Bill Whittle's "Web of Trust" essay. Crappy formatting - good ideas.Jccarlton wrote: It's going to be bigger than pocketbooks:
http://nypost.com/2013/11/12/death-by-o ... -patients/
It's going to be having to make serious life choices that you wouldn't have had to make because of Obamacare. It's going to be getting used to a lower standard of care and even a lower standard of living. Worst, this has broken the web of trust that makes everything work.
Personally, I'm rather fond of civilization... and distrust those who would tear it down what we have now to replace it with 'something better' without having some sort of proof that you can transition to 'better' without smashing 'good enough for now'.So when we talk about the entire idea of civilization, a simple glance at history shows we are not talking about race at all. At various times in history the leading civilization has been black, yellow, brown, or white, and the barbarians lined up to tear down those civilizations have been of every color as well. So to make claim that saying one culture is civilized while another is not is somehow racist is patently ridiculous on it's face.
Anyone who claims otherwise is trying to shut down the argument because they know they cannot win it on facts and logic - which to some of these people are also racist. But facts and logic don't give a darn what they think - facts and logic exist whether they like it or not. So do I, and I don't give a darn what such people say, either. This intimidation tactic has silenced benign, well-meaning people for too long. How would a real Nazi respond to being called a racist? Hitler, dude, you're like a total racist! That's a compliment to goose-stepping sons of bitches. That's a badge of pride for them. Only decent people are deterred by such rhetoric - and that is the entire objective. It works. But not here. Not anymore.
It's not the hardware, it's the software. It's not race, it's culture.
That's what I believe.
There is a full-court effort to tear down civilization these days, to make ridiculous even the very idea of civilization, and that is a fight worth rising to. Because the unseen rhizomes of civilization - the impenetrably vast and intricate connections that exist out of our view, beneath the surface of our blinkered daily existence - produce so much that is good and necessary and completely taken for granted that to lose it would be to lose what makes us fully human.
And I don't want that to happen. Do you?
Obamacare... 'You had to pass it to find out what was in it' according to Pelosi. Well, we've seen what's in it - can we dump the rotting mess now and hose things off, and try to get back to the way things were which weren't perfect but a hell of a lot better than we're going to be getting with the 'better' of Obamacare? I'll gladly give up my pregnancy and birth control pill coverage...