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Anonymous asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 1 decade ago

Conservatives: Which of these "Liberal" ideas enrages you more?

Which "Liberal" policies/ideas enrages you more:

Healthcare coverage for all struggling/poor people, or Social Security for retirees?

Cuts in unnecessary areas of Defense spending, or funding Domestic infrastructure (schools, bridges, roads, police officers, libraries, parks, etc.)

Minimum wage for workers, or FDIC-backed system in which the federal government protects your money in the bank, in the event that the bank would go under. [both established by FDR, who Cons call a "Socialist"]

The part of the Obama Healthcare Bill that prevents Health Insurance companies from denying someone coverage because they got sick, or the part that prevents Health Insurance companies from denying babies coverage simply for being born with a complication (premature birth, etc.)

I know all of this must sound extremely evil to you Conservatives, so which one do you hate the most from each question.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Very good points, but health care reform would also help working Americans who are not covered through their employer. This includes my older son, who is an attorney who graduated from Columbia Law School, passed the NYS bar exam, and is working on a contract for a per-diem rate (granted, a very nice per diem rate) that does not include health insurance. My other son, a college grad, is an assistant director of assessment at a small college that pays him by the hour and won't make him full-time with benefits. These are not lazy lowlifes, the ones the c0ns think health care reform is meant for. They're educated working people who do not have health care benefits and need them. At least I can now put my younger son on my insurance because he's under 26--no thanks to the Republicans.

    Edit: OK, how do I get a thumbs down when I simply stated the facts as they exist in my family? You guys really hate hearing the truth.

  • 7 years ago

    Cuts is defense spending and all other nonsense projects the government funds to help domestic infrastructure. I do not believe in spending more that the amount cut because the debt must be reigned it. The other things are detrimental to the economy and government intrusion where it does not belong has never been good or productive and only generated more red tape. I hate anything the government sticks its dirty hands into and the ACA is such a thing that hurts the middle class because the poor get Medicaid and the retirees get Medicare and we in the middle class get screwed. The rich can afford their own and the poor get it from the government. Obama's attack on the middle class is what I oppose. I think he wants to destroy it completely because many of us cannot afford health insurance at the steep prices of the ACA with benefits we can never use.

  • Dee
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    Obama-care and SS. Feds should really start letting the younger generations get out of SS and I don't expect it to be there when I retire. The health care overhaul was done piss poor and we already had programs for the struggling/poor.

    I don't mind cuts in Defense. Local governments should fund local infrastructure, state should fund state infrastructure, etc....... It should never be Federal government fund everything or whatever reasons.

    I know that every time minimum/inflation wage goes up, it usually screws us all.

    FDIC just continues the inflation wage.

    Your right the Obama plan will cover someone who got sick but that doesn't mean all possible care will be given and that goes for the babies with complications. Like I wrote earlier, the over haul was done piss poor.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Healthcare coverage for all struggling/poor people

    funding Domestic infrastructure (schools, bridges, roads, police officers, libraries, parks, etc.)

    Minimum wage for workers

    the part that prevents Health Insurance companies from denying babies coverage simply for being born with a complication

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    is this an actual question or a troll because I'm interpreting the latter. Any way, I'd say the parts where the federal government involved itself in areas that are meant for the states frustrate me the most.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Health care won't be going to the struggling alone. It is a "spread the wealth program" as admitted by the new head of medicare, Howard Dean, and Max Baucus. Why should I pay for someone else's healthcare when they choose to buy a cell phone, flat screen, or have a newer car rather than buying their own insurance.

    Social Security is a scam. Politicians have taken from it for years. Also, those who have never paid a dime into it are getting SS. FDR said it was a welfare program in disguise as a retirement program

    Never heard anyone complain about FDIC

    Obviously you haven't read the HC bill (I've glanced through it)

    What part do you like about Planned Parenthood?

    -the part where it was founded by a racist and a progressive Margaret Sanger

    -the part where she admits she founded PP to eliminate the future black population

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Liberal govt spent all that Social Securtiy already. The Obamacare really will have death panels to just kill off the poor and struggling people once they get into the govt system, they will be denied care. Thats what Progressives are all about cutting down the population and acting like they are GOD!

    Look how liberal politicians have treated the poor in the last few decades! All liberal ran cities are bankrupted, highest unemployment and most H.School Drop outs!

  • ?
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    I'm really pissed about cuts in unnecessary areas of Defense spending. What's this country coming to? We need MORE spending on unnecessary areas of Defense.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Oh man.. I can smell the smoke

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    I'm not consumed with hate. I find large government offensive to my sense of liberty.

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