When considering Health Care and Welfare and their political situation, I find many things about this battle confounding. For one, the belief that people take advantage of the welfare and therefore welfare should not exist is one that is clearly flaws. Saying that because a minority take advantage of welfare and therefore it should not exist is akin to a teacher or coach seeing that one person did something wrong and so giving the entire class a Saturday school.
Next, I find it ironic that the Christian right most vehemently opposes both programs. Is it not a Christian tenet that one ought to be generous? One might argue that by making welfare and healthcare government providing you are forcing someone to be charitable, and this perhaps is not Christian as it forces someone to think a certain way. However, if the far right is okay with forcing Christian beliefs on others with abortion and gay marriage laws, then they should definitely be okay with forcing generosity and charity on the people.
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