RE: Why's it so difficult for some to accept Obama was a good president
January 11, 2017 at 4:24 pm
(This post was last modified: January 11, 2017 at 4:30 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(January 11, 2017 at 1:52 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote: It was once argued that it's not the governments job to police what we do with our private modes of transit. They passed a law and they do now.
That argument doesn't fucking fly.
The government will police you from denying medical care to your children despite your implicit grants of decision making power for yor children's health.
The government will police you from spreading an infectious disease (Thyphoid Mary as case example) to the public.
Your argument is fatally flawed given the above invasive (at least from the perspective of the former status quo) counterexamples and is more akin to a political platitude.
She's saying what she thinks ought to be the case, not arguing that it is actually the case
It's not terribly hard to understand that much.
Simply because a government possesses a power does not mean that that government ought to possess that power.
For the record, I think if government mandates carrying health insurance, it ought (there's that word again!) to cut out the middlemen and work it through taxation and gov't provision.
@Whateverist --
It's not an effort on my part to be fair, nor an effort to draw an equivalency ... It's pointing out a basic fact in American politics. Praising the opposing party for its initiatives is a vanishingly rare phenomenon, so far as I can tell.
