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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 02 2012 @ 04:15 PM EDT |
I had blue cross from 1991 until 2010 when I was laid off. Unemployment was max
at $2k/month, cobra was $1100/month... I had emergency surgery 04/07/2011...
Total charge? $260k+... No 401k, etc and i'm down to around 25k outstanding
bills which i'm paying $10, $20 and $25 a month... Don't tell me about personal
responsibility. Go tell HP who bought EDS and laid off 23k people. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 13 2012 @ 03:00 PM EDT |
Too many have read the term 'inalienable rights' and never take it back to
Frances Hutcheson's definition of the term in the 1600's. He defined them as
coequal in power to the common good, not exceeding it. This is akin to the
'enlightened' prefix being removed from Adam Smith's 'self interest' as the
basis for laissez faire.
The U.S. Constitution is a social compact, a contract where individual rights
are balanced against the common good, or what it calls the general welfare. We
limit our individual absolute natural rights in exchange for a stable society
that secures those rights. The inherent tension between inalienable rights and
the common good should be perpetual. At least that's what Hobbes, Locke and
Rousseau tell me.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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