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Originally Posted by Holden_C04
I will vote for parties which emphasize the importance of health care for everyone, not just the rich. I will also vote for parties which help the middle class/lower class in endeavours such as starting/maintaining business, go to school, and other major life events. I don't think society should be left on its own because the upper class will ALWAYS get their way and I think there should be some equilibrium.
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I don't think the government's job is provide thier version of equalibrium. I mean we have seen how well that has worked with dozens of failed programs.
In this country, with the access to grants, scholarships, and education, I believe everybody has a shot to work hard and reap the benefits. Want to be "upper class", go to school, and devote everything in your life to being "upper class". Work two, three jobs, save every penny, invest it, keep learning and advancing, you can get there.
What I don't think it fair is when the government steps in and plays Robin Hood. I know a lot of people that have a lot of money, and I know that almost every one of the them have made HUGE sacrafices. Then the government says, "Thanks for sacraficing your life for the money we are now going to give to the people who haven't made those sacrafices"
For example, if I wanted so desprately to be upper-class, I could be. I would have to sacrafice sleep, time, time with my wife, time with my son, etc.. Work a couple jobs, life frugely, and invest my money wisely. In 20 years I will be "rich". But then for 20 years I won't have much of a life.
What isn't fair is when the government decides that somebody else, who has spent twenty years having fun and enjoying life defaults on a morgage that they signed, and they government decides to use my sacraficed time's money to support them.
Or when the lady who have never worked a day in her life and has six kids gets a cut of my hard earned money. That isn't fair. She wouldn't have made the sacrafices...
Just my two cents...