Last Friday, Chris Rock was interviewed on Bill Maher's show Real Time, and the subject of health care reform came up.
When Maher asked if he saw health care reform the prism of race and as a civil rights issue, Rock said no. He sees health reform as a “people rights issue.” Rock also recounted his family’s experience with the health care system
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Which actually makes it even WORSE, because we arguably got REWARDED for doing THE WRONG THINGS.
It'd be like, say, your mom telling you to wear your helmet when you go bike riding, and then, when you don't, the resultant bump on your head results in doctors detecting a brain tumor that would have killed you otherwise.
If you, as a kid, understood what had just happened, it would pretty much guarantee that you did the opposite of what your mom told you for the rest of your life.
The only reason the UK lost the war was that it had a string of incompetent generals and prove unable to protect its allies.
Well, THAT, plus the fact that India was just SITTING there, waiting to be plundered.
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Well, that's not exactly the way the conquest of India happened.
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That's kind of the point, not that no one else was fighting. Heck, even the British got steamrolled. Your sarcasm is misplaced.
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In fact you chaps didn't even declare War on Hitler's Germany then. Germany decalred war on you.
Just giving historical context. :)
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Those who would work hard for nothing have at least their pride and the joy of sneering at the "entitlement class". We all want to have someone to deride, someone to feel superior to, so we make up stories about who is entitled and who is just lazy and who is better than whom. No one wants to acknowledge that those on the dole would rather be working or that they may need to be on the dole themselves some time. Again, American culture provides for American Exceptionalism so, it's never OUR fault when we loose a job, need food stamps, or Medicare. We blame other people who need those things as being lazy and entitled but when it's us with the hand out, that's acceptable.
In the end, Democracy ensures the people get the society they deserve.
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