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I must be on drugs because you people don't exist!

Bard,



Close...Obamacare wants to keep grandpa drugged so the govn doesn't have to pay for his new hip, all that unnecessary surgery, or chemo. That's for the death panels to decide.


Edited, Sep 14th 2009 6:04pm by publiusvarus

AND TALK LIKE THIS ALL THE TIME?

I know. I bet he has reams of paper covered with "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."

Naw, he's a good ol' boy like 90% of small business owners here in the south.

They like to pretend they pulled themselves up by their bootstraps, or their ancestors did, conveniently ignoring the white male privilege that allowed them to do so without much effort.

And thus, they are unable to comprehend the idea that someone else might actually have trouble doing that sort of thing. That a bank might turn down a business loan because of the color of someone's skin, or that a particular music program might only accept males because "girls don't play trumpet" (that exact situation happened to me as recently as 1999.)

What do they lack? Empathy. And they're proud of it! They're proud of the inability to reflect the feelings and emotions of those around them. They're proud of the fact that they are mentally incapable of putting themselves into another person's shoes.

Those of us outside the good ol' boy network can only grit our teeth and put up with it, until such a time as we can leave the south and all its Neanderthal ways.

How is that different from a lot of private insurance out there now?

Feeling sorry for them is not the useful point.

Understanding what they have been through and are going through, understanding their life situation in all its facets, all the social things that happened and didn't happen to them, the environment that they had to work with, that's the purposeful and productive point.

Because there are structural things that get in the way of some people looking after themselves. There are structural things that actively destroy some people. Understanding those structures and changing them is important.

It's great you give away vegetables. That's a short-term stopgap, and a very beneficial one, because it raises nutrition, which helps a little for to people make good decisions on.

But you need to know why people fail. Because it's NOT just because they make poor decisions and that they don't put any effort in. Only when you have a well targeted safety-net that removes outside reasons for people's failure to be self-supporting, that's when you can look at the people who've "failed" and shrug and leave them to the mercy others...private charity.

I give away spaghetti squash. Mainly because we have a fuckload of spaghetti squash.

A real capitalist would boil them, coat them in melted butter and then whip them at cars.

And then open a body shop.

Yep, you've had it pretty tough