Right Winger Argues Against Food as a Basic Human Right »
Posted By capj71 4 months, 2 weeks ago in Political NewsOn MSNBC this afternoon, Firedoglake’s Jane Hamsher, and Townhall’s Jillian Bandes were engaged in the standard lefty/righty blogger cable news debate on healthcare, when the discussion turned to healthcare as a basic human right like food is Bandes asked, “Should food be a basic human right?” Well yes it should be, and is a basic human right.
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THOMNH624 months, 2 weeks ago
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health care is not a basic human right, it is like many other things a business, once you start giving that out for free it will dissolve into a system run by underpaid and under educated doctors. Who will go into medicine to only be told where and what to practice and how much they should get paid.
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Justice4All4 months, 2 weeks ago
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I'm not sure what should be called a basic human right.
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Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Those are OK.
Access to food shelter and health care sound like basic human rights.
But what about the right to demand that others provide food, shelter and health care to those who are too lazy to work? Does someone have the right to take my home or hard earned money because they feel entitled to it?
I have a right to eat, but do I have the right to demand that someone provide food to me? And if I do have the right to demand that food shelter and health care be provided to me then why do I bother working for a living?-
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hyperbola4 months, 2 weeks ago
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That is all well and fine, but is it really what we are facing?
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I would claim that for far too long in America those simple arguments have been used as a propaganda "theme" to cover up a political/governmental system that increasingly transferred the wealth of americans to the super-rich, that functions more as a "rich-boys-welfare-system" than anything else, is increasingly corrupt and increasingly distorts our country in ways that make it difficult for many to "get ahead by hard work".
The Crooks Get Cash While the Poor Get Screwed
http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/07/06/the-croo...
Tearyan Brown became a father when he was 16. He did what a lot of inner-city kids desperate to make money do. He sold drugs. He was arrested and sent to jail three years later for dealing marijuana and PCP on the streets of Trenton, N.J., mostly to white kids driving in from the suburbs. It was a job which saw him robbed at gunpoint and stabbed in the chest. But it made him about $1,400 a week.
Brown, when he got out after three and a half years, was done with street life. He got a job as a security guard and then as a fork lift operator. He eventually made about $30,000 a year. He shepherded his son through high school, then college and a master’s degree. His boy, now 24, is a high school teacher in Texas. Brown would not leave the streets of Trenton but his son would. It made him proud. It gave him hope.
And then one morning in 2005 when he was visiting his mother’s house the cops showed up. He saw the cruiser and the officers standing on his mother’s porch. He hurried down the block toward the home to see what was wrong. What was wrong was him. On the basis of a police photograph, he had been identified by an 82-year-old woman as the man who had robbed her of $9 at gunpoint a few hours earlier. The only other witness to the crime insisted the elderly victim was confused. The witness told the police Brown was innocent. Brown’s friends said Brown was with them when the robbery took place.
...He refused the plea bargain offer. He sat in jail for the next two years before getting a trial. It was a time of deep despair. Jail had changed since he had last been incarcerated. The facilities were overcrowded, with inmates sleeping in corridors and on the floor. The gangs taunted those who, like Brown, were not affiliated with a gang. Gang members knocked trays of food to the floor. They ****** on mattresses. They stole canteen items and commissary orders. And there was nothing the victims could do about it. ...
He had a trial after two years in jail and was found not guilty. The sheriff’s deputies in the courtroom said as he was walking out that they “had never seen anything like this.” He reaches into his baggy jeans and pulls out his thin brown wallet. He opens it to show me a folded piece of paper. The paper says, “Verdict: Defendant found not guilty on all charges.” It is dated Jan. 31, 2008. -
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Newenglander4 months, 2 weeks ago
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Well then under your guidance we should let people just starve. People who for some reason or other can't fend for themselves should just be left to whither and die. I think most people agree that we don't want to support those that are lazy and refuse to support themselves. I believe that there are many people out there don't fall under the, I'm too lazy to work category. there are children out there who through no fault of there own can't get enough to eat. I think that your statement about them taking your house and giving it to some one who is too lazy to work is absolutely over the top. Your moniker Justice4All is more like me, me, me, only I count. You would appear to be a stingy self centered ignoramus who cares little for your fellow man.
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willottica4 months, 2 weeks ago
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I like that line of reasoning. Access to Health Care, if such is a right, and such access is to be earned by the individual (rather than granted by the state), should be unrestricted. Thus if a citizen wants their health care to consist of using marijuana for pain relief, then it should be their right to grow it and use it for their own health care. Shouldn't it?
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If government starts to tell them that they are NOT allowed to care for their own health in the way they see fit, then government gets into the territory where it has a responsibility to provide an alternative form of care.
