Quote Originally Posted by TheNugget
That's the thing dude, too many people differ on exactly what human rights are. I might be biased when I say this, but I feel that Republicans (the fake ones around now, anyway) do not feel that health-care is a right, and that people are on their own, even when it's the government who's screwing them. Same when it comes to money; if you're poor, you better figure a way out of it, because we wont help you. If you're rich, you probably deserve it, and shouldn't feel obligated (morally or otherwise) to give any of it to people who either NEED it or REALLY deserve it. Of course, I'm of a mind that if you're rich you should be giving a minimum of half your income away, but I guess that's socialist. Eh, I can live with that.
The problem with your statement is you say the rich should be giving 1/2 of thier income away, but you support the gov't "taking" and not voluntary giving. That sounds exactly like Biden. Supports increased taxes, but his charity amounts to less than 1% of his income. He is only charitable with somebody else's money.


The UN says at the end of the study that the countries with the least disparity are: China, Indonesia, and Etiopia. Now those are places we should aspire to.
That is the problem, when you try to make everybody the same it brings everybody down instead of raising the people at the bottom.
I would imagine that our bottom is still better than these 3 countries middle, since we have the richest poor people in the world.