Socialist Progressives
In reply to the discussion: What led you to socialism? [View all]OswegoAtheist
(609 posts)Hard to come up with a counter-argument to that, right? My family has never been rich (hell, we've only been "Middle Class" a few times), and I needed emergency surgery. Thankfully, I happened to live in Canada at the time; given the same circumstances here in the US (one parent working a low-paying job with less than a year of service), I'd either be dead, or my parents would still be paying off my bills. One of the cornerstones of the Upstate New York healthcare system is (I shit you not) chicken BBQs. Think about that for a second: I live on the shore of the same lake I did when I was five, and on one side, I get taxpayers who GLADLY give up a portion of their income so everyone can access affordable care; on the other, I get to hope that it doesn't rain on my BBQ day, and that people are hungry. If I were a heartless Capitalist, I'd invest in starting a factory here that mass-produced BBQ chickens, pre-printed fliers, charcoal, etc., and sell them as a package deal. Hell, I'd probably be called a humanitarian for it.
Oswego "Once I realized that disparity, the rest simply fell into place." Atheist