandates and prohibitions were removed, social toleration quickly emerged. As free-market commerce encourages individuals to treat one another with kindness and respect, people originate to actually deem one another worthy of such treatment. What may begin as a prudential policy for cultivating more customers and sales becomes ingrained into people’s habits and worldviews; Wilson observes that free-market incentives to treat customers with respect “produce more than mere pretense; they actually change behavior.”[21] A majority in today’s Western world genuinely believes that race does not affect a person’s character and that atheists or practitioners of a religion different from one’s own are most often good, enthralling, vital people.
Free markets are the foremost institution for human moral improvement. Throughout most of history, people lived in a zero-sum world of widespread plunder, oppression, poverty, and stagnation. Only through commercial freedom and private property rights have there emerged societies where individuals can hold most of what they have created and centralized authorities do not violently impose homogeneous beliefs on the population. Free markets in the West have created an environment where tens of thousands of competing religions and philosophies can thrive and hasten and ethnicity no longer determine individuals’ socioeconomic standing. Free markets’ immense victories over enforced homogeneity enable our comfortable, prosperous, civil everyday lives.
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1 Friday I developed a massive on-air mistake I attempted to, in reply to criticism on an additional blog, provide feasible solutions to the overreaching great authorities expansion and its assault on particular person liberty My error was in not becoming prepared well sufficient to defend my points It was the 1st, and hopefully last, time I will ever underestimate my audience
The caller questioned my stand on Societal Protection and, even while time constraints did not enable me to construct a top quality reply, much better preparation in defense of my views would have answered a lot of the caller’s concern Interpersonal Safeness is the single biggest political problem in our country I say that due to the fact that a majority of Americans are effected by it, and I say it when you consider that assistance for Sociable Safety is the single most beneficial summation of citizenry’s role in permitting the growth of our federal bureauracracy I will make my case:The Interpersonal Safeness Act was drafted throughout Franklin Roosevelt’s initially term by the President’s Committee on Economic Secureness, underneath Frances Perkins, and passed by Congress as portion of the New Deal The act was an try to limit what had been seen as dangers in the modern American life, such as old age, poverty, unemployment, and the burdens of widows and fatherless kids, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societal_Secureness_(United_States)By dollars compensated, the U.S Interpersonal Safety measures plan is the largest authorities plan in the world and the single greatest expenditure in the federal spending budget, with twenty.8 for discretionary defense and twenty.1 of federal government expenditure and 7 Usually, persons who work for a lot more than 35 years get a decrease net gain – all other elements becoming equal Persons who don’t live lengthy after retirement age get a substantially decrease net advantage Finally, men and women who derive a higher percentage of revenue from non-wage sources get large Sociable Secureness net positive factors due to the fact they appear to be poor, when they are not The progressive gain formula for Societal Home security is blind to the earnings a employee could very well have from non-wage sources, such as spousal assistance, dividends and interest, or rental revenue.It also meets the criteria in that wealth is redistributed from doing work Americans to illegal immigrants and some non-functioning Americans who by no means compensated into the method It is purely a collectivist scheme, as the dollars earned by an particular person are not owned by that particular person – despite the nice little profit analysis mailings the Interpersonal Safety measures Administration sends out.The saddest component of this is that quite a few Americans believe that the monies they have compensated into Sociable Home security is safely tucked away into a lck box The trouble with all this fulmination about lck bins is that it just isn’t genuine There is no lck box There by no means has been Lck containers are meaningful only so lengthy as a person has a clear house suitable to the key Lck containers need non-public house, and politics is all about converting personal house to political uses If you invest your revenue in a bank or mutual fund, that dollars is yours, and you are rightfully entitled to the resulting earnings according to the contract between you and your monetary institution Your hard earned cash is in a lck box, in that the fiscal institution is bound by