well it's better than bush's plan to make the whitehouse look like a giant dildo. he said it would make it more aerodynamical, and a difficulter object to hit.
The thing you guys are missing is voting for Obama or McCain will yield the same results. More taxes, more spending, less personal freedoms. We've been divided and bicker amongst ourselves while there's a bigger agenda were not seeing. Neither candidate will veer far enough from the middle to elicit any lasting "change", but just enough to seem loyal to their party. It's a lose-lose situation for America either way...
Yeah roland has a point. If McCain is elected we get big spending for defense and drilling and the Obama wants to socialize health care so either way there is going to be huge national budgets, just the money is going to different places
you arent taking into account the huge costs of war, bribing neighboring countries, warlords, and politicians. plus the attempted privitization of the military costing billions more than it would have to let the military do their own job
getting out of iraq, and preventing a war in iran will save so much money after obama gives everyone insurance, i say insurance because its much more likely the government will start providing insurance than healthcare, there will probably be a surplus
after all, without the iraq war if all that money was saved there would be a $2.5 trillion surplus, but not really because most of it was borrowed from china but you get the point
Letting the private market to it's job would fix healthcare. Currently, the democrats have made it hard for the average joe to get healthcare in this country by adding all these bullshit roadblocks to making it completely affordable. Then they turn around and complain that it's not affordable. WTF?
Socialized helthcare would be a complete disaster for this country. Why do you think so many canadians go across the border when they need the serious shit done and cant wait for 4 months? Why do people think more government is the answer to everyone's problems?
billys a retard and doesnt factor corporate greed into the equation
socializing our healthcare would cost too many jobs and probably isnt a good idea, i think we should have government provided health insurance that you can buy into if you want and dont if you like what you have now (or dont have)
the great thing about having gov. insurance would be they arent trying to make money, theyre trying to help our millions without healthcare so instead of ruthlessly investigating everyone who files a claim to save an hmo money more people would get the help they really need instead of falsely thinking they are covered and getting robbed by insurance companies
There seem to be some illegal immigration issues there, because, ya know, thousands and thousands of people sneak in looking for work. Of course, a lazy cunt, like yourself, would never be looking for work.
It doesn't matter who you know Gringo Junkie. Lots and lots of people move there every year. I wonder how many Venezuelans immigrate to America every year?
thats right, i would never be looking for work. being a fucktard that has to work so and so many hours everyday taking orders from some fat bastard, 2 weeks of vacation a year or something isnt my cup of tea. even though ive been brought up in a soceity like you, where its normal do do such (being a mordern slave,) i dont find it acceptable. i guess its cause ive managed to not be a sheep that follows everyone around, ive got my own ideas
Kojach. "Corporate Greed" is an unfortunate consequence of a free capitalistic society. It's not perfect, but a slightly better than anything having to deal with social structures. Buying into anything government has never really worked out in the long run for anyone. Hello communism? The programs usually inflate to unsustainable monsters and then cripple economy's. Take Social Security for example. This current social system is going to cripple us someday if we dont do something about it now.
Putting doctors under the rule of government is just not a good idea for the USA. Privatize, and remove the roadblocks currently in place making it unaffordable and then let the free market run it's course. That will make healthcare affordable for all.
The capitalist system is based on greed. Nothing wrong with that but to expect that system to provide affordable healthcare. Capitilism will always extract the maximum price possible. How is that supposed to provide "affordable" health care for everyone.
There are some altruistic support services of society that can not be left to the private sector.
k-billy i've read about 20 of your little fuckin novels and you're full of shit...a little 20 year old buttslammer who thinks because he has an opinion it's valid...shut your pie-hole motherfucker
Hank the only thing that made health care unaffordable is the fucking insurance. When something is covered by insurance, it costs a shitload. Doesn't matter what it is. Insurance gets involved and now you don't just pay a doc to sew your dick back on after your dog bites it off, now you pay your doc, pay his malpractice insurance, pay the insurance agent, pay the fucking execs, pay the fucking bribes to the government officials, etc.
Go to countries with no insurance, government run or otherwise, and you can a reasonable cost to get the service in a reasonable time and have it done right. There is no reason medical procedures need to cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. There's no reason a hospital should be billing over a thousand a night. It's all fucking insurance.
Hank, I am sure you appreciate your profession. Do you answer to the government, or are you a private entity? I dont really know how it works over there in Japan, but lets just say for shits and giggles, you are a privately owned school that works the same way over here in America. You enjoy setting your own rates, even choosing your own students. People have a choice. They can choose you, or Joe Blow across the street. You set your prices accordingly, and make your profits accordingly.
I am sure you would love the government to step in a force you into their own system. Apply this scenario with the current push for socialized medicine. Instead of choosing your students, rates, etc, you are mandated. Equality for all comrade.
k-billy you butt-inferno you're just the type of assbag to hang out at planet hollywood...having a gay-off with the next table pontificating to no fucking end
billy communism is a good system its just everyone who tries it is a fucking dumbass (not to mention fascist) stalin tried it but he was a dumbass, when he took over all the farms and farmers he made them grow what he told them to and they know more about how to grow crops than he does, so all the crops die his country starves, yada yada yada
a communist dictatorship is just a terrible idea because one mother fucker doesnt have all the answers, much less one mother fucker that would even want to take over a country like that
i think a communist democracy would have a good shot at working, but we shouldnt just run around socializing everything....walmart can stay because somehow they manage to be capitalist pigs while providing low prices, i think its cause of the slave labor in asia but fuck it you cant fix the whole world why try
El_Wanko says:
Hank the only thing that made health care unaffordable is the fucking insurance. When something is covered by insurance, it costs a shitload. Doesn't matter what it is. Insurance gets involved and now you don't just pay a doc to sew your dick back on after your dog bites it off, now you pay your doc, pay his malpractice insurance, pay the insurance agent, pay the fucking execs, pay the fucking bribes to the government officials, etc.
Go to countries with no insurance, government run or otherwise, and you can a reasonable cost to get the service in a reasonable time and have it done right. There is no reason medical procedures need to cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. There's no reason a hospital should be billing over a thousand a night. It's all fucking insurance.
man, im surprised you would be so fucking stupid to stand up for an insurance company. your as worthless as hank
Wtf are you talking about K-Billy with that hamburger thing? That's just stupid. If people would pay 200$ for a hamburger that's what other people would charge. If the hamburger vendors could only get away with 190$ then that would be the price. If someone charges less than he can, he won't be as competitive as the other hamburger vendors, who are charging as much as they can, and may well go out of business. It's simple and common sense. For all the somewhat intelligent shit you spout, that was really dumb. Judging by that hamburger comment it seems you don't seem to have a good sense of what capitalism is all about.
Billy's example made sense. If no one is gonna pay $200 for a burger, then no one is gonna charge $200 for a burger.
However, if we were all forced into a government food-insurance plan that covered our eating costs, you can bet the price of a meal would skyrocket overnight.
No, because if you just mention the selling price, then we automatically assume the purchase price for the raw materials (ground beef) is the same for all the vendors. Walmart keeps their overhead lower than others so they can offer lower prices on the other end. It's pretty simple to understand, I would think.
