Posted on 08/12/2004 12:05:29 AM PDT by Lepidopteran
Get some rest. Spelling/punctuation/basic syntax slightly impaired after 24 hr. non-stop freepfest.
It knows what a Troll is, but doesn't know whar a ZOT is.
Interesting.
(Blowing nose on handkerchief.)
I'm Zot sneething. I'm da pictoor ob healt!
Did the Post Office discover the internet?
The libs want a govenrment monopoly for heath care...and it doesn't get any worst than that. The "free" care will increase demand and naturally long lines result. The government will then determine that the cost is way too high. Then the pharmaceuticals and doctors will be told how much money they can keep.
"Irregardless is a word that many mistakenly believe to be correct usage in formal style, when in fact it is used chiefly in nonstandard speech or casual writing."
Well..irregardless of the meaning of irregardless...it's not a thesis...just a flippant response in a publik forum...
:-)
The only problem with forcing them to read Williams is that sooo many are incapable of learning from the experience.
The "tipper" was the thought that Kerry had any viable thoughts on healthcare. That put me over the edge.
Well, Mme. Butterfly is still around (back into her cocoon?)--a NOT ZOT. I don't vote for it becoming our new lost thread. It is not worthy of Suggestion #Trey.
I'm not interested in #Oncet. She has said she wants to go elsewhere in search of answers, and was pointed at DiminutiveUnderparts. Good luck on her.
Looks like I vote for the Deuce. Let 'er go, big guy. This one wasn't meant to be....
YES please!... well I am not greedy forget about the house but how about a boat? Oh... and a crate of beer to drink on the beach while I am cruising the Bahamas in my boat....
Ah.... this is the life....
...sits back waiting for goodies to arrive...
;)
You're doing fine, Butterfly.
Ignore the Bushist mobs -- for all their numbers and vehemence, they have no power to "fry" your account without the say-so of the Owner and the Moderators of this Forum... and, obviously, the Powers That Be have not seen fit to "fry" your account yet, now, have they?
Instead, focus upon obtaining the answers to the questions which you have advanced. You state the following:
Let me modify your observation somewhat, and address instead the matter of Public Education -- surely we can both agree that Education, like Health Care, is a desirable Good that we should like to see advanced and extended for the benefit of the Public, neh?
Let us, then, address the matter of Public Education first from a Utilitarian perspective, and then from a Principled perspective.
HOWEVER, for my youngest brother, my widowed mother was able to secure education in a Private Reformed-Christian Academy, incorporating not only the basic curricula of the Government Edumbifikashun Warehouses as pertains to Math, Science, Literature, and History (and at standards superior to those of the Publik Skools), but also a Classical education in Greek, Latin, Logic, Rhetoric, and Theology in addition thereto... all for a Tuition Cost of approximately $3,900 dollars per-child, per-year.
Given, then, that the Private Sector has demostrated a proven ability to deliver better Educational Services at barely half the Cost of the Government Monopoly, would it not make sense (from a UTILITARIAN perspective) to discuss the Total Privatization of the Public Educational System? I mean, unless you want generation after generation of American Children to continue to suffer and decline...
The Fifth Family wants nothing to do with this Scheme, having elected instead to spend their monies on food, housing, clothing, health care, et cetera. They desire no subsidy whatsoever from the other Four Families, but only prefer to educate their Children instead within the Home or within their Church.
IF the Four Families enforce their diktat by Government Coercion, compelling the Fifth Family to contribute to their "Publik Skooling" scheme whether the Fifth Family wants to or not, then have they not committed Theft? Cloak it however you will in the language of "Democracy" and "Majority Rule"... have they not imposed their Will upon the Fifth Family, taken their monies by force, and forced their own Beliefs on those of the Fifth Family?
From this anecdote, I hope you will begin to realize that all questions of Politics must begin from a consideration of First Principles. If you don't start there, you might as well give up on any hope of Justice and Equity in Law, whatsoever.
Best, OP
If you are a "Swing Voter" next time you go to vote - Get rid of the boxers.
Ping to # 272.
If you are a "Swing Voter" next time you go to vote - Get rid of the boxers.
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Conservatism, get it?
The reason health insurance is so high is because of the excessive cost of malpractice insurance resulting from frivolous damage claims won by trial lawyers. Kerry/Edwards is the most pro-trial lawyer ticket in American history.
Edwards himself made millions using junk science to show a supposed link between natural child birth and cerebral palsy.
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