PRAGER UNIVERISTY: Single-Payer Health Care (America Already Has It)

"Give us five-minutes and we’ll give you a semester." - Dennis Prager

This semester of Prager University is presented by:  Pete Hegseth

"The VA is a true single-payer health care system...[W]hoever can afford not to use the VA, doesn't use the VA.  Hardly a ringing endorsement of the system.  So, could government run Canadian-style health care work in the United States?  Given America's experience with the government-run single-payer VA, why would we even want to try?" - P.H.

"[F]or the past few decades, and especially for veterans of the war in Vietnam, as well as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan...the VA has been an abysmal failure.  Inefficient, bureaucratic and sometimes deadly.  Among veterans, horror-stories about the VA abound...The real solution to the problem is not more government, more money and more bureaucracy.  It's more competition, accountability and transparency." – P.H.

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PRAGER UNIVERSITY: Are Humans More Valuable Than Animals?

"We teach what isn’t taught." - Dennis Prager

This semester of Prager University is presented by:  Dennis Prager

"[A]re you more valuable than a dog, or a cat, or a tree?  That depends on your value system...People increasingly make moral decisions on the basis of how they feel...More and more people believe, as PETA does, that even if it would lead to a cure for cancer or AIDS, it would be wrong to experiment on animals." – D.P.

"The God-based, Judeo-Christian value system renders humans infinitely more valuable than any humanistic value system...Our secular, post-Judeo-Christian society, has rendered human beings less significant than at any time in Western history." – D.P.

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Why is George Washington the Most Important American?

A simple letter he wrote on this date (May 22, 1782) is the answer.

Earlier in the month, Washington received a letter from one of his officers, Colonel Lewis Nicola, requesting that the general use the Revolutionary War army to make himself King of the new country...Which Washington could have likely accomplished with little bloodshed.  Which would have created an entirely different type of system than was established - it definitely wouldn't have led to our current democratic-republic we have.

(I hope and pray you don't mistake that last sentence with our Democratic and Republican Party's...If you don't understand the difference between democratic and Democratic/republican and Republican please ask.)

George Washington's response is why he isn't just the commanding general who won the war, the first President of the United States, a Founding Father, or one of the great men of our history...His response is why he is the most important American.

"With a mixture of great surprise and astonishment I have read with attention the sentiments you have submitted to my perusal. Be assured sir, no occurrence in the course of the war has given me more painful sensations than your information of there being such ideas existing in the army as you have expressed, [which are] big with the greatest mischiefs that can befall my country. If I am not deceived in the knowledge of myself, you could not have found a person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable...Let me conjure you then, if you have any regard for your country - concern for yourself or posterity - or respect for me, to banish these thoughts from your mind."

No other person in such a position in history took the path that Washington took - think Alexander, Napoleon, or any other kind, emperor, caliph, etc., etc...Washington made a choice to create a nation based on 'the people', not on the 'most powerful person.'  A truly incredible and unlikely choice.  One every American should acknowledge and thank him for.

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PRAGER UNIVERSITY: Why Isn't Communism As Hated As Nazism?

"Give us five-minutes and we’ll give you a semester." - Dennis Prager

This semester of Prager University is presented by:  Dennis Prager

"Communism is based on nice sounding theories. Nazism isn't.  It's based on heinous sounding theories...They (intellectuals) dismiss the evils of communists as perversions of 'true communism.'  But they regard Nazi atrocities, correctly, as the logical and inevitable results of  Nazism." - D.P.

"Given the unparalleled amount of human suffering communists have caused, why is communist so much less a term of revulsion than Nazi?...There is, simply put, widespread ignorance of the communist record...And since the left dominates academia, almost no one teaches communism's evil history." – D.P.

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**In case you need more proof of the acceptance of Communism:  California may end ban on communists in government jobs

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