[Oe List ...] all the earth belongs to all the people

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Susan,
 
I love it that your voice is here. 
 
It isn't socialism we've fallen into so rapidly, in my humble opinion. It  
is corporations ruling the government and thus all of us. Talk about 
diminishing  to nothing the human spirit. Is this an evil that the U.S.  is 
destined to act out to its full extent, as the USSR seemed  to with their brand of 
socialism?
 
I enjoy being on Medicare, and still I pay $550/month for health  
insurance. That includes a long-term home health care policy that will be so  
difficult and complicated to make a claim on when/if I need it, I'm  not at all 
sure it will ever pay anything. Fred's didn't. For dental and  vision care, I'm 
on my own. Surely we can do better than this.
 
By the way, in the spirit of speaking from the center of the table, can we  
change "all the earth belongs to all the people" to "all the earth belongs 
to  all the animals, plants, soil and minerals" or something a little more  
comprehensive?
 
In gratitude for this wise community whom I love,
Jann McGuire 
 
 
Jack and Paul, First of all, I appreciate your taking my  question 
seriously and not just dismissing it as uncaring or  unthinking.
 
Next, I think what has always distinguished people of  successful community 
is that they CHOOSE to care for each other.  Not that  there is a governing 
body (the Soviet?) requiring it and thereby diminishing to  nothing the 
human spirit.
 
Finally, I do not believe that anyone or any  government "owes" me medical 
care, or food, or a home, or a car, or any of  the things that everyone 
seems to take for granted. If I am unable to provide  those things for myself, 
then I truly do hope there will be kind and generous  people who will help 
me.  But not, please God, my  government.
 
I have been so dismayed by our pell mell helter skelter  descent into 
socialism within an oh-so-short handful of months that I am no  longer a 
conservative.  I have lost all balance I ever had and have fallen  right over into 
libertarianism (not, of course, the LaRouche style  version).  
 
Susan

 
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