"If no one is gonna pay $200 for a burger, then no one is gonna charge $200 for a burger." Duh, that's what I was saying. People will be charged as much as they can be, but since you are bringing the other side into it as well, then maybe it would be more accurate to say that businesses will always strive for the greatest difference between what they are paying and what they are getting. Of course, right?
With that comment I was trying to show you a way the system works. No one is going to pay that much for a burger. I see what you are saying hank, but I still think people will go elsewhere for business when something costs too much. You know, free market, supply and demand. All that.
Duh, If people can just go somewhere else for a cheaper burger (of the same quality) than you can't charge that much. If the cheapest burger is 200 bucks then you pay that much or more. Go somewhere else?
There is no "too much" for a burger or anything else. There is what people will pay, and what you can get the goods for on your end.
Well as I remember it you were trying to say capitalism was the reason for high health care costs because it was based on greed. Then billy pointed out that if it was that simple, why don't we see greedy fast food joints charging $200 for a burger.
And of course it isn't that simple. In other capitalist countries where insurance doesn't yet rule, you pay a reasonable amount for health care. It's comparable to other skilled trades and your hospital time is comparable to other lodging with service. Unlike here where your surgery comes in at $50,000 even though you dog had the same operation for $500, and your insurance company is billed over a grand per night while a real nice hotel is only $150.
People charge as much for burgers and operations as they can. If insurance makes it so that hospitals can charge $50,000 instead of $500, then that's what they will charge. I haven't concerned myself with why American hospitals charge so much. I'm simply saying (It seems simple. Why are people trying to argue the point?) that the business of business is to make as much money as one can and part of that is charging as much as people will pay.
And you said in a capitalist society, you couldn't get affordable health care. The way I see it a lot of capitalist societies provide exactly that. It's only when government gets involved, under the guise of being altruistic, that the price skyrockets. You have politicians and insurance companies and banks and lawyers and consultants and an entire fucking industry that wants to get paid off, and they don't really care if people pay insurance premiums themselves, or tax dollars pay for it. As long as there is insurance it can never work.
Get the government out of the health care business 100%, and it will become affordable again. Sure, somethings really do cost a shitload even without the price being jacked up. But the way I see it, if you need half a million bucks worth of health care, that's mother nature's way of telling you it's your turn to die.
And you said in a capitalist society, you couldn't get affordable health care. The way I see it a lot of capitalist societies provide exactly that. It's only when government gets involved, under the guise of being altruistic, that the price skyrockets. You have politicians and insurance companies and banks and lawyers and consultants and an entire fucking industry that wants to get paid off, and they don't really care if people pay insurance premiums themselves, or tax dollars pay for it. As long as there is insurance it can never work.
Get the government out of the health care business 100%, and it will become affordable again. Sure, somethings really do cost a shitload even without the price being jacked up. But the way I see it, if you need half a million bucks worth of health care, that's mother nature's way of telling you it's your turn to die.
What I said was,
"Capitilism will always extract the maximum price possible.
There are some altruistic support services of society that can not be left to the private sector"
Now, it sounds like you are saying insurance companies and the government are the same thing. Also, don't countries with socialized healthcare like Canada and England get it for free, or very cheap? Doesn't seem like the government being involved there makes it more expensive. They are paying for everyone!
You're the gleaming pillar of intellect and wit here Tired Guy, everybody knows that. Would you be so kind as to bathe this retard in your healing spring of enlightenment?
well if i had i would be smart enough to know whether or not is was actually a madras, which the school obama went to was not
did you see that stupid cunt chris mathews talked to at the dnc who claimed that? yeah, you look like a stupid cunt that cant accept the fact no one likes hillary too now
cnn went to the alledged madras and talked to his former classmates there and completely debunked those claims, you mustve missed it because you cant turn the tv away from fixed noise for a few minutes to hear an unbiased report
Well, he was just a little kid at the time. It's not like he got to choose what school he went to. Maybe you think his white mother from Kansas wanted him to become a jihadist?
They moved to Indonesia because his mom married an Indonesian guy.
I read his autobiography. He's had a really interesting life.
i dont know the difference between "right" "left" and ..... """middle""" but what i'd like to know are what does he want to do?
i know that the americans only care about what the politicians "say" but do any of them actually seem like they are going to deliver on anything they have said?
I don't give a shit where someone lived or someone went to school, or where they live now... what I care about is what they are trying to accomplish if they get elected.
I don't know who will win... I guess its between obama and mccain? that seems to be what people are talking about anyway... what I want to know is who is going to try to stabilize america and then help it grow, if it means go to war or pull out... because in my opinion thats what america needs at the moment, someone who has all the facts and figtures, and can make some economical decisions with iraq... hell... even just make some choices based off of guts... just make a choice :)
as canadians we are joined to you filthy americans.. so we always have an opinion...
facts like cnn went to the alledged madras and proved it was just a normal school that had nothing to do with religion? wait who are we talking about ignoring facts?
You can't argue with Republicans because the foundation of their beliefs is already fucked up.
A man died, floated into the clouds, watches us from up above and then wants our money whenever we go into a building to talk about him.
Yeah, right. FUCK YOU CUNTS.
My favorite tactic of those right-winger asshats is when they say you're a jew or unpatriotic because you question them.
Eat shit faggots. Republicans are the reason our country is in the shitter and the world hates us.
FLFisher, I'm talking to you cunt.
did any of you watch the DCN? he gave one of the greatest speeches ive ever heard in my 27 years.
and gay ass mcain thinks women are idiots. he nominates a WOMAN for his vice presidency hoping he can steal the women vote like were all fucking morons. hah! the tactic of a loser, and a Liar.
i think tiredguy is right actually....
a great speech is only that...
once someone gets elected if they are a great leader and make great changes then its something...
but as far as i see it, america is pretty fucked up.. i hope that whoever is elected has some pretty fucking revolutionary ideas
even if he became president he would still have no majority in the parliaments for real changes. and representatives get their seats only with the money of big business...
i was talking about mccains rally with his dumb bitch yesterday morning now obamas speech 2 nights ago it was amazing
and as far as congress goes its looking like the democrats will have a majority because no one wants to vote for retardicans after these past 8 years. and when theres a democratic majority in both houses with obama as president everyone will shut the fuck up and realize socialism isnt a bad thing when you know wtf youre doing
dont make me repeat bush attempting to privatize education and the military, 2 of the oldest and most successful government institutions, and failing miserably
not to mention the socialist institutions all around you, cops, firemen, traffic lights, road systems. that was possibly the dumbest thing ive ever heard from you and you say some stupid shit
Government schools are terrible!! Teachers unions are the devil as well. Our government schools are royally fucked in the head. Students i think now have to pass with a 50 or above? Am I correct?
passing is 60%, and yes unions are garbage and were corrupt from the start
but this no child left behind bullshit has caused the % of high school graduates to drop lower than its been in 10 years. its just a stupid system no matter how much time they give a school they will never have 100% students pass their nclb test so given enough time all schools will be handed over to private companies
wouldnt it be better to just get a great education in all public schools jewish dumbass? the public university im in in this shitty 3rd world country like you say, gives the best education theres to offer. besides having all meals payd everyday for all students, we have free medical specialists in every area, free dental you name it. for all students totally free
no billy sending kids to private schools on government money will not solve shit. there needs to be an entire reform in public schools 1-12 with a nation wide curriculum thats much more intense than it is now, and as they get toward 12 grade have kids take classes that prepare them for what they want to do after high school. public schooling should be much more intense so that by the time kids get to high school they dont even need to take an english class unless they want to be a writer or english major, or dont need to take math if they dont want to be a fuckin mathematician because theyve already been taught at a lower grade and they already know it.
and make kids take pe classes with drill instructors to work their fat asses off
He will. Palin will come back and bite McCain in the ass. It's a slap in the face to Hillary supporters thinking they are easy to sway. They'll be (and are as I've read) insulted. That bitch is: against abortion, gay rights, and want to take polar bears off of the endangered species list... What a CUNT!... I'd fuck her though!
