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WillyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 08:01 PM
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Kentucky Senator Rand Paul: ‘Right To Health Care’ Is Slavery - RawStory
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul: ‘Right to health care’ is slavery
By Eric W. Dolan
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 -- 11:01 pm

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Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul said during a Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing Wednesday that those who believe in a right to health care actually believe in slavery.

"With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have realize what that implies," the senator said. "It’s not an abstraction. I’m a physician. That means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me. It means you believe in slavery," Paul added. "It means that you’re going to enslave not only me, but the janitor at my hospital, the person who cleans my office, the assistants who work in my office, the nurses."


His father, Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul, announced an exploratory committee for his third presidential bid last month. Both congressmen have strong libertarian views and are popular among the tea party movement.

"Basically, once you imply a belief in a right to someone’s services — do you have a right to plumbing? Do you have a right to water? Do you have right to food? — you’re basically saying you believe in slavery."

"I’m a physician in your community and you say you have a right to health care," Paul continued. "You have a right to beat down my door with the police, escort me away and force me to take care of you? That’s ultimately what the right to free health care would be."

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More: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/11/kentucky-senator-rand-paul-right-to-health-care-is-slavery/

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dorksied Donating Member (205 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 08:06 PM
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1. who the hell voted for this clown?
i mean, seriously? Idiot needs his head examined... a great example of blowing things out of proportion for the sake of rhetoric.
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 08:09 PM
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2. Privileged asshole has no right to call himself a slave.
None.
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Incitatus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 08:10 PM
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3. Congressmen have a right to health care. nt
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 08:20 PM
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4. War is peace! Freedom is slavery!
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Swagman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 09:15 PM
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5. Ayn Rand Paul
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 09:46 PM
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6. Why do people vote for someone who says such bizarre things?
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Swagman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 10:02 PM
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7. Do you have a right to water?
let's remove his right to water and see how long he lasts:silly:
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 10:04 PM
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8. I'll pray to Gawd to give him the blueballs.
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BREMPRO Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 10:17 PM
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9.  an immature and offensive argument that you would expect from a teenager
not an experienced supposedly educated man in the US Senate....his ideological indoctrination seems to have blocked his intellectual development.
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