Weighty Argument

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Artisan33 November 8th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
The colonists who signed up for Jamestown, & Plymouth mostly starved to death. Subsistence frontier farmers had their homesteads taken away by land speculators, or their lives taken by natives.

When Kansas was opened up in 1855, predatory traders established businesses at the river crossings, buying worn out horses for a pittance, then selling them to the next pack of travelers for big profits.

George Washington speculated in land, and was America’s biggest whiskey distiller….with equipment he confiscated from the American whiskey rebels.

Freedom is anomalous, no outcome guaranteed. It has its drawbacks. For instance, who lives higher on the hog, the house nigra, serving Massa, or the escaped slave running in the swamp, with the dogs on his trail? Why dat house-boy jes KNOW he got it all over de escapee ! Yessuh ! 3 hots & a cot fo sure !

Why run all the way to Canada? Its COLD in Canada! Mize well stay right heah in ol’ Mississip, and bow a little bit from time to time.

Right Massa Matt?
Artisan33 November 8th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Yeah, another post.
Just skip over it if you want.

My proposition:
Our ethnicity is Freedom.

In France, you can be annoyed by socialist beuracracy, unions that only work 30 hours a week, and the whole place shutting down in August, but in the end, you’re French.

In England, it rains, people are poor as church-mice, and soccer thugs make Sunday dicey, but who can forget Magna Carta ,Shakespeare, Newton, & Milton? In a regimented England, you’re still English.

Similarly for Spain, Italia, Egypt, China & Thailand. The spiced leaven of nationality makes everybody’s bread rise, and bitter as they might seem, all fights are mere family spats.

What is the American commonality? Think on it, before giving a flip answer. If our common bond is not freedom, then we have nothing at all in common, and might as well fight each other as viciously as we dare to grab the whole pie, and Satan take the hindmost. Unfree, America becomes hell.

So never tell me you just want to take 15% of my freedom, or 53.8%, and that it won’t hurt so bad, and I might even like it in a while. You can take a Frenchman’s freedom, and he’s still French. You can take a Limey’s freedom, and he’s still a Brit.

If you take an American’s freedom, he’s nothing at all.
John B. Pierce November 8th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Yup, there it is. “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose…”—Kris Kristofferson. Matt’s hit the story square on. If you think being enslaved to the soulless, money-grubbing insurance cartel is free, keep on worshipping your precious status quo, because we’re already there. Shortly after losing my health insurance (shortly after being laid off) about two years back, I had to fight like the devil to get Pacificare (a division of UnitedHealth Care) to reimburse me for costs out of my pocket for a prostate biopsy that they had approved funding, but failed to alert me about my insurance status until months after the fact. Had I known better, I could have flashed my card, coughed up the $30 co-pay for the urologist and Pacificare would have just shrugged and paid the rest of the bill. Instead, I had to certified mail them copies of my statements and cancel checks in triplicate. That’s the private insurance system. It’s really chock full of both freedom and compassion, now, isn’t it?

The bittersweet end here is that they indeed overcompensated me for my out-of-pocket expenses and I tested negative, but… the urologist advised me I should get tested regularly just to be safe. That was November 2007. I now have NO health care coverage (since I’m still battling to return to work!). Want to guess the last time I visited a principal care physician for that simple blood test???

Sure, I’m free. To potentially die from prostate cancer (or, just as likely as it runs in my family, colon cancer… Oops! Pre-existing condition!). Damn, that’s some sweet freedom, isn’ it? Huh? Huh?
Artisan33 November 9th, 2009 at 6:29 am
There are always untypical, even doomed, losers.

My sympathies go out to all of them.

However, peruse what the nation’s top newspaper had to say about this particular bill. ( Or is the WSJ now just a “teabagger” rag?)

http://tinyurl.com/wurstevr
Artisan33 November 9th, 2009 at 6:35 am
And…..methinks “JB Pierce” doth protest too much.

The tone is just a bit too forlorn, hysterical,& strident.

Could we have a ringer here?

remember:

http://tinyurl.com/wurstevr
farcus November 9th, 2009 at 9:40 am
“Nations top newspaper” maybe.But that link you provided is an OPINION piece.After reading some of the other opinion pieces about same topic its hard to call them objective at all.WSJ is looking out more for the Insurance companies than any of its readers.Well perhaps its looking out for its millionaire readers.
Lalas November 9th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
It’s a shame that hard-working people are uninsured through no fault of their own and then selfish @55holes like Artisan are free of such unfortunate circumstances. If only he’d lose his job and suffer the indignities that he ignores because “He’s got his, so f*(% you!” I’m pretty sure he’d learn a valuable lesson at that point. (Just kidding… he clearly wouldn’t.)

So John…. stop harshing his selfish buzz. Stop losing your job and stop losing your health. You too can be a winner by telling everyone else to just f*(% off and die already.

That being said.. I’m leery as hell of this bill, but not of the concept of covering our collective health. I’m lucky enough to be in the situation I am now… not that it lacks my own efforts to get where I am… and I can see how others may just be unlucky enough to have gotten laid off and screwed.
Artisan33 November 9th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
So would you rather live in an America filled with millionaires?

Or in an America full of broke, outta work peons?
Artisan33 November 9th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
After the Clinton administration instructed Freddie Mac & Fannie May to reach out and include marginal mortgage borrowers “to help the poor get homes”, an unprecedented orgy of cheating, profiteering, and self enrichment began, in which the mortgage scams were organized and intentional. The result of that ill advised “reachout” is evident in today’s recession.

The Health care bill, as written “to help the poor get coverage”, will create a similar orgy of cynical, self interested chiseling, aptly described at:

http://tinyurl.com/naasstii

The salient question thus becomes:

Swamped by Obamacare debt, will an even greater crash follow on the heels of the present crash, somewhere around 2015? Will America become a third world nation via that crisis?

If we are all made equal in regimented poverty,
Will ethnic and racial justice have been adequately served?

Could America become Zimbabwe?

http://tinyurl.com/zzimbb

http://tinyurl.com/mmugabb
Artisan33 November 10th, 2009 at 10:14 am
http://tinyurl.com/NYTTOO

Read, ...Weep.
Lalas November 10th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
The only way to substantially trim the cost of health care is: a) NOT FOR-PROFIT!
b) single payer
This country is too greedy to choose a, and isn’t smart enough to choose b.
Peter in MA November 16th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
Recent AP poll shows public support for PelosiCare drops like a rock when the questions are worded clearly.

When asked if people should be able to get health insurance, most people say yes. This is the source of poll numbers that Matt likes to use in his cartoons showing 72% support for some vaguely defined ‘public option’.

When asked a properly worded question, like if they support requiring people to buy insurance or face fines and/or jail time, support drops.

When asked if they want a mandatory pre-existing condition clause which will make everyone’s cost increase, support again drops.

Looks like no one likes having to actually pay for the free lunch they thought they were supporting, huh, Matt?

Here’s the link to the AP poll – take a look, you might learn something…
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091117/ap_on_go_co/us_ap_poll_health_care

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