Obama won't win and Palin will win the votes of people who don't give a fuck and just want to see her and her daughter on TV more. Hillary supporters are ugly lesbians and they wouldn't have voted for McCain anyway.
my prognosis:
of cause mccain will win. because of the russia georgia conflict he caught up to obama in the polls. i bet (by coincidence;)) there will be a conflict with iran or sth like that before the elections and the corporate media will make national security propaganda of it. people are irrational and the stupid, uninterested, uneducated masses will decide the election... (not to forget the hidden racism which people won't admit publicly)
Yeah dik you probably remember that dude in Ontario who was doing good and he might have won, but that wasn't the plan so he said some shit about funding religious schools to blow it all.
The Georgian conflict is exactly why OBAMA should win. McCain wants to focus on bullshit threats (Iraq) where Obama wanted to stay the course in Afghanistan. War-monger McCain will spread us so thin militarily we will have no one to send to the places we are really needed.
Obama said he was against the war and gave a big speech and everything, then being the pawn that he is he still voted for every bill to fund the Iraq war until he decided to run for president.
How? By continuing to spend us into oblivian or allowing even MORE big government programs to tell us how to live and what to think?
I know you're a big partisan junkie but BOTH parties are pretty much the same.
Yeah espada has a point. If McCain is elected we get big spending for defense and drilling and the Obama wants to socialize health care so either way there is going to be huge national budgets, just the money is going to different places
youre right hank we should abolish our income taxes and make a huge sales tax like everyone else
but the only person intelligent enough to realize that and ran for this year was ron paul and if you havent seen him hes a little....eccentric, and a republican which just doesnt mix
but of course getting rid of the irs would cost tons of jobs
our country is in the early stages of idiocracy, its completely fucked up, but a lot of people are still smart enough to fix it all we have to do is switch brawndo in for water, but it would just cost everyone their job
if you think about all the useless jobs there are out there if all those people had become physicists or chemists instead we could be in the star trek age
a progressive income tax (without loop holes) is actually the better solution, because sales taxes hit people with little income, families, collage students, pensioner,... hardest, because they have to spend the largest part of their income for their living expenses. rich people save more and invest their money. in the last decades the percentage (of national income) of capital incomes grew and the working incomes fell (not only in america!). so in best solution here would be a higher taxation of capital and speculation too. [that goes for all western countries].
Why punish rich people for being better than everyone else? I thought the point of America is that you could start with nothing and succeed. Now the point is you start with nothing and you can have a little but you have to share it and if you're smarter than other people you need to be knocked down a few notches to help out the fucking retards who have held you back you entire life.
And fucker lower income people. Hey, maybe try showing up to work on time every day instead of making excuses your entire life and hoping someone will give you more money anyway. Maybe finding a steady job before you get busy and make the taxpayers raise your 5 little faggot 'blessings' while you complain how hard it is to feed your family.
how is someone "better than everyone else" who for example inherits a fortune? why shouldn't people pay taxes by proportion of their wealth and income? don't you think that people are responsible for more than just themselves?
If people can't handle life then they can just fuck off and die. If you help them they just have a fucking shitload of kids from different parents and now you have to help those worthless fucks too.
We should just offer a program where you're not allowed any fucking food stamps or welfare or other bullshit unless you agree to be sterilized.
I read this just the other day and thought it applicable here.
What has happened in modern civilized man is that family sizes are no longer limited by the finite resources that the individual parents can provide. If a husband and wife have more children then they can feed, the state, which means the rest of the population, simply steps in and keeps the surplus children alive and healthy. There is, in fact, nothing to stop a couple with no material resources at all having and rearing as many children as the woman can physically bear. But the welfare state is a very unnatural thing. In nature, parents who have more children than they can support do not have many grandchildren, and their genes are not passed on to future generations.There is no need for altruistic restraint in the birth-rate, because there is no welfare state in nature. Any gene for overindulgance is promptly punished: the children containing that gene starve. Since we humans do not want to return to the old selfish ways where we let the children of too-large families starve to death, we have abolished the family as a unit of economic self-sufficiency, and substituted the state. But the privelege of guaranteed support for children should not be abused.
Contraception is sometimes attacked as 'unnatural'. So it is, very unnatural. The trouble is, so is the welfare state. I think most of us believe the welfare state is highly desirable. But, you cannot have an unnatural welfare state, unless you also have unnatural birth control, otherwise the end result will be misery even greater than that which obtains in nature.
Hank youll be happy as hell i did, no that i read the dribble above. Im all for the abolishment of welfare and government aid for clown car vaginas, people just get married and shit out kids because they think its what they are supposed to do, you can have a headache and get on welfare in the good ole USA.
actually it was sarcastic, i know you care about what i say as much as i care about what you say, however your quote was intelligent and composed enough i thought it a good read.
This is the second book of that guy that I've read. Good stuff. The God Delusion is a recent book of his that I read first. Very good. This one, The Selfish Gene wasn't as good for me. It has good parts and boring parts, but overall it's good. Difficult science written for the layman.
Look at the (low income) workaholics that get their panties in a bunch about welfare. Isn't the slogan of this site "Tasteless Humor for The Unemployed"?! Just saying lol.
There's nothing wrong with obtaining welfare for a period of time if it helps you getting back on your feet and being a "productive member of society" (again). Just don't do it for several years and abuse the system on purpose.
Yeah I read it. That's why I was saying the dude probably takes a lot of flack for saying stuff like that. I've heard nicer stuff called 'hate speech'.
Welfare should just be gone. You know what you're supposed to do when you are unemployed for a while? You find another job and dip into your savings. 'Savings' is that money you put away instead of spending every cent of income you had on beer, smokes, car payments, and that big screen tv.
If you give people a safety net, they do all kinds of stupid shit up on the tightrope.
well, dawkins does NOT make a cheap, vulgar polemic against welfare state here! he simply points out the obvious fact that the biological limitations can't be the only thing that limits how many children a woman gets and so we need "unnatural birth control" too. well that's common sense today at least in western societies as well as that of cause "guaranteed support for children should not be abused". so who is that "modern civilized man" dawkins talks about? the reproduction rates in the western welfare states aren't self-sustaining for a constant population even today. i think you guys confuse that humans are not biological beings but cultural beings in the first place when it comes to reproduction. so who is it who reproduces too much in today's world? it's people from cultures which hardly can be described as "modern" or "civilized" where the welfare state does NOT have replaced traditional family structures and values (yet)!!! it's uneducated and religious people both in the west and especially in the developing countries. the highest birthrates are in the arab world, africa and india where you can hardly speak of a developed welfare state! "finite resources" are these days not so strictly limited any more because of economic and social developments in hygiene, technology, agriculture and so on in the last 200 years (that's what he means with welfare). dawkins whole argument is that we DON'T live in a natural state any more and so we can't be against "contraceptions" simply because it was "unnatural"...
