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Unfortunately, Gypsum, that's rather like saying 'only your end of the boat is sinking'. No man is an island...and all that.
The poor child who cannot afford to see a doctor will infect *your* child. The angry people who are tired of being kicked around won't spare *you* in a riot just because you are you. If the country goes to the dogs, are you going to be okay because you only wished to take care of your own? Or will the damage come to you, no matter what?
Either take off for the hills and live like a hermit or get with the program. We are literally all in this together.
So, before you doom us all, then PROVE to us that government is the ONLY way to administer your needs. Because I don't want into your boat... It's run by buffoons with delusions of competency.
Actually, it was several hundred thousand or more. Try reading some history.
From 1641 to 1652, over 500,000 Irish were killed by the English and another 300,000 were sold as slaves. Ireland’s population fell from about 1,500,000 to 600,000 in one single decade. Families were ripped apart as the British did not allow Irish dads to take their wives and children with them across the Atlantic. This led to a helpless population of homeless women and children. Britain’s solution was to auction them off as well.
During the 1650s, over 100,000 Irish children between the ages of 10 and 14 were taken from their parents and sold as slaves in the West Indies, Virginia and New England. In this decade, 52,000 Irish (mostly women and children) were sold to Barbados and Virginia. Another 30,000 Irish men and women were also transported and sold to the highest bidder. In 1656, Cromwell ordered that 2000 Irish children be taken to Jamaica and sold as slaves to English settlers.
So, a law being passed is the worst thing that has happened since slavery in the U.S. I beg to differ. There have been soooooooo many horrible things to happen to this country that were waaaaay worse than a law. Eugenics, just to name something.
I wish to take care of me and my family.
I don't want to and cannot afford to, take care of you.
Who in the world do you think you're kidding? The same names that were posting all day and night yesterday, will have posts all day today when I get home and check tonight. One of two things are happening:
a. They are unemployed.
b. They are lazy slobs who are robbing from their employers by whiling away their workdays on internet message boards.
The type of right-wing scumbags who demonize poor people are usually poor themselves.
What made dumb, right-wing heads explode was when someone posted the data showing that self-identified liberals, on average, make more money than self-identified right-wingers. Not all that surprising to anyone with much awareness, as liberals tend to have higher levels of education. In all likelihood, it has been you depending on liberals for various public services you use and whatever forms of assistance you have received over your lifetime.
Anyone who could even possibly agree with that statement is a complete lunatic. It's happening, the conservatives have frothed themselves into a delusional frenzy. They should all be committed for even believing this tripe.
Just that statement is about as stupid as you can get. I remember Reagan saying it was the end of our liberty if Medicare is passed. Well even the fat old neocons would fight you if you tried to end it now. LOL
You're already in the boat, Gypsum, it's the U.S.S. United States.
Nobody's saying gov't is the only way...but for many things, as the shutdown has demonstrated, it's the best way.
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