Posted on 08/30/2006 11:14:31 AM PDT by Jack Wilson
Annual interest on the national debt now exceeds all government welfare programs combined. We'll be in Iraq for years to come. Hard choices need to be made, and given the situation we're in, I think we must bite the bullet and say no more health care for card-carrying Republicans. It just doesn't make sense to invest in longevity for people who don't believe in the future. Let them try faith-based medicine, let them pray for their arteries to be reamed and their hips to be restored, and leave science to the rest of us.
Cutting out health care to one-third of the population--the folks with Bush-Cheney bumper stickers, who still believe the man is doing a heckuva job--will save enough money to pay off the national debt, not a bad legacy for Republicans. As Scrooge said, let them die and reduce the surplus population. In return, we can offer them a reduction in the estate tax.
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I previously posted this, but just the section on education...
Much better to cease all spending on liberal scum.
Can you imagine the reaction if anyone humorously suggested eliminating Democrats? Yet this dude gets a pass, how funny, how sophisticated his humor is, yadda, yadda, yadda.
How would cutting off my health-care save the government any money? I, LIKE MOST REPUBLICANS, PAY FOR MY OWN HEALTHCARE!
Wow! Wasn't the Chicago Trubune a major newspaper at one point in time?
That traitorious bastard.
First, on the Saturday after the 2004 elections, he (jokingly) made the suggestion that evangelical Christians be denied the right to vote. His postulation was that "Since they're supposed to be citizens of a heavenly kingdom, let them deal with that one". His "Prairie Home Companion" audience roared their approval.
Now, he suggests eliminating health care for all Republicans.
I am now ashamed to say I used to LIKE "PHC", and was a fan for over 20 years. I even attended a live broadcast.
I want nothing more to do with this vile wretch of a human being.
I hope the sucker drowns in Lake Woebegon.
Mr. Keilor...I fart in your general direction
Hard to figure this - he seems to be saying that all Republicans need government to have health care.
Or maybe that they should take away all private insurance health-care payments and give them to the government for debt reduction.
Either way sounds like a liberal's wet dream.
He's about as qualified to give economic advice to the US as I am! Just because he's famous, makes him an economic expert?
A waste of great talent, but you know, as Garrison once said himself, "happy people do not need to make art." Says it all, really.
Um, me and my employer pay for my health care. Does he propose me not being allowed to have private health care? What a moron!
Yes, son, that's right. At one time people had to rely on these "newspapers" for their information and entertainment, and through them, the oh-so-wise Gatekeeping Masters told people what to think and how they should vote. Of course, that was before the Great Information Revolution. Today, only a few of these "newspapers" still exist, and they are in "Bias Preserves" in South America, because even in the 22nd Century, people do still need to wrap fish entrails when they throw them out.
I think we should start with means testing to receive Social Security benefits. Nobody above the poverty line should qualify for benefits. Then, after the system is solvent for at least 100 years in the future, disenfranchisement from the Social Security system begins. The elimination of all non-wage earners from the system. No money in, and no money out.
Social Security returns to being a retirement system *solely* for wage-earners with no other retirement. And, to be charitable, for the destitute who are aged and no longer able to work.
Under this system, Social Security could provide a *good* retirement to wage-earners, not just less-than-subsistance, so that they could continue with the same living standards they had when employed.
All FICA taxes would still be collected by every employer, but instead held in retirement trusts not associated with the employer, with voluntary mutual fund investments of a percentage of the funds. These retirements funds and their capital gains would ideally not be taxable until after withdrawl, and would be 100% insured.
First, we should institute late-term (like, now) abortions for fetuses which have turned out to be liberals, and therefore mentally-defective.
What crap! The average teacher in the US makes $47,000. Here in Michigan the average teacher's salary is $55,000. Keep in mind that is for 9 months work. I'd call that a "decent wage".
These wealthy liberals have no idea what a "decent wage" is, since they are so far removed from it.
"It just doesn't make sense to invest in longevity for people who don't believe in the future."
Should we also cut off people who don't believe in the future of Iraq, Mr. Keilor? And for someone who wants America to be a weaker nation, you have some nards claiming that it is Republicans that don't believe in the future.
Ohhh... I get it... you mean the SAME FUTURE you believe in. I see now...
Gary tells wonderful stories.
This is not one of them.
Mr. Gary should not quit his day job.
Once again, it's the old "I'm smart because I'm famous" syndrome kicking into gear.
That ought to read WE boomers. And has anyone suggested that our children aren't entitled to "a damn thing?" Other than one Garrison Keillor, that is?
This isn't humor, it's tribal politics of the most vile order and Keillor is one of its stupidest proponents. The NPR crowd love him but fewer and fewer are able to tell you why. This is one very ugly man.
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