Free to Die

In the past, conservatives accepted the need for a government-provided safety net on humanitarian grounds. Don't take it from me, take it from Friedrich Hayek, the conservative intellectual hero, who specifically declared in "The Road to Serfdom" his support for "a comprehensive system of social insurance" to protect citizens against "the common hazards of life," and singled out health in particular.

Given the agreed-upon desirability of protecting citizens against the worst, the question then became one of costs and benefits - and health care was one of those areas where even conservatives used to be willing to accept government intervention in the name of compassion, given the clear evidence that covering the uninsured would not, in fact, cost very much money. As many observers have pointed out, the Obama health care plan was largely based on past Republican plans, and is virtually identical to Mitt Romney's health reform in Massachusetts.

Now, however, compassion is out of fashion - indeed, lack of compassion has become a matter of principle, at least among the G.O.P.'s base.

ricky wrote:I think Krugman is wrong on this one....its not lack of compassion its actually More compassion.

What upsets the gimme gimme gimme Entitlement crowd is now they will have to do something in exchange for the help.

They will have to better thier lives, get serious about speaking English (no more Ebonics) getting a job (no more 99 weeks of sittng around), stop drinking doing drugs (health care)

Think of it as Tough Love

ricky wrote:you are so funny... dont you think i've been through a lot too?

Let me tell you the last 2 months i've been talking almost daily to a dj in so cal, he was moving to NY and had a syndication deal to do a live 3 hr a night show from 10pm -1am, and needed someone to book his guests and do prep work for the show.

The pay $1500 a month....and mind you this is not 40hr a week job, you are litterally working 7 days a week lining up people..its a lot of work.

So i was supposed to meet him on monday and he calls and said his backers dont have the money to hire anyone so they will get him some interns....

Dissapointed you bet....will I still work for him....i just might to keep a recent job at the top of the resume, but only 1-2 days a week....

So yes Jobs are always available if you want to work for free.....or in exchange for collecting UI or welfare......seems like a poor trade off...but a lot better then beatching about the tea party.

Oh the show starts Monday he 26th...10 days

gettheminNOVEMBER wrote:

ricky wrote:you are so funny... dont you think i've been through a lot too?

Let me tell you the last 2 months i've been talking almost daily to a dj in so cal, he was moving to NY and had a syndication deal to do a live 3 hr a night show from 10pm -1am, and needed someone to book his guests and do prep work for the show.

The pay $1500 a month....and mind you this is not 40hr a week job, you are litterally working 7 days a week lining up people..its a lot of work.

So i was supposed to meet him on monday and he calls and said his backers dont have the money to hire anyone so they will get him some interns....

Dissapointed you bet....will I still work for him....i just might to keep a recent job at the top of the resume, but only 1-2 days a week....

So yes Jobs are always available if you want to work for free.....or in exchange for collecting UI or welfare......seems like a poor trade off...but a lot better then beatching about the tea party.

Oh the show starts Monday he 26th...10 days

lendmeflight2 wrote:Thank rick. I come from a long line of trailer trash and, trust me, we aren't all illiterate, "I don't got ID", kind of people. I went through college, state school of course, and I couldn't have done that without government "handouts".

Plus some of us just don't got ID, so what?

ricky wrote:I think Krugman is wrong on this one....its not lack of compassion its actually More compassion.

What upsets the gimme gimme gimme Entitlement crowd is now they will have to do something in exchange for the help.

They will have to better thier lives, get serious about speaking English (no more Ebonics) getting a job (no more 99 weeks of sittng around), stop drinking doing drugs (health care)

Think of it as Tough Love

ranbrow123 wrote:

ricky wrote:I think Krugman is wrong on this one....its not lack of compassion its actually More compassion.

What upsets the gimme gimme gimme Entitlement crowd is now they will have to do something in exchange for the help.

They will have to better thier lives, get serious about speaking English (no more Ebonics) getting a job (no more 99 weeks of sittng around), stop drinking doing drugs (health care)

Think of it as Tough Love

Stop posting.

ricky wrote:you are so funny... dont you think i've been through a lot too?

Let me tell you the last 2 months i've been talking almost daily to a dj in so cal, he was moving to NY and had a syndication deal to do a live 3 hr a night show from 10pm -1am, and needed someone to book his guests and do prep work for the show.

The pay $1500 a month....and mind you this is not 40hr a week job, you are litterally working 7 days a week lining up people..its a lot of work.

So i was supposed to meet him on monday and he calls and said his backers dont have the money to hire anyone so they will get him some interns....

Dissapointed you bet....will I still work for him....i just might to keep a recent job at the top of the resume, but only 1-2 days a week....

So yes Jobs are always available if you want to work for free.....or in exchange for collecting UI or welfare......seems like a poor trade off...but a lot better then beatching about the tea party.

Oh the show starts Monday he 26th...10 days

X wrote:Nuttin I'd like to answer you question but I'm not sure you are onboard and sea sick as the rest of us are.

What the hell is going on here? Your guestion, unusual as it is.

Anyone?

stillnutty wrote:

X wrote:Nuttin I'd like to answer you question but I'm not sure you are onboard and sea sick as the rest of us are.

What the hell is going on here? Your guestion, unusual as it is.

Anyone?

My Brother.

ricky wrote:tiya:

Blogging, tweeting, talking points are short fast statements, not a college dissertaion.

That is the enviroment we are in today. Make your point quickly. Give us the facts and let us research it and discuss.

The truth is, the show Cops is a very real presentation of poor America. Trailer trash, bros from the ghetto "i aint got no ID" Prisoners in jail, all have a common thread, the lack of basic English skills, and failure of the public school system to show some tough love.

And that is tens of millions of Americans, It a crime to let people be so stupid. There is not much hope for them anymore, and its Damn Expensive too.

broketrucker wrote:

ricky wrote:tiya:

Blogging, tweeting, talking points are short fast statements, not a college dissertaion.

That is the enviroment we are in today. Make your point quickly. Give us the facts and let us research it and discuss.

The truth is, the show Cops is a very real presentation of poor America. Trailer trash, bros from the ghetto "i aint got no ID" Prisoners in jail, all have a common thread, the lack of basic English skills, and failure of the public school system to show some tough love.

And that is tens of millions of Americans, It a crime to let people be so stupid. There is not much hope for them anymore, and its Damn Expensive too.

Why aren't you banned?

DesperateInRI wrote:

broketrucker wrote:

ricky wrote:tiya:

Blogging, tweeting, talking points are short fast statements, not a college dissertaion.

That is the enviroment we are in today. Make your point quickly. Give us the facts and let us research it and discuss.

The truth is, the show Cops is a very real presentation of poor America. Trailer trash, bros from the ghetto "i aint got no ID" Prisoners in jail, all have a common thread, the lack of basic English skills, and failure of the public school system to show some tough love.

And that is tens of millions of Americans, It a crime to let people be so stupid. There is not much hope for them anymore, and its Damn Expensive too.

Why aren't you banned?

He is!