Wedding 2.
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Here I am. Waiting to celebrate my second wedding. Or. Uh. I guess. Waiting
to celebrate my wedding for the second time. I guess. That makes more sense.
I'm...
16 years ago
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what do you mean i can't just walk into a salami diner and KILL everybody?!!
ooooo... I'm excited for the next one.
YES! i've finally met someone who doesn't think health care is a right (or education, housing, even food for that matter). thank you for this post.
also, consider this: when the US makes policy decisions, a year of human life is worth $100,000 (which matches with your figure when you consider that the average american has about 40 years of life remaining). In England, a year of human life is only worth $70,000. Therefore, Americans are worth more as people than the British. :)
everything has a cost in life - even those rights we consider unalienable (life, liberty, property) are only so because somebody had to fight for them hundreds of years ago when they weren't. Hundreds of years from now, this modern opium of rights/welfare talk will be viewed as exceptional in human history - THE definitive mark on our era.
Trees, no one will be around hundreds of years from now. We'll all be dead from the upswing in maniacal salami diner murderers.
Jordan, can you make a post talking about what one can do to accomplish things like provide healthcare, reduce poverty, etc... through avenues other than the federal government?
Redistribution, by definition, has to occur from the top down. Redistribution can't occur locally. That can't be sustained for long before being swallowed up, no matter how much money is fueling the effort. States will just shuffle around trying to do their own thing, most likely failing horribly and creating a gross sense of disunity throughout the country. Why not start with the federal government? What else has the ability to step on enough toes to get something done? What else has the authority to define what it means to have a right to life, liberty and property?
Post-Nixon, we're all terrified of the federal government. No one is holding her breath hoping it won't let us down -- we just assume it will. We assume things will never change, and in some ways that's a very safe thing to do. If you invest yourself in so much hope only to be let down in the end, it feels catastrophic. Problem is, life sucks balls that much more if we don't allow ourselves to hope for change. Nothing will *ever* get better.
...I'd rather not resign myself to the idea of a failed federal government.
-Em
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