From: parr@acs.ucalgary.ca (Charles Parr)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Drug testing and welfare
Date: 31 Jul 92 14:23:56 GMT
Organization: Fascists-R-us

In article <1992Jul31.044157.14824@cs.yale.edu> Someone blithers frantically:
>In article <1992Jul30.174630.1@husky1.stmarys.ca> And someone
else suffers incontinence in reply:
>>	If you are stupid enough to get yourself hooked ( and apparently
>>someone like you is that stupid), I'm not wild about the idea of forking over
>>tax dollars to cure you. State run medical facilities are a good idea, I think.
>>HOwever using them for a FUCKSTAIN (tm) whose got lung cancer because he smoked
>>three packs a day for his whole fucking life...is an unwise expense
>>if you ask me.

>I'm sure it's an unwise expense to accept someone into a state run medical
>facility because they have heart disease because they are overweight.  After
>all, it's their own damn fault.
>Or someone who got hit by a car.  Why should I pay money to repair some
>FUCKSTAIN (tm) who would have been perfectly safe if he had locked himself
>in his house and never come out.
>Where are you going to draw the line?  Who should draw said line?

I get to draw it. Know why? Because all the rest of the world is stupid,
and malignantly stupid at that. So *I* will draw the line, and
all of you will either toe it or be taken out and shot, with
the rest of the refuse....

Look, you dumb bastards, unless you are willing to go buy an
island somewhere, and never see another human again, you are
going to have to realize that you are *both* right (and the
other guy is wrong, I know I know...Someone shoot Sorenson
please?)...I don't have the right to abuse living hell out of my
body, and then expect someone else to pay for it, but the 
same brobdinagian system which (theoretically) watches out
for the welfare of terminal losers will be there to catch you
if *you* (worthy person that you are) fall like a star from
the heavens. Maybe you resent this, think of it as namby pamby
mothering from a paternalistic-fascist-chocolate-sprinkled-
fatherland-complex, but I felt that way too.

Then my job disappeared over night, the employer having
fled back to fucking Korea with all *my* money...And that
same inefficent Juggernaut ground out some dough, enough
to pay my rent and get me some basic food, and I got a job
(washing dishes, in fact), and then a better job once I was
eating...

It's all part of the same idea: that people who live together
in a society should help each other out...If you ask me,
it should be done on a local level, rather than a national
one, and I'd love to see the government kicked out of the
social welfare business: But I needed help once, and I got 
it. I want something around to help the next (real) victim
of circumstances-beyond-control.

I pay fucking taxes, here in the Rodina, people...A bloody bunch
of taxes, if you ask me. And I bitch about it also, because it
ain't efficient, and too many con artists are living fat and
free on my dough...But when bozos start talking this "live free
and starve proud" bullshit, I start getting *angry*. 

Charles Parr
Angry Young Man
-- 
Within the span of the last few weeks I have heard elements of
separate threads which, in that they have been conjoined in time,
struck together to form a new chord within my hollow and echoing
gourd. --Unknown net.person