05-06-2017, 10:45 AM
(05-04-2017, 05:16 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Same old same old.
Pre-existing health conditions are the result of personal choices (not living "good"), just like being unemployed or underemployed is the result of personal choices (lazy).
It is true that some pre-existing conditions are the results of poor personal choices and some unemployment is the result of being lazy. Even though many pre-existing conditions are not based on personal choice and lots of unemployment is due to the fact that there are not enough jobs conservatives try to demonize the unemployed and people with pre-existing conditions to get the public to back programs that deny assistance to ALL of the unemployed and pre-existing conditions even the ones who are in those positions through no fault of their own.
It is a political version of victim blaming. Divert the attention from the real issues by blaming children for getting cancer and blaming employees who lost their jobs because their employer sent their jobs overseas,
Wow. Talk about perfect timing. Here is a post from LeonardLeap made in another thread less than a half hour after I posted the above
http://thebengalsboard.com/Thread-ACHA-Passed-the-house Post #8
"People shouldn't be burdened with paying for other people's decisions. It's not their fault that someone else decided to live off a diet of Pepsi and candy and got diabetes. It's not their fault that they were responsible and used contraceptives while other people pump out two or three children they can't afford."