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moxxxxxxxxxx4 months, 2 weeks ago
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Healthy people equals a healthy society. The greedy who do not support healthcare as a basic human right will soon be departed from their money when they contract the illnesses spread to them by the uninsured.
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The wealthy right , the pharm corps, the insurance corps- all who have supported their greedy behavior and mentalities by taking advantage of the sick will all leave this earth like everyone else. It will just be sooner than they expected because they failed to invest in a simple prevention plan- healthcare for all. A fool and his money........ -
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slate4 months, 2 weeks ago
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"Honey, I'm hungry after reading about food", have you seen my wallet? "I got paid yesterday, surely there's money left over for us to eat after we paid all the bills and our share of the tax burden".
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Well sure food is a basic right, though food does cost money. Those that work usually have money and feed themselves and those they are responsible for, as well as some they are responsible for that they will never meet, and have no problem helping out, since they don't want their fellow humans to starve.
However, can you imagine how much a tomato would cost if government was to have a Universal Food Program? can you imagine a bureaucratic Czar were to decide what and how much we can eat.
What I think is a basic right, is the ownership of Paul Reid Smith Guitars! I'm all for a Universal Guitar System. Music is the sustenance of life. -
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rbiii4 months, 2 weeks ago
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I won't give capj any click revenue since all he does is post stories that distort whatever some conservative says.
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But from the title and description I have to wonder if this is some kind of ploy to install yet another government bureaucracy to control the food supply... is that what this is about? -
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Daylight4 months, 2 weeks ago
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Food, water, clothe, religion, a place to live, education and health are basic human right which nobody can deny. But people should work hard to earn all these and the exception is that the people who are poor and destitutes must get all thses from their government which collects taxes and also increases taxes.If the tax money they collect spent well, these problems will be tackled but most of the times the governments waste money on unwanted things and for their own benifits.
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tanglang4 months, 2 weeks ago
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What a stupid ass article! The GE anchor believes that there are only 4 million illegals in the country? Jane Hamsher says she's offended by the fact that Jillian interupted her when she sais Jillian didn't know what she was talking about? I too would have interupted her. Except I would have asked her if she wanted a nice tall glass of stfu.
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Now, to the point of this "story". Food and health care are not basic human rights and should not be provided by the government. By saying they are you are saying that the government should be resposible for supplying them. Do you really want the feds telling you how much of what you can eat?
Here are the only basic human rights
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simonsez4 months, 2 weeks ago
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Every animal on the planet has to put some effort into feeding themselves or die. Why should we be any different?
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There are multitudes of programs for people who need help.
The only citizens that I see that are starving in this country are super models. Most everybody else is overweight. -
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Georgia504 months, 2 weeks ago
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No doubt those who attend global conferences on starvation and discuss such issues while feasting on caviar and lobster believe that food is a basic human right.
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http://www.simpletoremember.com/articles/a/starvat...
Unfortunately, in practical terms, these clowns neither pay for the feasting they consume nor yet expect those starving to provide for themselves. It's always about taking from US to feed THEM.
I have a basic human right to be left alone by the world's so-called problem solvers whose only solution is to exploit my labor to soothe their conscience. -
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tadair9194 months, 2 weeks ago
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I have a response to that.
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Liberty is a God-given unalienable right. You have it at birth. That means you inherently own your body; and nobody else can change that. It is yours.
If some unAmerican communist demands that you must work your body to serve up food for somebody else, then they are infringing on your most basic human right.
This idea of liberty is actually classical liberalism. These phony "progressives" on propeller don't know that. They subscribe to the belief that the ends justifies the means. Which is a common life fallacy that most statist authoritarians seem to subscribe to, unfortunately. -
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moxxxxxxxxxx4 months, 2 weeks ago
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The wealthy and the poor are very similiar.
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BOTH operate from a sense of ENTITLEMENT.
The poor have learned how to take use a system to get basic needs met. Manipulation of the system, not paying their fair share of taxes.
The wealthy have learned how to use the system to get more than their basic needs met. Manipulation of the tax code, not paying their fair share of taxes.
The poor become dependent on the system because they are entitled to be taken care of, they can't work or save money in order to live off society's wealth transferred to them. They can't work if they want their benefits, education paid for, jobs set up for them even if they flunk out of school.
The wealthy become dependent on the system because they are entitled to not work and live off the family wealth transferred to them. They don't need to work they have trust funds, education paid for, jobs set up for them even if they flunk out of school.
Families who transfer wealth (that is where the majority of wealth comes from in America) and families who transfer dependent poverty lifestyles maintain their lifestyles by the work of the majority. It isn't just the poor taking from the system and not contributing to the system. It's the wealthy too. Neither contribute, they take an do what they can to keep what they have.
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