re: #510 Diego

Well, it seems to me it’s coming down to personal responsibility and if you end up broke when you’re old then tough. I can see why that would be so, but at the same time I find it difficult to accept.

Doesn’t it go hand-in-hand that if you require people to save, whichever way you support, you should support requiring people to invest in health insurance?

If some did all the right things, worked, saved were prudent, they I don’t have a problem having a safety net for them. I don’t have a problem caring for those who can’t for themselves.

Where I have a problem is someone who doesn’t, spends all their money, buys toys, is frivolous, then when disaster hits comes with their hand out. Then yeah, tough shit. I have a problem when people make choices, to drop out school, to do drugs, have no regard for anything but themselves and the pleasure of the moment coming forward and saying their are “owed” something. No one owes them shit.

That’s the thing about liberty. It’s a two sided coin, on one side is freedom, but on the other is responsibility. Liberty is not risk free, for our freedom we take risks. I prefer the risks of liberty, and yes being destitute to the false security of a government promise.

Those who would give up ESSENTIAL LIBERTY, to purchase a little TEMPORARY SAFETY, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Ben Franklin, the correct citation.