| Leo656 |
03-04-2012 05:04 AM |
To make an extreme counter-point, though, if a person becomes - solely through their own actions, mind you - an alcoholic, or a drug addict, should taxpayers have to pay for their rehab? *I* had nothing to do with it, and quite frankly don't care if they "get help" or not, and if you asked me up front to pay for it I'd say no, I refuse to physically pay for the consequences of someone else's actions, actions I was not involved in and heavily disapprove of.
It's different, but it's what he meant when he asked "What about personal responsibilty?" Shouldn't people have to, at least some of the time, pay for their own "mistakes"? Even if casual sex can't be considered "a mistake", because I *definitely* don't think it is, some people don't like it, and would have a huge problem if you said to them "I want you to pay for my birth control". So they simply don't want to magically have their taxes pay for it, either. Makes sense if you ask me.
Plus there's the whole line between preventative and curative medicine. When you're asking other people to pay for things you *technically* don't need, or wouldn't need if you had done something differently, things get tricky. Taxpayer-funded cancer treatments, sure, makes sense. Taxpayer-funded liposuction? Absolutely not.
These are all different from the birth control issue BUT they're related in a broad sense. Personally, a lot of people I know and may or may not have known "biblically" have benefited from planned parenthood clinics, etc. So I'm not sure about how I totally feel, but at the same time I totally understand why people would be against it. It does encourage promiscuous behavior... anyone who says otherwise is full of it, the entire point is so you can f*ck around and not have babies, maybe some people do the "one guy/one girl" thing still but I find it's not very realistic for anyone over the age of 15 to believe in monagamy, but that's a whoooole other topic.
I personally don't get why anyone actually pays attention to Rush, Colbert, Stewart, or anybody of their ilk to begin with, because a lot of these things that happen are just to distract everyone from the fact that it's an election year and the economy still sucks. I do agree with Rush 100% though, that all this talk about "social issues" right now is stupid, because none of it matters unless people are going back to work. I hate how people get so worked up over stuff like this; they're working you, it's an act. Whenever there's an election, people talk about emotional issues like contraception and gay marriage, but once you're IN office all that matters is economics. So why even talk about anything else, except to avoid questions about why things ain't fixed yet?
But on the whole, I prefer Bill O'Reilly. Just sayin'. 8)
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