On Nov 11, 2009, at 4:28 PM, raunchydog wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradh...@...> wrote: > > > > > > On Nov 11, 2009, at 12:45 PM, Mike Dixon wrote: > > > > > Um Vaj, they don't have to go to the VA. But it's there if they don't > > > have any other insurance. What did they do to deserve being taken care of > > > the rest of their lives? They risked theirs so we could live ours, but > > > you want any schlepp to have the same benefit without any sacrifice. > > > Offering one's life and limbs in defense of the nation deserves something > > > a little more than the average person who doesn't. > > > > > > So you do support socialized medicine. > > > > Does Mike support socialized roads, police and fire departments, public > schools as well as VA hospitals? Thom Hartman talks about the commons, > infrastructure that benefits everyone, which should include hospitals and > health care, of course. Glenn Beck uses the word "socialism" as a pejorative > to heighten fears of an evil overarching government ravenous for power and > total control of our lives. Baloney. Vaj, is taking a poke at Mike's > conservative values and on this point, and probably the only point, Vaj and I > can agree.
Yeah, it is a key idea in Hartman's book Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class, a good read. And I doubt it's the only thing we agree on.
