Every other developed nation on earth provides basic medical care for all their citizens, not just their legislators. Oh and I might add that all those developed nations are poorer by the sheer fact that we are the richest.
They're also all more homogeneous, they're actual nations unlike the US which is simply an amalgam of communities coexisting together under one government.
Do you want to pay for the health care of Somalians? No? Why then do you suddenly get an urge to pay for the heath care of a Somalian who just settled in Minneapolis? Why does his physical presence in the US change your calculation? It doesn't change for most people. The Somalian in Somalia could die today and no one is the US would lose a moments sleep over his death. The Somalian in Minneapolis could die today and most people would similarly not lose a moments sleep. His mere presence in the US doesn't produce a bond to the rest of us.
Now in Finland, where 93% of the population is Finnish and 5% Swedish, the common bonds between citizens run very deep and so their willingness to share burdens is increased. They're an actual nation, a society, we're not.
You're right, the term you're looking for is nation-state. The countries in Europe, for example, are true nation-states as the race/culture is synonymous with the state or government borders. Our country is not a nation-state as there is no nationality know as American, but we are a state as we have a unified government. But then you throw in the idea of cultural assimilation where immigrants adopt cultural aspects of the greater whole and the
greater whole is improved by that influx of new ideas
Actually, it's not. There's been a lot of research done on the effects of this diversity and it's pretty toxic to civil
society.
A bleak picture of the corrosive effects of ethnic diversity has been revealed in research by Harvard University’s Robert Putnam, one of the world’s most influential political scientists.
His research shows that the more diverse a community is, the less likely its inhabitants are to trust anyone – from their next-door neighbour to the mayor. . .
The core message of the research was that, “in the presence of diversity, we hunker down”, he said. “We act like turtles. The effect of diversity is worse than had been imagined. And it’s not just that we don’t trust people who are not like us. In diverse communities, we don’t trust people who do look like us.” . . .
When the data were adjusted for class, income and other factors, they showed that the more people of different races lived in the same community, the greater the loss of trust. “They don’t trust the local mayor, they don’t trust the local paper, they don’t trust other people and they don’t trust institutions,” said Prof Putnam. “The only thing there’s more of is protest marches and TV watching.”
British Home Office research has pointed in the same direction and Prof Putnam, now working with social scientists at Manchester University, said other European countries would be likely to have similar trends.
My point in saying all this is that it doesn't matter if the immigrant who settled in Minneapolis happens to have emigrated from Somalia, he is still American. And what you said above about not caring, is simply a sign of the distinct apathy for the welfare of others that has infested our culture.
One day he is in Somalia and could drop dead and no one would bat an eyelash. The next day he steps off the airplane in Minneapolis and becomes ill and you actually believe that this new American is going to be embraced by other Americans simply because he has a piece of paper which declares him to be a citizen/legal resident of the US? The empirical evidence doesn't support such an argument. He's nothing to most people.
This isn't apathy, it's simply that there is no cultural or racial bond. The person who doesn't care whether that Somalian-American in Minneapolis drops dead very much cares that his life-long friend in his small town is ill and he'll sacrifice his own well-being to help him out. That's not apathy. The caring and the bond exist for those who are like us, who share our values, who we identify with. No one identifies with that Somalian-American and they resent programs which MAKE THEM CARE by taxing money away from them.
If you desire a high-sharing society, then you need to create a highly homogenous society but liberals have fucked us but good on that front, so it's likely that that high sharing society that liberals dream of will never come to be born because liberals instead chose to bet to the limit on creating a multicultural society to replace the one that we had back in 1965.
Look at what America accomplished during our multidecade long immigration moratorium - we passed the New Deal, the Fair Deal, and the Great Society all with bipartisan support but then the immigration floodgates were opened, society was transformed and a long dry spell on welfare legislation until ObamaCare was passed on a strictly partisan vote and see how much bitter opposition exists to it.
Now we're turning into a nation of greedy, selfish, racist, bigots.
Says the guy on Medicaid who doesn't have to pay for other people's personal consumption of health services.
If you don't want to us to be greedy, selfish, racist bigots, then find a way to restore the nation to this:
Instead of this:
You can thank liberals for choosing multiculturalism over high-sharing. We can have only one, they lied and then imposed this on us. All the high-sharing programs instituted during the immigration moratorium are now all that there will ever be because the foundation needed to implement such programs has had liberal acid poured over it and has dissolved away.
Personally, it makes me sad that our nation is devolving so much.
It makes me mad too. Take it up with the liberals. Maybe we can have a kind of Nuremberg Trials and send liberals to prison or something for what they've done to our country.
Now wonder the PRC is going to overcome us as the next superpower.
See the power of a homogeneous nation? The Chinese remembered the age-old lesson "Divide and Conquer." Our liberal propagandists actually pulled off a miracle and led our nation of useful idiots to forget "Divide and Conquer" and instead cheer on "Diversity is our Strength" The power of propaganda is a marvel to behold.