As americans, we are entitled to certain rights....?

	As americans, we are entitled to certain rights....? If we are all entitled to equality, then why are there people homeless and starving?...we are entitled to a fair and speedy trial, but some with lots of money get away with murder...we think castro is a f****d up individual, yet all of his people have health insurance....greatest country on earth? give me some examples why.... Asked By: stephaniech24 - 8/29/2006

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We are far from perfect and getting worse by the day. Unlike Cuba you don't have to worry about the Gov dragging you off, putting you against a wall and shooting you. The US Gov only drags a few innocent people off and then years later kill you in a more humane mannor. Don't get me wrong I support the death penalty but I have real problems with who we execute and the method we use to get there. As for health. You get better care in the US without health insurance than you do in Cuba WITH health insurance. If you have health insurance your standard of care is imeasurably better than what the wealthiest Cubans have. Yes Cubans have wealth despite "comunism" the method of wealth creation is replaced and it is far more difficult to obtain wealth. Wealthy Cubans are like poor Americans. Still it beats being the average Cuban in Cuba. Millions of people pour into the US because even the worst of the US is better than being in the country they game from. In Hati, Africa and parts of Asia life is hard and short. AIDs, military actions, repressive Govs, lack of safe working places, lack of food, lack of health care, lack of education creates a really bad standard of living. South and Central American's flock to the US for work, for health care, to escape danger in thier homelands. People from Ireland, Canada, Eastern Europe come to the US for opportunity. People from China, Vietnam, the middle east come to the US for freedom and to escape sometimes certain execution for thier religious or political beliefs. So even as bad as we have messed things up we still have something pretty good going. I do agree, there is no excuse for anybody being homeless. The US Gov has never attempted to address this. The war on poverty turned into bribes for certain groups. These groups had money thrown at them to vote. The homeless however were ignored. Gov programs have consistantly been misused. People on fixed incomes such as social security and disability do not get enough to live on. Many of the homeless are mentally ill yet there is not help for them. Not unless somebody finds them, helps them through the paperwork process and even then they wind up often just going back out to the streets to avoid the restrictions placed upon them. The working poor is increasingly becoming homeless. These people are unable to make a livable wage for many reasons. Many of these Gov related. The primary one has been support for US corps who outsource the factories they used to work in and who have outsourced the technical jobs thus pushing many white collar workers back into blue collar trades. Literally stealing the jobs from the poorest. Min wage increases have swallowed up many jobs you used to be able to live off of. Proffesionals like paramedics are sometimes unable to make enough to live in the area they serve. Taxes, they are strangling the country. Laws in favor of big biz and against small biz combined with insane taxation have killed many entrenpuers. Each one of these that failed took people's jobs with them. Monopolies drive the cost of goods up, lower quality and remove jobs from the economy. Every one of us pay dearly for Microsoft's monopoly. An example is the Office products. They normally have no backwards compatabilty and this is intentional. This forces companies and Gov agencies to upgrade to a newer office version despite having no need to do so for functionality. The net effect is billions of dollars that could have gone for what the Gov agency was set up to do is wasted buying software nobody needed in the first place. When you go to the grocery store you pay for it because the store uses Microsoft products and they pass those uneeded costs on to you. If you buy a diaper it comes from one of two companies. They will sell you diapers for whatver they want to charge since they unfairly ran all of the independents out of business. Buy a bag of potatoe chips, who are you going to buy it from? Almost all stores stock chips made by one company. Even most generics are made by Lays. Remember those bags of air they sold last time they had a monopoly on chips? We have a two headed monster running the country today. It's owned by big biz and large political organizations. The needs and wants of these groups are put before the best interest of the nation and it is killing us. What is happening is we are making the same mistakes those other countries made. We are losing our manufacturing base, our technical edge. We are taxing our industries into non-existance and obliterating the middle class. Child support is a life destroying machine roaming around sucking up unfortunates and spitting out fiancial ruin for parent and supporter alike. CPS stands by while children are killed but spank a kid in public and they'll tear your child away, put them with a family of abusers and make you spend your lifes savings getting that kid back. So many of our other Gov agencies pervert the very purpose they were created for to satisfy political agendas and to the detriment of the nation. Bad enough those agencies do this, worse they make us pay for it. So yes we are for now better off. Laws like the Patriot act, laws banning even medicinal use of Marajuana, the prison industry where we intentionally lock up huge numbers of our own people for bogus reasons, the CDA, gun control, restrictions on free speech, no knock warrents, and a thousand other things are combining with self destructive economics to kill the US. We have allowed politicians to devide us to the point we are ready to kill one another over a persons stance on a single issue. Often a made up issue. We have Americans actually hoping for US casualties in Iraq so they can use them politically against another party. The other party would gleefully do the same. That is just sick. I personally am so disgusted with both parties that if you lined them all up against a wall and shot them I wouldn't shed a tear. I would actually rejoice. These are not people, they are monsters who use the nation and it's people for thier own power mongering and wealth generation. They have abandoned us and yet droves of us still support these monsters. Time is short. We need a new way. Socialism is a way of making everybody poor. Democracy worked good when we had it. So did a free market when we had it. I think we should go back to both. Answered By: draciron - 8/29/2006

