Posted on 03/12/2010 12:33:23 PM PST by smokingfrog
From Rachel Maddow's show last night, here's a jaw-dropper from the woman who brought you, "We have to pass the bill, so you can find out what's in it." As I keep saying, the Democratic message mavens are working overtime, apparently to woo the all-important swing vote in Williamsburg to health care:
"Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance."
If Pelosi wants us to imagine it, let's do it with a few caveats, shall we? If liberal Boomers such as Nancy Pelosi insist on creating government incentives for a generation of people to be unemployed artists who nonetheless have their health care paid for by productive members of society, there will be fewer productive members of society.
If they insist on creating a generation unable to care for itself up to and past the ripe old age of 26 by incentivizing "children"—and I use to term loosely— to stay on parent's health insurance policies until they're turning the corner from Clearasil to Botox, there will be fewer educated, able-bodied people who ever learn to take care of themselves.
If they insist on creating a generation incentivized to "move out of the money-making industry" entirely and "into the helping industry," as Michelle Obama put it, with student loans forgiven by government if and only if students stay away from icky, profit-making industries, there will be fewer people making a profit.
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So the rest of us who work can support them. Real good.
I'm thinking, I'm thinking.
Ok people, as of today I'm an artist.
Now instead of sending your money to the IRS middleman, just send it directly to me.
Well this is what I would expect from someone with San Francisco values. I used to go up to Berkly in the 70’s and see the artists hanging out on the streets in front of tax paying businesses selling their crafts and ‘consumables”. Now they got health care too.
We are all going to be serfs anyway.....
So answer me what happens in this scenario: Starving artist acquires health care, and from there files claims based upon lack of inspirational challenges in their life. In other words, they can claim to be disadvantaged at their chosen profession due to writer’s block and get unemployment. SHould they get sick, they get free medical care.
Yes, we’ll be a nation of Pushkins in no time.
“Is that woman really that goofy?”
She’s tired.
After a hard day of doing the health insurance industries’ bidding, she longs for an ideal. Here, the fantasy about helping artists. Makes her feel like she has not “sold out to the man.”
All the Democrats have. The are “the man.”
Obama is just slicker, he can rant about “insurance companies” as if he were not in their pocket. All the Chicago politicians can do that...Rev. Wright warned us!!
She’s stirring vats of Kool Aid.
Serfs Up on the west coast, dude!
Oh this thread is just soooo harshing my mellow; I feel a need to paint something but thanx to all you squares bringing me down, I can’t even pick up a brush.
Think I need to see Dr MaryJane
*8~)
/sarc
In the future only fools will work.
Signed, A Fool
(but not for long)
Maybe you’re on to something! Prescribe medical marijuana for writer’s block!
Think of an economy where....uhhh, what was I saying..?
Rush was slamming this idiots comments on his show today. We get to pay for others to float around the country and paint?....GO TO HELL PELOSI!
These people are insane...
In reality, the only people who will have “day jobs” will be those who work for the government.
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