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Aug. 21st, 2009 11:57 amThis must be shared in its entirety:
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psa posted on Sadly, No!-
As a Canadian watching the health care, um, thingie taking place down in the land of the boisterous, the armed and the weird, I just can’t help but think that the most powerful nation on earth is out of its collective fucking mind. Seriously, anyone that gets up on their hind legs and says that ensuring decent health care for every man, woman and child is a Nazi policy deserves not a dressing down by Barney Frank, they deserve to be punted. It baffles me that there are that many truly misinformed people that are even capable of dressing themselves without first donning protective gear.
Earlier this summer I had some health issues, I called the doctor’s office, got an appointment, got on the bus and was seen to straight away. I took my prescription and paid a fraction of what freedom and liberty indicates you dupes let yourselves be gouged for and was on my way home. My bill, besides the prescription? Bus fare. You know what the biggest problem with Canada’s health care system is, frickin’ American companies poaching personnel. The greed based system pays better.
I don’t get it, I really don’t. How on earth can people be so angry and stupid that they make such barbaric asses out of themselves to protect a failed system that leaves one and a half times Canada’s entire population with no coverage? Wanna guess why foreigners think of Americans as dangerous buffoons? You actually have people on national TV defending the availability of assault rifles to borderline retards and allowing them to attend political rallies and mass gatherings. When did America get the idea they were in any way more civilized than Libya? That isn’t freedom, it isn’t liberty, it is flat out stupid. There’s no shortage of weapons up here but at least we have the good sense to recognize that there are reasonable limits to their ownership. Waving a flag and demanding a street sweeper will get you nothing but the disgusted looks you deserve.
For all of the brilliance and vigour that makes up the real heart of the American spirit at its best, it is the dumbest and ugliest part of the American experience piloting the ship of state. Up here, we take it for granted that the vast majority of folk we encounter in a day are not armed with killing sticks. We take it for granted that a medical problem won’t cost us our house, our family and our future. Single payer, socialized medicine is the only sensible choice in a decent and mature nation.
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psa posted on Sadly, No!-
As a Canadian watching the health care, um, thingie taking place down in the land of the boisterous, the armed and the weird, I just can’t help but think that the most powerful nation on earth is out of its collective fucking mind. Seriously, anyone that gets up on their hind legs and says that ensuring decent health care for every man, woman and child is a Nazi policy deserves not a dressing down by Barney Frank, they deserve to be punted. It baffles me that there are that many truly misinformed people that are even capable of dressing themselves without first donning protective gear.
Earlier this summer I had some health issues, I called the doctor’s office, got an appointment, got on the bus and was seen to straight away. I took my prescription and paid a fraction of what freedom and liberty indicates you dupes let yourselves be gouged for and was on my way home. My bill, besides the prescription? Bus fare. You know what the biggest problem with Canada’s health care system is, frickin’ American companies poaching personnel. The greed based system pays better.
I don’t get it, I really don’t. How on earth can people be so angry and stupid that they make such barbaric asses out of themselves to protect a failed system that leaves one and a half times Canada’s entire population with no coverage? Wanna guess why foreigners think of Americans as dangerous buffoons? You actually have people on national TV defending the availability of assault rifles to borderline retards and allowing them to attend political rallies and mass gatherings. When did America get the idea they were in any way more civilized than Libya? That isn’t freedom, it isn’t liberty, it is flat out stupid. There’s no shortage of weapons up here but at least we have the good sense to recognize that there are reasonable limits to their ownership. Waving a flag and demanding a street sweeper will get you nothing but the disgusted looks you deserve.
For all of the brilliance and vigour that makes up the real heart of the American spirit at its best, it is the dumbest and ugliest part of the American experience piloting the ship of state. Up here, we take it for granted that the vast majority of folk we encounter in a day are not armed with killing sticks. We take it for granted that a medical problem won’t cost us our house, our family and our future. Single payer, socialized medicine is the only sensible choice in a decent and mature nation.
