From: cjackson@adobe.com (Curtis Jackson)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Nationalized Lawyers  was Re: Ignore what it was
Date: 26 Jan 93 03:59:26 GMT
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View

In article <1993Jan25.211216.5852@ncsu.edu> jrwaters@eos.ncsu.edu (JACK ROGERS WATERS) writes:
}>Our postal service is the envy of most countries.  91% (?) of first class
}>letters are delivered by the following day, even from Cornwall to the 
}>Highlands of Scotland.  Posting abroad is a joke because other countries
}>postal services are so bad...

Wow! That's sort of like saying: "91% of first class letters are delivered
by the following day, even from southern California to northern
California." Actually, I don't think that is fair since the distance
from southern to northern California is greater.

"The difference between Brits and Americans is that Americans think 200
years is a long time, and Brits think 200 miles is a long distance."

There are several reasons we do not have nationalized health care in
the U.S.:

1) We individually elect legislators who have proven that they can screw
us in the wallet, rather than allowing half our legislators to hold office
just because their father had a dick that worked (House of Lords). Thus,
our legislators have tons of PAC (Political Action Committee) money to
earn from the hospital and AMA lobbies, and nothing to earn directly from
a nationalized health care system. In other countries this would be known
as "doing business", or perhaps "bribery". It works, as you can see.

2) If there were a nationalized health system, our esteemed AMA members
might have to pass some minimal universal competency exam. We would then
have exposed in bold relief the fact that even clumsy uncaring C-minus-
average money-grubbing pedophiles can get a license under our current
system. So to prevent this they lobby Congress (see "bribery" under
(1) above).

3) Don't forget who paid for your defense for the last half-century,
my British "even the Fauklands gave us a serious run for our money"
friend. If it hadn't been for the massive percentage of our tax
dollars that went to our defense industry, you'd be having black
bread and rotting cabbage for dinner and professing to like it.

4) The most important reason, however, is that America is the Land of
Milk and Honey, the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. This is
the place where the 49ers starv^H^H^H^H^Hstruck it rich. This is the
country of the [fictitious] Horatio Alger, who inspired hundreds of
thousands of young boys with the message that anyone, and I mean anyone,
can work hard and become president, or a tycoon, or both. And thus,
given this obvious over-abundance of opportunity for everyone [who
happens to be white male and straight], if you cannot make enough money
to afford health care or health insurance, then it is Your Damned Fault.
The "reasoning" in America is "Fuck the poor; they are lazy." We want
our presidents to come from the humblest roots, as long as they didn't
(god forbid) *stay* poor.

Obmoto: I got to ride a bike today for the second time in a *month*.
And it is supposed to be clear again tomorrow! YES!
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