[33girl]

Dionysus, if you don't believe Americans can make their own decisions, perhaps you should try living in a country where people's decisions really are controlled by the government.

Health care for everyone is not a basic human right. Even if we had government subsidized health care, it most likely wouldn't cover types of alternative medicine that some people believe in using. Those people would be forced to pay taxes for something they are NEVER going to use (and don't compare it to childless people paying school tax - schools help the community) and have to pay on top of it for their health care.

As far as someone's senator or rep not "believing" in them - I honestly don't think that when Lott made his statement, black Mississippians with PhD's and businesses threw up their hands and said "Trent's right!! I'm going to go pick some cotton now." How a representative or senator performs ON THE VOTING FLOOR is what should matter. They are bound to vote as their constituents want them to vote. If they stop doing that, vote their sorry asses out of office. If they are doing that and you want to vote their sorry asses out of office because they are racist jerks, that's fine too.