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RE: Money For Nothing - A Free Lunch Is The Most Expensive Lunch

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I believe all governments should provide food and shelter for all its citizens.

What's the point of them if they don't?

Here in the US lots and lots of money gets given to corporations, it would be nice if they were given directly to the people instead.

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If that's what you believe by all means, then you should have the right to chose a government that does that, same as I would like to right to live in a place where they provide very little if anything.

The point for me is for them to do the bidding of the people on a local level, I'm all for small local government supported by selling bonds having for-profit services NOT having the ability to print money at will.

Well, they are going to give the people the money now, the thing is if you give people money all it does is bid up prices as you have more money chasing fewer goods making prices even higher, hurting the poor and the ones owning the supermarkets or whatever they buy become disproportionately wealthy.

Giving people money isn't the same as teaching people how to use money, be responsible and save, well at least that's how I see it

The government should do the bidding of the people, I agree with that as well.

The government should teach people how to spend, budget, and save, I agree with that as well.

I don't know how it goes down in the US, but here its better to keep the government out of EVERYTHING. Asking the government to do something here, is asking a 6 year old to do dental surgery on you and still paying to proper price for it

I believe all governments should provide food and shelter for all its citizens.

To deliver that, they must steal off productive people (tax). They have no money of their own, only stolen money.
There is no such thing as free.

Or they can share the natural resources.

A redistribution of the wealth that already exists, no more corporate bail outs, no more handouts to other country's, no more spending money on keeping soldiers abroad, etc.

If all that money was redistributed to the people, then we would be a lot closer to Universal Healthcare, food and shelter for all.

I am of course not asking that everybody has steaks delivered to their door, but a ration of fruits, vegetables, and grains (especially if grown on government ran organic farms) is not too much to ask for.

A redistribution of the wealth that already exists, no more corporate bail outs, no more handouts to other country's, no more spending money on keeping soldiers abroad, etc.

cRapitalism (communsim with a different name).
It is Evil.

Universal healthcare/ food is communism.
Nothing is for free, and the price you pay for 'free stuff', it totalitarian governments.

There is not one instance in the natural world where an organism gets things for free, off an authority (one that is not related/part of a small social group).

We are natural organism's, and obey natural laws- so why are we entitled to anything free from an authority that has no intimate relationship with us?

It anti-nature.
Top down authority, and being looked after, is slavery.

Free markets, work, trade, exchange, and freedom, are the natural rhythms we need to adhere to.

They are the natural systems of life itself among the more higher developed species.

It is natural to have land to steward over.

It is natural to be able to survive without money.

It is natural to have land to steward over.

Property rights, you mean?
Yes, very natural.
Ask any lion pride withit's territory, or even an ants nest if oyu invade it, (or even a dog with a bone).
Animals have property rights.

It is natural to be able to survive without money.

Money is a token to represent a value, nothing more.(that's if we use sound money again - not this current farce that we find ourselves in)