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Originally Posted by bwana
I work in a doctor's office and it's AMAZING how people want free stuff. They come in and -they want samples of anything they can get. They buy two months of insurance and want all their problems fixed and then they drop it. Everyone thinks they can wheedle more out of the system than they put in. And the whole attitude of entitlement is rampant. The democratic solution to force everyone to have health insurance will go a long way to stop everyone gaming the system.
Maybe the government should also pay for universal reading without DRM. Think of it-if you were taxed and forced to have 'literacy insurance' then everyone would make sure they could read. Instead of wanting to go out on the weekend and have a good time, we would all be torrenting books so we could get our taxes worth. The government could pay for all this spending not just by raising taxes but by issuing debt to all newborns. People would not have birth certificates but license agreements. They would have restrictions on how they could use their bodies which they dont actually 'own'. People would have to live healthy lives or else they might find their 'living privileges' restricted. And they would have their whole life to pay off the debt they are born in to. Ultimately, everything would be free since you cannot own anything.
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Please! Don't feed the politicians *any* ideas! If you do, the next thing you know, they'll be dusting off Swift's idea of eating Irish babies for breakfast!
Derek