TheRealMafoo said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy The first principle is that all members of the society (citizens) have equal access to power and the second that all members (citizens) enjoy universally recognized freedoms and liberties
In a true democracy, the good of all outweigh the good of the many. |
Yeah universally recognized freedoms and liberties and the way this country has been in many ways it seems that only the wealthy have access to such things. They can afford the best healthcare. The best of everything really. Far more than some guy making $15,000.00 a year trying to pay for company health insurance that won't even come close to paying for simple bloodtests or catscans or colonoscopies if they get sick. Even though such things would only seem to be a drop in the water to someone making a million dollars a year.
If a person making $250,000.00 a year gets $50,000.00 a year taken out for taxes and a person making $15,000.00 a year gets $5,000.00 a year taken out for taxes. The first fellow still has $200,000.00 a year which is quite good while the other person has only $10,000.00 a year left over. Now combine that with the formerly high cost of gasoline to drive a couple of hours to and from work each day (yeah, you once said a person could ride a bicycle to work, but you would ride a bicycle 50 miles down hills in the morning and 50 miles up hills after working all day in the evening to get to the closest town near where you live that has any jobs?), the cost of company health insurance which won't really cover the cost of the minor medical procedures that I've outlined above, and you'll see that such a situation is rather awful for the fellow making only $15,000.00 a year at their job in comparison to what it is for the fellow making the $250,000.00 a year.
