I just read this thread from the start...

I must say im shocked...

Hachifusa...

You condem the public health system as taking money out of the pockets of the hard working. Exactly how rich are your parents? Consider what if you had a family, worked 50 hour weeks in an unskilled job because you were poor at school and your parents were too poor to afford tight ass education. You spend every cent feeding and clothing your children. then one of your kids gets pneumonia. You have the rent to pay or you'll all be on the street. Antibiotics that could help your child survive the possibly fatal and certainly common diagnosis are expensive.. What do you do without a public health system. Does the child have no right to these possibly lifesaving antibiotics so that Hachifusa's father can spend an extra $5000 a year on golf clubs???

I live in Australia and we have this wonderful concept called Medicare and bulk billing. If i get sick it costs me $2 to go see the doctor and possibly another $2 for some medicine. But do i see it as a barbaric system restricting the rights of individuals by ripping money from their pockets??? I think its more barbaric to cast the not so fortunate members of society such as yourself into the cold because of no fault of their own.

Did you know that America spends $399 Billion annualy on the miltary? I wonder how much that costs your dad? This is more than spent on Justice, Health, Education, Jobs and employment, housing assistance, international affairs, natural resources and the environment, science and space and economic development COMBINED

Australia and Canada may have higher taxes than America, but at least I can sleep at night.