These are all fabrications that have been put out there in order to discourage people from meeting what I consider to be a core ethical and moral obligation: that is, that we look out for one another; that is, I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper. And in the wealthiest nation in the world right now we are neglecting to live up to that call.
This statement is misleading at best, and a straw man fallacy at worst. By suggesting that the goal of Americans opposing socialized medicine is to "discourage" people from looking out for one another, the President is assigning his opponents a position that is easy to refute, while ignoring the meat of their arguments. Americans on both sides of this issue are interested in looking out for their fellow countrymen. The main point of contention is whether or not the federal government ought to be the arbiter of what is or what is not an "ethical and moral obligation", and have the ability to compel Americans to meet those obligations, whether or not they agree with them, by forcibly taking money in the form of increased income taxes. In the type of society our Founding Fathers envisioned, each American would have the ability to determine their own moral obligations, and be allowed to meet those obligations as he or she sees fit.
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