http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4508038My, my.
One can get rather creative while contemplating upon a throne of porcelain in the basement.
Husb2Sparkly (1000+ posts) Fri Nov-21-08 11:04 AM
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Say it loud and say it to everyone you know. "Socialized Medicine"
That will bail out the Big 3 and the Little 3 and the Inbetween 3. It will make all our businesses more competitive.
But it has other benefits, too. Right now the national mood is awful. People are angry. People are mistrustful. People are just plain scared. If we can, as a nation, tell everyone that one huge worry - their bodily well being - has been lifted, they will feel much better about all the other crap they're facing.
If Barack Obama wants to make a big splash and lead, this is one for his first hundred days. Couch it and sell it any way you want - bailout for business, concern for the little guy, international competitiveness. It doesn't matter. It helps on many levels.
"Socialized Medicine."
Say it.
It is easy to say.
No euphemism.
"Socialized Medicine."
See how easy that is?
Now, I've said this before, but it's been a while, and so I'm saying it again.
The primitives on Skins's island seem to place undue priority on "free medical care for all;" for some of them, it's not only the main thing, but the only thing.
As an individual who pretty much pays as he goes on health care (insurance is for catastrophic things, and nothing catastrophic has happened since January 20, 1993; if one pre-empts, one prevents), franksolich doesn't rate "medical [or health] care" on even his top 10 priorities, or his top 100, or his top 1,000.
There's a lot of problems more serious.
And so why this primitive obsession about "free medical care for all"?
Back circa 40 years ago, the hippies thought they would stay young forever, live forever. As the decades ground on, it slowly dawned upon the ageing hippies' perception that ooops, no, medicine, science, and technology couldn't keep them young forever.
The hippies are now reaching that time when they're standing at the edge of the Abyss, which we all must sooner or later, and now they're feverishly hoping medicine, science, and technology can
at least keep them alive forever.
It's a reasonable and healthy thing to fear Death, but the primitives seem to go overboard with it.
Anyway.
Husb2Sparkly (1000+ posts) Fri Nov-21-08 11:08 AM
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4. As I said, it is helpful on *many* levels
It is as close to a panacea as anything ever will be.
Husb2Sparkly (1000+ posts) Fri Nov-21-08 12:25 PM
Response to Reply #20
21. Some people just need to be considered as "left behinders".
We have:
A Democratic president who has studied history - Lincoln's "Team of Rivals" and FDR's "First Hundred Days"
A Democratic House that knows full well who elected them to
A Democratic Senate with enough repubicans who know full well what the mood is at home and that people want to GET SHIT DONE.
This is truly the best chance to get this passed than has existed ...... maybe ever. I don't care if we don't convince these small thinkers to go along or not. Winning involves just one more vote than losing.
The bonfire's mostly the primitives praying for "free medical care," not a jewel of wisdom or wise-crack worth copying-and-pasting.