He said what he said. Wtf are you going on about Romeo? I presented a fair portion of that bit. You act like it's taken out of context. It isn't. He says the welfare state is a good thing, but shouldn't be abused. That's it.
probably i was angry about wanko. i hate it when people parrot that primitive neoliberal small government propaganda crap. so i felt i had to explain why vulgar socialdarwinism is bullshit. and it's you who came up with the genes...
What happened to Hillary Clinton? Anyway i dont think its mather, because they probebly throw all votes in a cointainer without even read them , then the big guys choose who´s going to be the next spotlight bitch for 4years.
Hahaha. Plantshit's a crazy hermit in the woods of Sweden and he knows more about the American voting system than most of us Americans...actually...that's fucking depressing now that I think about it.
Damnit toolman haven't you learned that politics on mucho always ends with someone bashing someone else and neither one knows shit about what they are talking about
yeah, i just pick the post that has the most comments, kick back and enjoy the impotentent venom...which would be a great name for a nowegian death metal band, by the way
Comments to If Obama Wins
OMG! Obama's going to install giant Hershey Kisses on the White House? =o
Yes, he has a chocolate deficiency.
and make look like russia
If Obama wins, will the next million monkey march end up in a bbq on the white house's front lawn?
fart knocker
durka durka
well it's better than bush's plan to make the whitehouse look like a giant dildo. he said it would make it more aerodynamical, and a difficulter object to hit.
Try "more difficult" Bush-brain.
Uh, that was the joke
Newguy, that was as funny as a Nuculer Dentona... detorn... defaca... dammit! A Nuculer Boom!
Duh, Pat...it's pronounced "nucular"???
Ah, jokes on me...
i'd much rather the white house smell like adult diapers and icy hot.
kinda like its been since it was biult?
im ready for change
now he's got a WOMAN as a running mate! Oh lord! the rednecks will have to vote ron paul now.
The thing you guys are missing is voting for Obama or McCain will yield the same results. More taxes, more spending, less personal freedoms. We've been divided and bicker amongst ourselves while there's a bigger agenda were not seeing. Neither candidate will veer far enough from the middle to elicit any lasting "change", but just enough to seem loyal to their party. It's a lose-lose situation for America either way...
but i'd bang obama's wife
Me too. And I'd bang the chick running for VP.
Palin's a looker no doubt.
I just masterbated.
I'd bang Megan McCain.
... with a hot skillet
chelsea has a pretty nice, undocumented ass
people should take more pictures
naw roland. Vote libertarian.
Yeah roland has a point. If McCain is elected we get big spending for defense and drilling and the Obama wants to socialize health care so either way there is going to be huge national budgets, just the money is going to different places
I'm either voting for Massad Ayoob, or Ted Nugent. Might be a coin toss..
I'm not allowed to vote.
you arent taking into account the huge costs of war, bribing neighboring countries, warlords, and politicians. plus the attempted privitization of the military costing billions more than it would have to let the military do their own job
getting out of iraq, and preventing a war in iran will save so much money after obama gives everyone insurance, i say insurance because its much more likely the government will start providing insurance than healthcare, there will probably be a surplus
after all, without the iraq war if all that money was saved there would be a $2.5 trillion surplus, but not really because most of it was borrowed from china but you get the point
i don't get the point actually ;/
so is the american healthcare system going to be fixed or is it going to stay in the shithouse like it is now?
1rish, are you a felon or something that you can't vote?
Yeah, he was busted for sexually abusing kittens.
But, that's not why he can't vote. He can't vote because he's allergic to hanging chads.
Letting the private market to it's job would fix healthcare. Currently, the democrats have made it hard for the average joe to get healthcare in this country by adding all these bullshit roadblocks to making it completely affordable. Then they turn around and complain that it's not affordable. WTF?
Socialized helthcare would be a complete disaster for this country. Why do you think so many canadians go across the border when they need the serious shit done and cant wait for 4 months? Why do people think more government is the answer to everyone's problems?
stfu, youre the dumbest jew ive ever met
actually "socialized healthcare" like in germany or france is much cheaper than the current us system and everybody gets the treatments he needs...
billys a retard and doesnt factor corporate greed into the equation
socializing our healthcare would cost too many jobs and probably isnt a good idea, i think we should have government provided health insurance that you can buy into if you want and dont if you like what you have now (or dont have)
the great thing about having gov. insurance would be they arent trying to make money, theyre trying to help our millions without healthcare so instead of ruthlessly investigating everyone who files a claim to save an hmo money more people would get the help they really need instead of falsely thinking they are covered and getting robbed by insurance companies
the us is a 3rd world country of its worse kind, its like the little africa in america.
Is that why everyone wants to move there?
but, with expensive drugs. wow what a shithole
i dont know anyone that wants to move there
There seem to be some illegal immigration issues there, because, ya know, thousands and thousands of people sneak in looking for work. Of course, a lazy cunt, like yourself, would never be looking for work.
It doesn't matter who you know Gringo Junkie. Lots and lots of people move there every year. I wonder how many Venezuelans immigrate to America every year?
thats right, i would never be looking for work. being a fucktard that has to work so and so many hours everyday taking orders from some fat bastard, 2 weeks of vacation a year or something isnt my cup of tea. even though ive been brought up in a soceity like you, where its normal do do such (being a mordern slave,) i dont find it acceptable. i guess its cause ive managed to not be a sheep that follows everyone around, ive got my own ideas
Here are some immigration numbers. As you can see America is the number one country and has three times as many immigrants as the number two country.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/imm_imm_pop_num_of_imm-immigration-immigrant-population-number-immigrants
you guys are all experts on everything, clearly.
Ya know, Buttface, if a person was curious about something they could look it up pretty quickly on the internet.
nuh uh
Kojach. "Corporate Greed" is an unfortunate consequence of a free capitalistic society. It's not perfect, but a slightly better than anything having to deal with social structures. Buying into anything government has never really worked out in the long run for anyone. Hello communism? The programs usually inflate to unsustainable monsters and then cripple economy's. Take Social Security for example. This current social system is going to cripple us someday if we dont do something about it now.
Putting doctors under the rule of government is just not a good idea for the USA. Privatize, and remove the roadblocks currently in place making it unaffordable and then let the free market run it's course. That will make healthcare affordable for all.
Sure it will.
The capitalist system is based on greed. Nothing wrong with that but to expect that system to provide affordable healthcare. Capitilism will always extract the maximum price possible. How is that supposed to provide "affordable" health care for everyone.
There are some altruistic support services of society that can not be left to the private sector.
