veronica-s.-jacobi

In my Honors Civics and Economics class, we recently had a debate on issues like welfare, outsourcing jobs and healthcare. My class is white with the exception of 1 boy. None of them have disabilities of any kind and all of them are healthy teenagers. The majority of the class are moderates, leaning to the right a couple of conservatives and the minority being liberals, like me.
So I suppose you already know where most of the class stands on the issues we were debating.
Healthcare was predictable. They (the students against) said it doesn’t work. I (a German-American citizen) said I had experienced American system and the German universal system and said their allegations of waiting in line was not true, because even my dad, who is not a German citizen thinks the Germans have a better system. This article agrees with me.
But my conservative peers argue that Germany is the exception and failed universal healthcare is more common.
As frustrating as that was for me (and probably a lot of people on this site who have pre-existing conditions and/or have to pay more for being a woman) this next tidbit was even MORE frustrating.
Welfare should be monitored and only people who actively look for jobs can get welfare. Which, at least most of them can’t deny America needs welfare (well actually they couldn’t deny it AFTER they were told numerous times by the supervising adults that not ...