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And we can't buy cuban products or smoke herb... Answered By: Mary Jane is my lover. - 8/29/2006

Well said! I totally agree. I am looking forward to these answers .... Cuba is a nicer country. Sure it is short of food...but then whose fault is that ???! Before I go further I just want to say : I am Spanish and I don't hate America. What I hate is the current foreign policy of the federal government. I hate the lack of worldy knowledge by a lot of Americans. I hate this un-healthy fascination with their own so-called "freedom". I have more freedom in Spain (indeed in most other Western countries I have been too) than I think ANY American does in America. Free Speech? Doesn't exist there. Un-biased reporting? Nope. Religious tolerance? Forget it. I hate the assumption that "America is best" and eating apple-pie and "Heh let's go to McDonald's Mary-Lou" attitude. I have met a lot of lovely Americans and they have some wonderful scenery. But I couldn't live there for more than a year. I would crack up. Source(s): I Answered By: teacher - 8/29/2006

You're allowed to wear that God awefull sweatshirt thing you have on for one!!! PS: Please don't wear that to Chicks or down the beach..... Answered By: ideratherbefishin - 8/29/2006

The more money you have, the more rights you can buy. Answered By: YoSoyLaNinaMasLinda - 8/29/2006

As the victims of hurricane Katrina Answered By: AndyPandy - 8/29/2006

We have the freedom to make our own choices. In countries like Cuba, sure they have equality but in a bad way. America certainly is not perfect but we strive for a more perfect union. Answered By: songbird1331 - 8/29/2006

If you find it so hard to live in the USA, move to Cuba, or Mexico, and see why the people are running away from those countries Answered By: Logan - 8/29/2006

I don't think so Answered By: cartier95 - 8/29/2006

You have the opportunity to do and be what you want in our society. If you want to be homeless, that is up to you. If you want to work and go to college, that again is up to you. If you want to get drunk, smoke dope and be a burden on society, that is up to you. Life is what you make of it, the opportunities are there. If you made yourself homeless, that is your easy way out, and you want someone else to take responsibility for you. If you want insurance, educate yourself and obtain a better job with those benefits, or are you to lazy and would rather party? Answered By: festus_porkchop - 8/29/2006

Well for one if talk bad about bush you wouldn't be executed in Cuba different story. Here you are able to make your everyday choices not that uncle SAM doesn't add his opinion but your able. In Cuba Castro is god and you do what he decides no questions asked for example all immigrants are shot on sight. I do agree that you have Strong points though as to what is wrong and needs to be addressed in the US.. Answered By: Hound87 - 8/29/2006

We as Americans are entitled to the rights expressed OR implied in the Constitution. Of course, the debate over civil liberties in this country has always predominantly been over the latter rights, because different Supreme Court Justices, Presidents, and Congresses have and do imply different rights from the Constitution. Furthermore, we are entitled to the rights you mention ideologically, but that doesn't always translate into practically. By the way, I would much rather live in this country with no health insurance than in Cuba with no or little freedom, and I know most of the people in Cuba would agree with me, but I don't know for sure, since most of them are too poor to have a computer or Internet connection. Answered By: stillstanding - 8/29/2006

I agree that we are entitled to certain rights. We should be entitled to the right to live decently, to have a job and be able to take care of ourselves and not live on welfare. Health care should be free and of good quality. Good health should not be held at ransom. By law we are suppose to be entitled to equality. Unforunately, in practice there are ways for people to get around that. One of those ways is money. If a rich man has a heart attack, he will usually live from it because the money he has affords him the best health care in the world. If a poor man came down food poisoning(a bad case of it), he would likely die because of the lack of money for good health care or if it is free, he gets inferior care. The reason our society is like this has to do with the system of exploitation. There is capitalism and then there is exploitation. Health care should be available to everyone. That is a basic human right, to be healthy and have a job so you don't live like a bum. Answered By: liker_of_minnesota - 8/29/2006

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