I don't like to type a lot, so I won't, but people who yearn to rely on the government are slaves in waiting.
k-billy i've read about 20 of your little fuckin novels and you're full of shit...a little 20 year old buttslammer who thinks because he has an opinion it's valid...shut your pie-hole motherfucker
are you autistic rainman?
zing
gongs show
Hank the only thing that made health care unaffordable is the fucking insurance. When something is covered by insurance, it costs a shitload. Doesn't matter what it is. Insurance gets involved and now you don't just pay a doc to sew your dick back on after your dog bites it off, now you pay your doc, pay his malpractice insurance, pay the insurance agent, pay the fucking execs, pay the fucking bribes to the government officials, etc.
Go to countries with no insurance, government run or otherwise, and you can a reasonable cost to get the service in a reasonable time and have it done right. There is no reason medical procedures need to cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. There's no reason a hospital should be billing over a thousand a night. It's all fucking insurance.
Hank, I am sure you appreciate your profession. Do you answer to the government, or are you a private entity? I dont really know how it works over there in Japan, but lets just say for shits and giggles, you are a privately owned school that works the same way over here in America. You enjoy setting your own rates, even choosing your own students. People have a choice. They can choose you, or Joe Blow across the street. You set your prices accordingly, and make your profits accordingly.
I am sure you would love the government to step in a force you into their own system. Apply this scenario with the current push for socialized medicine. Instead of choosing your students, rates, etc, you are mandated. Equality for all comrade.
^wonder how dumb that was
k-billy how old are you?
Old enough to ignore people like you.
the shit you say is so boring i get distracted by the tiny movements of my arrow thing whist i scratch my giant balls
i'm guessing 17
dik:1
k-billy:0
them's the breaks godsucker
"Capitilism will always extract the maximum price possible."
I just caught that Hank. So, if what you say is true, then I guess selling a $200 hamburger would work then?
A $200 hamburger wouldn't work, but if somebody managed to sell them at $20, the rest would start to follow suit.
I think Planet Hollywood failed already.
funny i have a hamburger for sale for 160
k-billy you butt-inferno you're just the type of assbag to hang out at planet hollywood...having a gay-off with the next table pontificating to no fucking end
140 and it's a deal.
fries, pay the man.
billy communism is a good system its just everyone who tries it is a fucking dumbass (not to mention fascist) stalin tried it but he was a dumbass, when he took over all the farms and farmers he made them grow what he told them to and they know more about how to grow crops than he does, so all the crops die his country starves, yada yada yada
a communist dictatorship is just a terrible idea because one mother fucker doesnt have all the answers, much less one mother fucker that would even want to take over a country like that
i think a communist democracy would have a good shot at working, but we shouldnt just run around socializing everything....walmart can stay because somehow they manage to be capitalist pigs while providing low prices, i think its cause of the slave labor in asia but fuck it you cant fix the whole world why try
Orwell was spot on about communism in Animal Farm
people should just die so i can smoke drugs in peace
who would supply the drugs then elchris?
"communistic democracy" how the hell would that work?
i would grow them my self, of course
El_Wanko says:
Hank the only thing that made health care unaffordable is the fucking insurance. When something is covered by insurance, it costs a shitload. Doesn't matter what it is. Insurance gets involved and now you don't just pay a doc to sew your dick back on after your dog bites it off, now you pay your doc, pay his malpractice insurance, pay the insurance agent, pay the fucking execs, pay the fucking bribes to the government officials, etc.
Go to countries with no insurance, government run or otherwise, and you can a reasonable cost to get the service in a reasonable time and have it done right. There is no reason medical procedures need to cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. There's no reason a hospital should be billing over a thousand a night. It's all fucking insurance.
man, im surprised you would be so fucking stupid to stand up for an insurance company. your as worthless as hank
hey, i just reread that, im pretty drunk, my mistake. wanko is actually one of the few cool persons here
Never in my time on earth have I heard someone refer to someone else as a "butt inferno". I laughed.
Wtf are you talking about K-Billy with that hamburger thing? That's just stupid. If people would pay 200$ for a hamburger that's what other people would charge. If the hamburger vendors could only get away with 190$ then that would be the price. If someone charges less than he can, he won't be as competitive as the other hamburger vendors, who are charging as much as they can, and may well go out of business. It's simple and common sense. For all the somewhat intelligent shit you spout, that was really dumb. Judging by that hamburger comment it seems you don't seem to have a good sense of what capitalism is all about.
mmmmm hamburgers
The market will determine the going rate.
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Hank places like Walmart built their business on charging less than other places for the same thing. And it's the other places that go under.
Billy's example made sense. If no one is gonna pay $200 for a burger, then no one is gonna charge $200 for a burger.
However, if we were all forced into a government food-insurance plan that covered our eating costs, you can bet the price of a meal would skyrocket overnight.
No, because if you just mention the selling price, then we automatically assume the purchase price for the raw materials (ground beef) is the same for all the vendors. Walmart keeps their overhead lower than others so they can offer lower prices on the other end. It's pretty simple to understand, I would think.
"If no one is gonna pay $200 for a burger, then no one is gonna charge $200 for a burger." Duh, that's what I was saying. People will be charged as much as they can be, but since you are bringing the other side into it as well, then maybe it would be more accurate to say that businesses will always strive for the greatest difference between what they are paying and what they are getting. Of course, right?
all and all, this conversation is pretty stupid
You wouldn't know stupid from smart, Gringo.
admit that its stupid. gringos never admit anything
You go first.
well that's risky coming from you isn't it?
i hope you like me as much as i like you, pops
you're too insignificant to even think about longer than this sentence
With that comment I was trying to show you a way the system works. No one is going to pay that much for a burger. I see what you are saying hank, but I still think people will go elsewhere for business when something costs too much. You know, free market, supply and demand. All that.
i know you dont really mean that, pops. i like you, youre like an uncle to me
Duh, If people can just go somewhere else for a cheaper burger (of the same quality) than you can't charge that much. If the cheapest burger is 200 bucks then you pay that much or more. Go somewhere else?
There is no "too much" for a burger or anything else. There is what people will pay, and what you can get the goods for on your end.
Well as I remember it you were trying to say capitalism was the reason for high health care costs because it was based on greed. Then billy pointed out that if it was that simple, why don't we see greedy fast food joints charging $200 for a burger.
And of course it isn't that simple. In other capitalist countries where insurance doesn't yet rule, you pay a reasonable amount for health care. It's comparable to other skilled trades and your hospital time is comparable to other lodging with service. Unlike here where your surgery comes in at $50,000 even though you dog had the same operation for $500, and your insurance company is billed over a grand per night while a real nice hotel is only $150.
I think Hank and elchris should take it outside! (I've got the camera and lights set up. Someone bring the beer!)
People charge as much for burgers and operations as they can. If insurance makes it so that hospitals can charge $50,000 instead of $500, then that's what they will charge. I haven't concerned myself with why American hospitals charge so much. I'm simply saying (It seems simple. Why are people trying to argue the point?) that the business of business is to make as much money as one can and part of that is charging as much as people will pay.
