bucs90
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I'm sorry. What are the left wing ideals? Frankly, the left wing is rarely represented on this message board.
Support for equal rights for all people is not 'left wing'; supporting a progressive income tax is not left wing, and supporting social security is not left wing. Support for Medicare is not left wing and support for expanding Medicare with a public option is not left wing either. Supporting reasonable controls on who can own, possess or have in their custody and control a firearm is not left wing, nor is support for labor unions, clean air, clean water and a respect for our environment.
Today is not opposite day.
Everything you described above involves larger government, more expensive government, more CONTROL over the people, and all to be done only with more money taken from private citizens to fund it all. Those are left wing ideals. It's a simple scheme. Left wing is bigger government, more control, right wing is less government, more freedom. We're constantly in a battle to move either way. Neither DEM or GOP is exclusive to either side, as some sway both ways. But thats the general scope of ideology, along with the middle who share both views.
Very little of what I described involves larger government, all of what I posted already exists, even a public option. Those who are not insured get treated when ill or injured, don't they?
I'm not for expanding the size of the Federal Government; I am for making the government more efficient and effective.
Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid do not involve or require a big government?
Gun control requires enforcement, which means big, armed government.
In order to SUSTAIN what is already in place (because it's going broke and taking us with it) is going to require taking more money from the citizens, which will require obviously more IRS agents(which we just hired a lot of), more gov't offices, etc, etc.
And yes, those who are hurt or ill do get treated. Which is why we did not need Obamacare. But the left wing wants single payer. Meaning the government is the sole payer of healthcare costs for all citizens. One stop healthcare shopping. The government. Obviously a massive undertaking by the gov't, similar to European models. Which, btw, are also going bankrupt.
Sad truth is government is rarely efficient OR effective. Partly because government has no competition. Locals can't make a competitive choice of who they want to be governed by. They have their city, state, and federal government. It's not like they can choose Kmart or Wal-Mart. Vote, yes. But politicians don't make government run. Line level government employees do. Clerks. Office employees. The "boots on the ground". And those folks are not elected, and can almost never be fired. Without competition, those folks don't have to be effective or efficient, but simply do the minimum to get by. Which is why government is never efficient. DMV, public schools, etc, etc, all government is run down by waste, inefficiency, fraud, corruption. Which is why we need to give the gov't less, not more, power.