by Heineken » Sun 20 Apr 2008, 23:15:35
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cashmere', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Andy Capp, AKA Vision Master', '"')The most costly Healthcare system is what we have in the USA & we are ranked 37th from the top. Horse-shit my friend."
Just to be Clear.
Andy Capp is the resident Marxist here.
And I do mean MARXIST.
The kind who will, till the day he dies, believe that ANYBODY making 1$ more than the average citizen is getting over on everybody somehow somewhere.
He, starkly, reminds me of my mother-in-law, who immigrated from one of the long-time socialist European countries.
It got to the point where I couldn't even listen to her.
Prices going up on food? Must be Monsanto and Big Agi sticking it to the little guy.
Health insurance a bother? If we only had the European system . . .
Minimum wage stuck at 5.50? It's the CEO's each personally shitting on the little guy to keep him down.
You want to know about Andy Capp? All you need to do is consider his retort to the poster who related the anecdote about his trailer park neighbor blowing money on smokes, losery tickets, beer, gas for his big pick up.
Andy Capp, the Marxist, responded with, "the guy just wants to have a little fun with the <i>little bit</i> of money he gets each week."
You see how insidious that is? This is why Marxism is such a plague.
In one simple comment, Andy Capp both 1) excuses all of the man's bad behaviors that have <b>caused</b> his poverty, and 2) places the blame on the man's employer, who clearly is paying the man very little.
It's insidious.
Worse, it sounds very compelling to those in the swelling ranks of the "poor".
As their ranks grow, they will all be looking for the big excuse as to why they have lost what they had.
I won't matter. Which of them will want to get both barrels from me?
"You eat too much, you waste your money on cigarettes, booze, gambling, your status truck. You're not a very good worker. You give it a 1/2 ass effort while you're there, you're out of shape, you don't give a shit about the company, and you call out way too much."
Who wants to hear that?
Nobody.
What they'll want to hear is little Andy Capp, who will slyly tell them, "it's not your fault. You're not paid enough. And hey, you're just trying to have a little fun when you go out and waste 30 bucks on booze and smokes 3 times a week. It's the company owners and the "rich people" who have done this to you.
And if the ranks of the "poor" swell sufficiently, then Andy Capp will get his way, and he'll get another Marxist revolution.
But then what?
It's the same every time, folks.
They'll tax the rich, which means anybody making a decent living, and they will bleed the system to critical condition for a few decades or more.
But at some point, as it always does, natural selection takes over and the hard workers will again rise, and the Andy Capps of the world will have to let them, because even the donkey shit eaters who will follow a monster like Andy Capp will eventually get tired of having less than nothing. And when that time comes, they will allow the harder working folks to rebuild it, without fatal taxation or restriction.
Rinse and repeat, ad infinitum.
Universal health care?
Health care is great in Canada?
All I have to say about Canada is this:
A guy needed surgery a few years back and the waiting list was so long that he sued the government for his right to pay for and use his own health insurance.
Mind you, he didn't want to deprive anybody of their "universal health care" - he just wanted his own.
But because Canada is run by Andy Capps, the law there used to be that they'd put a gun to your head and march you off to jail if you tried to set up and use your own health care/insurance. They give you all kinds of rationalization as to why they do this, but the real reason is because it's more important to make sure that no one has <i>better</i> health care than it is to ensure that everybody has good health care.
So he sued.
It went to the Supreme Court of Canada last summer or the one before . . .
And he won.
When a guy has to go to the Supreme Court to get the right to obtain a required surgery because it's taking far too long on the official government plan, that tells you that the system is garbage.
No thanks on that.
But it won't matter in the end.
Government is a cancer, and there is no treatment available at this point - so Govt will grow and grow and Andy Capp will get his way.
And "democracy" will continue for a little while longer.
It's funny. Between the elitists and the Marxists, I'm much more afraid of the Marxists - at least the elitists will let me out-compete the idiot in the trailer park described above - Andy Capp won't even let me have that.
Universal health care is one of the few justifiable, worthwhile services government can provide. Naturally therefore, it's a service US taxpayers don't receive, unless they're old enough to be close to croaking anyway.
Socialism is rampant in the US. The military is a vast socialist system.
We're all tired of hearing about how crappy the Canadian health care system is. That's propaganda. THAT's crap. I'd sell my eye tooth to have access to the Canadian system. It would sure beat NOTHING, which is exactly what I have after working for 27 years.