And you said in a capitalist society, you couldn't get affordable health care. The way I see it a lot of capitalist societies provide exactly that. It's only when government gets involved, under the guise of being altruistic, that the price skyrockets. You have politicians and insurance companies and banks and lawyers and consultants and an entire fucking industry that wants to get paid off, and they don't really care if people pay insurance premiums themselves, or tax dollars pay for it. As long as there is insurance it can never work.
Get the government out of the health care business 100%, and it will become affordable again. Sure, somethings really do cost a shitload even without the price being jacked up. But the way I see it, if you need half a million bucks worth of health care, that's mother nature's way of telling you it's your turn to die.
And you said in a capitalist society, you couldn't get affordable health care. The way I see it a lot of capitalist societies provide exactly that. It's only when government gets involved, under the guise of being altruistic, that the price skyrockets. You have politicians and insurance companies and banks and lawyers and consultants and an entire fucking industry that wants to get paid off, and they don't really care if people pay insurance premiums themselves, or tax dollars pay for it. As long as there is insurance it can never work.
Get the government out of the health care business 100%, and it will become affordable again. Sure, somethings really do cost a shitload even without the price being jacked up. But the way I see it, if you need half a million bucks worth of health care, that's mother nature's way of telling you it's your turn to die.
Hmm how'd I do that? First double post ever.
What I said was,
"Capitilism will always extract the maximum price possible.
There are some altruistic support services of society that can not be left to the private sector"
Now, it sounds like you are saying insurance companies and the government are the same thing. Also, don't countries with socialized healthcare like Canada and England get it for free, or very cheap? Doesn't seem like the government being involved there makes it more expensive. They are paying for everyone!
He'll have the White House on an episode of "Cribs".
"yo... now we gon stroll down to da garage to peep out my tight-ass whips, ya heard"
"This shit right here, nigga? This shit right here? It's nothin, nigga, it's nothin'...."
"....and this is where the magic happens!"
But they forgot the minarets at the four corners!
He's not muslim.
He is Marxist, though..
If that's what lets ya sleep at night...
Marxist? interesting... obviously you're retarded, but that's cool.
You're the gleaming pillar of intellect and wit here Tired Guy, everybody knows that. Would you be so kind as to bathe this retard in your healing spring of enlightenment?
Yeah Hank, we all go to Jakarta to attend a Madrasah because we are Christian.
well if i had i would be smart enough to know whether or not is was actually a madras, which the school obama went to was not
did you see that stupid cunt chris mathews talked to at the dnc who claimed that? yeah, you look like a stupid cunt that cant accept the fact no one likes hillary too now
cnn went to the alledged madras and talked to his former classmates there and completely debunked those claims, you mustve missed it because you cant turn the tv away from fixed noise for a few minutes to hear an unbiased report
Well, he was just a little kid at the time. It's not like he got to choose what school he went to. Maybe you think his white mother from Kansas wanted him to become a jihadist?
They moved to Indonesia because his mom married an Indonesian guy.
I read his autobiography. He's had a really interesting life.
I'll have to pick that up next time I go to Barnes and Noble. Maybe get a vanilla chai latte from Starbucks while i'm there.
All the major networks are biased, including CNN.
fixed is right, nbc is left, and cnn is the closest to the middle
except for headline, thats where cnn puts their crazys like glen dick and nancy disgraceful
I only get my news from Fox.
Do you mean Glenn Beck? He's on CNN, and is a pretty funny guy, Nancy Grace on the other hand should be scalped and burnt on a pyre.
no hes on headline now, theres only relatively respectable people on the main cnn channel now
As should Shawn Hannity and Rush Limbaugh.
I would roast a victory marshmallow over those two if you threw in Michael Moore and Al Franken to even out the heat.
How is CNN in the middle? CNN is pretty damn liberal. I'm a fan of ABC news, and don't even get me started on Fox news.
I'm in the middle because I can't fit on either side
He barely lived in Indonesia. He's a local Hawaiian bruddah!
i dont know the difference between "right" "left" and ..... """middle""" but what i'd like to know are what does he want to do?
i know that the americans only care about what the politicians "say" but do any of them actually seem like they are going to deliver on anything they have said?
I don't give a shit where someone lived or someone went to school, or where they live now... what I care about is what they are trying to accomplish if they get elected.
I don't know who will win... I guess its between obama and mccain? that seems to be what people are talking about anyway... what I want to know is who is going to try to stabilize america and then help it grow, if it means go to war or pull out... because in my opinion thats what america needs at the moment, someone who has all the facts and figtures, and can make some economical decisions with iraq... hell... even just make some choices based off of guts... just make a choice :)
as canadians we are joined to you filthy americans.. so we always have an opinion...
the right is the one you write with
whammy
Al Franken is going to be my senator come November, Roland.
U betcha.
yak said 'pull out'
He wasn't talking to me.
<--guilty
just ignore tired guy Roland. He's nothing around here these days when it comes to political bullshiting.
just a one hit wonder, that guy.
Why isn't it racist for a black person to state they are voting for Obama because he's black?
Oh wait, it is.
PS: Kojach is a liberal douche. You can't debate with these people because they ignore facts and rely on the dogma handed to them by their leaders.
^lol?
facts like cnn went to the alledged madras and proved it was just a normal school that had nothing to do with religion? wait who are we talking about ignoring facts?
You can't argue with Republicans because the foundation of their beliefs is already fucked up.
A man died, floated into the clouds, watches us from up above and then wants our money whenever we go into a building to talk about him.
Yeah, right. FUCK YOU CUNTS.
My favorite tactic of those right-winger asshats is when they say you're a jew or unpatriotic because you question them.
Eat shit faggots. Republicans are the reason our country is in the shitter and the world hates us.
FLFisher, I'm talking to you cunt.
so, all republicans are christians? i don't think so
did any of you watch the DCN? he gave one of the greatest speeches ive ever heard in my 27 years.
and gay ass mcain thinks women are idiots. he nominates a WOMAN for his vice presidency hoping he can steal the women vote like were all fucking morons. hah! the tactic of a loser, and a Liar.
great speeches cannot unfuck this country.
hes been doing and saying stupid shit for the past year but after that rally this morning i knew he was just done
Fuck you guys... Morph's right. he kicked John-boy's ass in that speech! Obama '08 bitches!
i think tiredguy is right actually....
a great speech is only that...
once someone gets elected if they are a great leader and make great changes then its something...
but as far as i see it, america is pretty fucked up.. i hope that whoever is elected has some pretty fucking revolutionary ideas
even if he became president he would still have no majority in the parliaments for real changes. and representatives get their seats only with the money of big business...
Like Merkel and Gazprom?
merkel is actually anti-russian and a us bootlicker
i was talking about mccains rally with his dumb bitch yesterday morning now obamas speech 2 nights ago it was amazing
and as far as congress goes its looking like the democrats will have a majority because no one wants to vote for retardicans after these past 8 years. and when theres a democratic majority in both houses with obama as president everyone will shut the fuck up and realize socialism isnt a bad thing when you know wtf youre doing
No one is gonna vote for a nigger though.
You are a nigger.
hes a decent nigger
Not really.