its contract with you (http://www.virginiainstitute.org/viewpoint/_vvwagner.html)Even with the existing massive construct-up of surpluses, it is widely acknowledged that by 2030 the trust fund will be gone and payments will be hugely in excess of revenues In other words the political promises that had been created to beneficiaries are inconsistent with the commitments that ended up developed to taxpayers.Below the latest process, once a employee pays his or her Sociable Secureness taxes into the process, the employee no longer owns that dollars Most staff assume that considering the fact that they pay Interpersonal Safeness taxes into the model their entire operating lives, they have some sort of legal guarantee to the system’s many benefits Sadly, precisely the opposite is correct In two landmark instances, Flemming v Nestor and Helvering v Davis, the U.S Supreme Court ruled that employees have no ideal to obtain Societal Basic safety many advantages Congress and the president may likely change, decrease, or even eliminate features at any time Retirees should ultimately depend on the very good will of 535 politicians to figure out how substantially dollars they will acquire in retirement The fundamental issue is that the way Interpersonal Protection is presently set up, employees really don’t personal their Sociable Basic safety funds Given that staff don’t individual their finances, Congress treats that your money like its very own: totally free to shell out on whatever the members decide on And devote it they do, on every thing from the war in Iraq to the International Fertilizer Development Center In return, the Interpersonal Home security Trust Fund is given a bond, essentially an IOU, which will eventually have to be repaid out of future taxes (http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3970)There is no question in my mind that it should always be ended I prefer a graduated approach Privatization, along the lines of of Galveston County, Texas where many thousand staff have been allowed to opt out of the Sociable Secureness plan in the early 1980s, and have their bucks placed in a non-public retirement prepare instead Although workers who earned $50,000 each yr would have collected $1,302 every month in Sociable Stability many advantages, the non-public strategy paid out them $6,843 each month Even while workers who earned $twenty,000 each yr would have collected $775 every month in Interpersonal Safety measures many benefits, the personal prepare compensated them $2,740 every month, at interest rates prevailing in 1996 George W.’s try at privatization was lambasted, and for the quite reason that Sociable Safeness have got to go Interpersonal Secureness embodies the sacrifice of specific liberty for the sake of stability that is the substantial octane fuel of major federal government statism and collectivist ideals .
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Everybody who is a fan of American Idol need to know who David Archuleta is He came in second place on the 7th season of the show with 44 Hartford, Conn (XL)
June 22: Wilkes-Barre, Pa (Wachovia Market at Casey Plaza)
June 24: Newark, N.J (Prudential)
June 25: Uniondale, N.Y (Nassau Coliseum)
June 26: Boston, Mass (Agganis)
June 27: Philadelphia, Pa (Mann Music Theater)
June 29: Duluth, Ga (The Area at Gwinnett Centre)
July one: Lafayette, La (Cajundome)
July 2: North Little Rock, Ark (Alltel Enviornment)
July three: Houston, Texas (Reliant Area)
July five: Grand Prairie, Texas (Nokia Theater)
July 6: Tulsa, Okla (BOK Middle)
July 9: Glendale, Ariz (Jobing.com Market)
July ten: Fresno, Calif (Save Mart Middle at Fresno State)
July 11: San Jose, Calif (SJ Events Core)
July 13: Portland, Oregon (Rose Garden)
July 14: Seattle, Wash (WaMu Theater)
July 16: Sacramento, Calif (ARCO)
July 17: Los Angeles (NOKIA Theatre at LA Dwell)
July 18: Las Vegas (Orleans Industry)
July 20: Denver (Wells Fargo Theater)
July 22: Kansas City, Missouri (Sprint Centre)
July 24: Chicago (Allstate Enviornment)
July 25: Cincinnati, Ohio (US Bank Industry)
July 27: Cleveland (Wolstein Core)
July 28: Harrington, Del (Delaware State Honest
July 29: Greensboro, N.C (Greensboro Coliseum)
July 31: Tampa (St Pete Times Forum)
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Aug four: Greenville, S.C (Bi-Lo Centre)
Aug five: Louisville, K.Y (Broadbent Enviornment)
Aug 6: Columbus, Ohio (Ohio State Honest)
Aug 8: Minneapolis, Minn (Target Middle)
Aug 9: West Allis, Wisc (Wisconsin State Honest)
Aug ten: Indianapolis (Indiana State Honest)
Aug 12: Nashville (Sommet Cen)
Aug 13: St Louis (Chaifetz Area)
Aug 14: Moline, Ill (iWireless Centre)
Aug 15: Omaha, Neb (Qwest Cen Omaha)
Aug 17: Grand Rapids, Mich (Van Andel Industry)
Aug 18: Clarkston, Mich (DTE Energy Music Theater)
Aug 20: Fairfax, Va (Patriot Cen)
Aug 21: Hershey, Pa (TBA)
Aug 22: Atlantic City, N.J (Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort)
Aug 23: Providence, R.I (Dunkin Donuts Core)
Aug 24: Manchester, N.H (Verizon Wireless)
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