"Miss USA says health care is a ‘privilege,’ not a right, sparking debate during pageant"
This, is the crux of the whole problem between the Left and the Right, between Liberals and Conservatives, in my opinion.
I want to be careful to not stereotype people, but, I think a lot of younger people today were shortchanged in their childhood by parents who were duped into thinking that their children should not have life as hard as they did, so, they took the hard work out of their lives and made it easy for the children and also for the parents.
In the early 1960s, Dr. Benjamin Spock came out with his book on childcare. My mom had the book, and was upset because according to what she read, Dr. Spock did not believe spanking children was necessary. Fifty some years later, we see some of the results of that kind of parenting that was taught back then.
We have people today, and it is not just Millennials, who have this 'entitlement' mentality. Could this be why so many young adults who are taught in our colleges, are upset because things didn't work out the way they wanted after the election? Could it be that these young adults never learned how to work through challenging situations that we go through in life?
Some of the evidences of this 'entitlement' mentality are seen in the ideology of the Liberal Left. They want everyone equal, so, it is not fair that some are rich, while others are poor. Their ideas to cure that problem are to heavily tax the rich in order to give to poor people. Instead of helping the poor to become responsible, the tax money is used for handouts. People get used to handouts, then it becomes an expectation. Pretty soon, they think they have a 'right' to get things.
This is a confusing lesson for children to learn. If parents give in to their children's desires continually, and don't discipline when the child needs it, this thinking is the natural result of what happens when parents have this wrong philosophy. The child begins to expect others to give into him when he grows up. When they don't give in to his wants and desires, then the child, now adult, becomes manipulative. He will blame others for his problems. But the real problem is that he never learned how to become a responsible adult. Others took that away from him and now he feels 'entitled' to receive things from others.
So, today, we have a society who is complaining because Miss U.S.A says that healthcare is a privilege, not a right.
Here is the question she was asked:
“Do you think affordable health care for all U.S. citizens is a right or a privilege, and why?”
To which she gave a very wise answer to.
“I’m definitely going to say it’s a privilege,” she said. “As a government employee, I am granted health care. And I see firsthand that for one to have health care, you need to have jobs. So therefore, we need to continue to cultivate this environment that we’re given the opportunities to have health care as well as jobs to all the American citizens worldwide.”
This young woman gets it. She understands how life works. She sees that people have to take responsibility by working jobs. She also sees that we need to cultivate this environment so we can have healthcare and jobs. She made a lot of enemies this day.
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