All niggers are decent you fucking racist.
hojack, socialism is a bad thing. Period.
dont make me repeat bush attempting to privatize education and the military, 2 of the oldest and most successful government institutions, and failing miserably
not to mention the socialist institutions all around you, cops, firemen, traffic lights, road systems. that was possibly the dumbest thing ive ever heard from you and you say some stupid shit
just because you cant make money off it doesnt make it a bad thing
like people worshiping jesus without a church and preacher to steal their money (not condoning jesus worship though)
Government schools are terrible!! Teachers unions are the devil as well. Our government schools are royally fucked in the head. Students i think now have to pass with a 50 or above? Am I correct?
passing is 60%, and yes unions are garbage and were corrupt from the start
but this no child left behind bullshit has caused the % of high school graduates to drop lower than its been in 10 years. its just a stupid system no matter how much time they give a school they will never have 100% students pass their nclb test so given enough time all schools will be handed over to private companies
School quality varies by state. Where I went in Minnesota they are pretty good.
That's a good thing, right kojach? I mean, having parents decide where their kids go would actually improve their situation I bet.
wouldnt it be better to just get a great education in all public schools jewish dumbass? the public university im in in this shitty 3rd world country like you say, gives the best education theres to offer. besides having all meals payd everyday for all students, we have free medical specialists in every area, free dental you name it. for all students totally free
theres even a kindergarden area where sluts can have theyr bastard children while theyr in class
no billy sending kids to private schools on government money will not solve shit. there needs to be an entire reform in public schools 1-12 with a nation wide curriculum thats much more intense than it is now, and as they get toward 12 grade have kids take classes that prepare them for what they want to do after high school. public schooling should be much more intense so that by the time kids get to high school they dont even need to take an english class unless they want to be a writer or english major, or dont need to take math if they dont want to be a fuckin mathematician because theyve already been taught at a lower grade and they already know it.
and make kids take pe classes with drill instructors to work their fat asses off
I guess the call to prayer will be from the Washington Monument.
obama wont win anyway
i'm thinking you're right
He will. Palin will come back and bite McCain in the ass. It's a slap in the face to Hillary supporters thinking they are easy to sway. They'll be (and are as I've read) insulted. That bitch is: against abortion, gay rights, and want to take polar bears off of the endangered species list... What a CUNT!... I'd fuck her though!
Hypolovesaherpesman, you watch too much tv.
Obama won't win and Palin will win the votes of people who don't give a fuck and just want to see her and her daughter on TV more. Hillary supporters are ugly lesbians and they wouldn't have voted for McCain anyway.
at first i figured america would never vote a black guy in...then i though maybe..now i doubt it again.
"Politics for Dummies" by dik
and who will win
my prognosis:
of cause mccain will win. because of the russia georgia conflict he caught up to obama in the polls. i bet (by coincidence;)) there will be a conflict with iran or sth like that before the elections and the corporate media will make national security propaganda of it. people are irrational and the stupid, uninterested, uneducated masses will decide the election... (not to forget the hidden racism which people won't admit publicly)
In a McCain vs. Obama, my money is on McCain too. If he's too close to winning, he'll do something to fuck it up at the end.
Er, if Obama is too close to winning.
Obama will take it.
..all night long.
We should have a bet. If Obama doesn't become the president, Hank gets banned. If I does, I get banned.
*If HE does... fuck.
interesting stuff i just found:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPRQfVFu8xc
i'm pretty sure that dirty nigger el wanko is right
Hey don't call me a spanish wanker you asshole.
..oh wait.
Yeah dik you probably remember that dude in Ontario who was doing good and he might have won, but that wasn't the plan so he said some shit about funding religious schools to blow it all.
The Georgian conflict is exactly why OBAMA should win. McCain wants to focus on bullshit threats (Iraq) where Obama wanted to stay the course in Afghanistan. War-monger McCain will spread us so thin militarily we will have no one to send to the places we are really needed.
Obama said he was against the war and gave a big speech and everything, then being the pawn that he is he still voted for every bill to fund the Iraq war until he decided to run for president.
every one of them is as dirty corporate lawyer ..fact
haha that was soooo funny...
i wonder how retardicans are going to feel about him when the country is better than its ever been 4 years from now thanks to him
How? By continuing to spend us into oblivian or allowing even MORE big government programs to tell us how to live and what to think?
I know you're a big partisan junkie but BOTH parties are pretty much the same.
Yeah espada has a point. If McCain is elected we get big spending for defense and drilling and the Obama wants to socialize health care so either way there is going to be huge national budgets, just the money is going to different places
I just said the same thing way up top, but whatever... party on!
espada9.. so the patriot act is a way to keep your freedom? of course.
roland look up^^^ you happy?
Drum in '08!
WOOOOO!!!! I have to wait another 16 years before i am 35
just fyi.... socialized medicine does not equal "huge national budgets"
it however does mean you guys might have to evaluate the taxes you pay......
(not that people should have to pay personal taxes)
youre right hank we should abolish our income taxes and make a huge sales tax like everyone else
but the only person intelligent enough to realize that and ran for this year was ron paul and if you havent seen him hes a little....eccentric, and a republican which just doesnt mix
meant yak not hank...idk why i said that
Because if something wise is said it usually comes from me.
but of course getting rid of the irs would cost tons of jobs
our country is in the early stages of idiocracy, its completely fucked up, but a lot of people are still smart enough to fix it all we have to do is switch brawndo in for water, but it would just cost everyone their job
if you think about all the useless jobs there are out there if all those people had become physicists or chemists instead we could be in the star trek age
a progressive income tax (without loop holes) is actually the better solution, because sales taxes hit people with little income, families, collage students, pensioner,... hardest, because they have to spend the largest part of their income for their living expenses. rich people save more and invest their money. in the last decades the percentage (of national income) of capital incomes grew and the working incomes fell (not only in america!). so in best solution here would be a higher taxation of capital and speculation too. [that goes for all western countries].
Why punish rich people for being better than everyone else? I thought the point of America is that you could start with nothing and succeed. Now the point is you start with nothing and you can have a little but you have to share it and if you're smarter than other people you need to be knocked down a few notches to help out the fucking retards who have held you back you entire life.
And fucker lower income people. Hey, maybe try showing up to work on time every day instead of making excuses your entire life and hoping someone will give you more money anyway. Maybe finding a steady job before you get busy and make the taxpayers raise your 5 little faggot 'blessings' while you complain how hard it is to feed your family.
how is someone "better than everyone else" who for example inherits a fortune? why shouldn't people pay taxes by proportion of their wealth and income? don't you think that people are responsible for more than just themselves?
So much compassion.
Not helping anyone will actually create a better society.
Social Engineering for Dummies.
By El Wanko.
Hank, people can be charitable towards one another without legislation demanding it.
Yes, I knew that, but thanks.
I agree with Wanko.
People were far more charitable before the government started stealing from them.
Helping everyone will create a society of dependent weaklings.
If people can't handle life then they can just fuck off and die. If you help them they just have a fucking shitload of kids from different parents and now you have to help those worthless fucks too.
We should just offer a program where you're not allowed any fucking food stamps or welfare or other bullshit unless you agree to be sterilized.
or consensual medical experimentation
"consensual" sounds ok. at least if she's 18.
I read this just the other day and thought it applicable here.
