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You make it seem as if healthcare, social security, medicaid, etc, were law enforcement issues that somehow takes away the autonomy of individuals. In what alternate universe does this happen? I find it interesting that conservatives apparently have such a hard time dealing with issues that promote the welfare of the people, but have no problem at all with the 650 billion dollar welfare program doled out each year for the military, or all that corporate welfare we see being handed out. Or when individual privacy rights are degraded for the sake of minimal (at best) increase in national security. Why is promoting the welfare of the individual is such a dire problem for conservtives? So I hope you can understand why I chuckle when a conservative starts complaining about the "autonomy of the individual".

<blockquote data-quote="orogenicman" data-source="post: 143328" data-attributes="member: 2797"><p>You make it seem as if healthcare, social security, medicaid, etc, were law enforcement issues that somehow takes away the autonomy of individuals.&nbsp; In what alternate universe does this happen?&nbsp; I find it interesting that conservatives apparently have such a hard time dealing with issues that promote the welfare of the people, but have no problem at all with the 650 billion dollar welfare program doled out each year for the military, or all that corporate welfare we see being handed out.&nbsp; Or when individual privacy rights are degraded for the sake of minimal (at best) increase in national security.&nbsp; Why is promoting the welfare of the individual is such a dire problem for conservtives?&nbsp; So I hope you can understand why I chuckle when a conservative starts complaining about the &quot;autonomy of the individual&quot;.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="orogenicman, post: 143328, member: 2797"] You make it seem as if healthcare, social security, medicaid, etc, were law enforcement issues that somehow takes away the autonomy of individuals. In what alternate universe does this happen? I find it interesting that conservatives apparently have such a hard time dealing with issues that promote the welfare of the people, but have no problem at all with the 650 billion dollar welfare program doled out each year for the military, or all that corporate welfare we see being handed out. Or when individual privacy rights are degraded for the sake of minimal (at best) increase in national security. Why is promoting the welfare of the individual is such a dire problem for conservtives? So I hope you can understand why I chuckle when a conservative starts complaining about the "autonomy of the individual". ;) [/QUOTE]

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