One of my co-workers likes to post quotes. Here's a few I picked up today:
"With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have realize what that implies. It’s not an abstraction. I’m a physician. That means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me. It means you believe in slavery." - Rand Paul (R-KY)
My question to him - if I have a right to carry a gun, does that imply that I have a right to threaten you with it? I think most law enforcement personnel would agree with my answer of "uhh... NO, you moron".
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."
-Alexis de Tocqueville
Uh oh...I think we're there. Not sure even de Tocqueville could have predicted the degree to which we let corporations bribe Congress, though.
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2 weeks ago
Rand Paul's comment is an "interesting" statement. He is saying that, if someone has CHOSEN to become a physician, that person would be FORCED by the government into practicing medicine if health care were to be considered a right. what else do we think people have a right to: speech, religion, voting, bearing arms, trial by jury... You get the picture. Does the government ENSLAVE lawyers to provide legal counsel? No. Does the government ENSLAVE the reporters and the media to provide news and entertainment? No. Does the government ENSLAVE the electorate, forcing them to vote? No.
ReplyDeleteYou get the idea.
Arguments about whether or not health care is a right aside, the assertion that considering it so would result in the forced enslavement of doctors by the government is absolutely ludicrous and obviously meant to rile up Paul's fearful and self loathing political base.