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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do some people think it’s the government’s responsibility to buy them stuff? [/quote]

Because we are in an unprecedented time where we have the technology and resources to provide basic human needs to everyone, and some of us see it as unconscionable not to do so when we are able.  Food, shelter, clothing, education, healthcare, there is no scarcity problem, only a distribution problem. The government can correct that problem therefore the government needs to correct that problem, anything else is a failure of its duty to its citizens.  [/quote]

Hear, hear!

No reason to make people suffer when food, housing, clothes, schooling and healthcare are plentiful. We owe it to those who are without and the best way to make sure people get these necessities is good government.[/quote]

This is what happens when you raise a generation where everyone gets a trophy.

As a liberal Democrat, I find this sentiment embarrassing and the reason why we barely won the last election and will lose the next. [/quote]

What happens? People realize letting your fellow humans starve and freeze for greater profits isn't in our society's best interest?

I find anyone who thinks that basic necessities should be profit generating commodities an embarrassment to humanity.[/quote]

And I find it an embarrassment that some people watch the same mistakes being made over and over in history and want to repeat them.  Do you understand human nature at all?  Do you understand that the reason that food, housing, clothing, schooling and healthcare are plentiful is because people who were pursuing their self interest made innovations that improved production?  Have you not noticed that when societies collectivize, famine ensues?  [/quote]

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