What has happened in modern civilized man is that family sizes are no longer limited by the finite resources that the individual parents can provide. If a husband and wife have more children then they can feed, the state, which means the rest of the population, simply steps in and keeps the surplus children alive and healthy. There is, in fact, nothing to stop a couple with no material resources at all having and rearing as many children as the woman can physically bear. But the welfare state is a very unnatural thing. In nature, parents who have more children than they can support do not have many grandchildren, and their genes are not passed on to future generations.There is no need for altruistic restraint in the birth-rate, because there is no welfare state in nature. Any gene for overindulgance is promptly punished: the children containing that gene starve. Since we humans do not want to return to the old selfish ways where we let the children of too-large families starve to death, we have abolished the family as a unit of economic self-sufficiency, and substituted the state. But the privelege of guaranteed support for children should not be abused.
Contraception is sometimes attacked as 'unnatural'. So it is, very unnatural. The trouble is, so is the welfare state. I think most of us believe the welfare state is highly desirable. But, you cannot have an unnatural welfare state, unless you also have unnatural birth control, otherwise the end result will be misery even greater than that which obtains in nature.
- Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, p. 117
I bet that guy take shit on a daily basis because of all his 'hate speech'.
Is anyone going to read this?
Hank youll be happy as hell i did, no that i read the dribble above. Im all for the abolishment of welfare and government aid for clown car vaginas, people just get married and shit out kids because they think its what they are supposed to do, you can have a headache and get on welfare in the good ole USA.
Actually, Buttface, I couldn't care less if you read it or not as your opinion means nothing to me.
Even though I dislike Wanko overall, his opinion has some value, because he has a brain, unlike you.
actually it was sarcastic, i know you care about what i say as much as i care about what you say, however your quote was intelligent and composed enough i thought it a good read.
This is the second book of that guy that I've read. Good stuff. The God Delusion is a recent book of his that I read first. Very good. This one, The Selfish Gene wasn't as good for me. It has good parts and boring parts, but overall it's good. Difficult science written for the layman.
I'll have to check into it, heard of the book 'The Selfish Gene' before..but never read anything of him.
Look at the (low income) workaholics that get their panties in a bunch about welfare. Isn't the slogan of this site "Tasteless Humor for The Unemployed"?! Just saying lol.
There's nothing wrong with obtaining welfare for a period of time if it helps you getting back on your feet and being a "productive member of society" (again). Just don't do it for several years and abuse the system on purpose.
Yeah I read it. That's why I was saying the dude probably takes a lot of flack for saying stuff like that. I've heard nicer stuff called 'hate speech'.
Welfare should just be gone. You know what you're supposed to do when you are unemployed for a while? You find another job and dip into your savings. 'Savings' is that money you put away instead of spending every cent of income you had on beer, smokes, car payments, and that big screen tv.
If you give people a safety net, they do all kinds of stupid shit up on the tightrope.
well, dawkins does NOT make a cheap, vulgar polemic against welfare state here! he simply points out the obvious fact that the biological limitations can't be the only thing that limits how many children a woman gets and so we need "unnatural birth control" too. well that's common sense today at least in western societies as well as that of cause "guaranteed support for children should not be abused". so who is that "modern civilized man" dawkins talks about? the reproduction rates in the western welfare states aren't self-sustaining for a constant population even today. i think you guys confuse that humans are not biological beings but cultural beings in the first place when it comes to reproduction. so who is it who reproduces too much in today's world? it's people from cultures which hardly can be described as "modern" or "civilized" where the welfare state does NOT have replaced traditional family structures and values (yet)!!! it's uneducated and religious people both in the west and especially in the developing countries. the highest birthrates are in the arab world, africa and india where you can hardly speak of a developed welfare state! "finite resources" are these days not so strictly limited any more because of economic and social developments in hygiene, technology, agriculture and so on in the last 200 years (that's what he means with welfare). dawkins whole argument is that we DON'T live in a natural state any more and so we can't be against "contraceptions" simply because it was "unnatural"...
people with long comments suck
He said what he said. Wtf are you going on about Romeo? I presented a fair portion of that bit. You act like it's taken out of context. It isn't. He says the welfare state is a good thing, but shouldn't be abused. That's it.
probably i was angry about wanko. i hate it when people parrot that primitive neoliberal small government propaganda crap. so i felt i had to explain why vulgar socialdarwinism is bullshit. and it's you who came up with the genes...
It's ok. I hate Wanko, too.
HA HA you AmeriCUNTS are going to have a sparkly wiggle as a prez, no offence Morph.
cant be any worst than that whore you call queen
not my queen fucker
Sorry about the racism drizzle it was un called for. Its just funny to me because white Americans hate blacks.
Speak for yourself douchebag!
I am not american
Jealous, aren't you;)
america is in a world of shit already
Are you saying the world is shit?
England is ok
actually britains economy is pretty fucked up these day because the growth of the recent years was mainly based on the financial industry...
What happened to Hillary Clinton? Anyway i dont think its mather, because they probebly throw all votes in a cointainer without even read them , then the big guys choose who´s going to be the next spotlight bitch for 4years.
True. Plant in '08!
Hahaha. Plantshit's a crazy hermit in the woods of Sweden and he knows more about the American voting system than most of us Americans...actually...that's fucking depressing now that I think about it.
smoked a lot of crack today. just did. got in some serious troble with bad ass getto people, ill regret this when im sorry tomorrow
sorry.. i meant sober
sorry/sober, same shit
i probably wont be sober either
I have my fingers crossed that bad shit will happen to you.
theres no way ill be sober
why irish? i pray for you on a regular basis
eljizz is an fag who sits in shantys and has eats fat girls asshole. he liske when you give him some actions in the ass.
if i werent this drunk and lazy, id masterbate and cum on your stupid comment
If the republicans are smart they'll work it out so that the welfare checks go out on voting day or maybe arrange a sale at KFC for that night.
racist
'Free abortion day' at the local clinic might work too.
Of course maybe the dems could arrange it so that voting is delayed until a Sunday morning.
'Cause Democrats don't go to church?
Don't tell me you are a christian, Wanko? Hahaha
I'm like those rappers who sing about killing white people and beating cops and raping bitches then thank God and Jesus when they win an award.
thanks for letting every know your an ignorant fuck
Who are you talking to?
I hope it was me.
I posted it. So it must be me.
Heâs Christian...
Anyway, I want that PTA soccer mom to be president.
Wow, and I posted a few more too.
Damnit toolman haven't you learned that politics on mucho always ends with someone bashing someone else and neither one knows shit about what they are talking about
thats why its so fun to watch
yeah, i just pick the post that has the most comments, kick back and enjoy the impotentent venom...which would be a great name for a nowegian death metal band, by the way
Shut the fuck up, noob.
hahaha...tummy butterflies again!
rish you're actually pretty funny -most of the time, anyway...
Maybe those are for better light infiltration.
Obama's gonna win, that's it, game over.
Mind you McCain has a hot milf as a running mate....
McCain will be the next president, wait for it.
whats the world come to when the rest of us have to wait to see what happens in america and what effect it'll have on the all of us. fucking place...
Obama seems to be doing much better than McCain. Why does anyone pick McCain?
He's got a hot milf as a running mate
You'll see, Hank. Just over a month now.