Swede
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Mon May-03-10 05:42 PM
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A friend went to seminar in California last week. |
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It was small business related stuff. Healthcare came up and my friend said how here in Canada health problems can not bankrupt you. It just doesn't happen here. The most vehement oppenent to single payer healthcare was a guy on the brink of losing his business and home because of health problems. My friend was trying to explain how exasperating it was trying to explain our health system to this guy,but the guy just would not listen.
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Mon May-03-10 05:46 PM
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He's already lost everything. He can't see how it would help him and he probably doesn't much care about the rest of us.
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Mon May-03-10 05:47 PM
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2. How Else Can You Make an Ugly American? |
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Cut off his ears, gouge out his eyes, tear out his heart. Make him insensible to reason and rhyme and dead to life.
Then you have a nice little corporate robot, another unit for the Borg.
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Mon May-03-10 05:51 PM
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Especially when ideas either deliberately or just wrongly conflated. There has been such a push to equate capitalism with democracy that people fear anything that sounds like government intervention in business even when the government has been responsible for protecting business many times in American History. People have become irrationally protective of a system that routinely cares nothing for them. Rugged individualism at its worst.
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Mon May-03-10 05:59 PM
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4. The stories of Horatio Algier have ruined a lot of people. |
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Too many people are interested in the climb towards success and all the marbles. This aspect makes them rather insular and too self-centered to care about policies that might be beneficial to the whole of society.
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Sat May 04th 2024, 05:41 PM
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