For such a supposedly great and powerful country we should have at the very least universal health care for everyone.
I disagree with this though.
Why???? If not for the wealthy (don't need it anyhow), at least for the mid to low end of the socio-economic scale... then everyone would be able to afford to see a doctor/get medical attention.
We've had it in Oz for donkey's years now... meaning a vagrant who needed anti-biotics could rock up to a hospital and be seen/get treatment... none of that 'got insurance' first.... 'piss off' if you haven't.
Trouble was, because of the 'so-called' free trade agreement, there were arseholes in your country trying to get our arseholes to abolish it. Hopefully, the new government will tell 'em to piss off... Oz is a sovereign state and should not have to kow tow to foreign corporate greed/government interference in our domestic affairs.
Besides, being that things have taken a horrid turn for the worst, mrs starkers would be up shit creek in a barbed wire canoe and crowbar for a paddle... in dire straits if we didn't have public hospitals and universal health care.... all I can say is thank God we don't live in America.
There sure as heck is something we can do. FIRE EM ALL! Revolt! peacefully...
Funny thing this comes up...think it was Nostrodamus who predicted revolution in the Land of the Eagle. Trouble is, it won't be peaceful... too many guns on both sides of the fence for there not to be wholesale bloodshed.
Live by the sword, die by the sword... but there's no way a die-hard who 'lives, shits and breathes the right to bear arms/kill or be killed mentality is gonna accept that the attitude is fundamentally flawed... at best perverted, corrupt and evil. The families of the Omaha mall victims wouldn't need any convincing... nor the families of the victims of that idiot who went on a shooting spree at a Colorado church because security asked him to leave.
Nobody will ever convince me that the right to bear arms concept has one iota of sense, not when 'those who have a bad hair day/can just crack' will go on a shooting rampage and kill/maim dozens of innocent people. It might be for different reasons, but the gun play on US and Iraqi streets is not a whole lot different... both situations are insane because people are needlessly dying... and that sickens me to my stomach.
The best thing the American people can do for themselves (and the world) is get rid of satan's butt-plugs at the next election... refuse to vote for any of them and watch the idiots self-implode in a state of panic and confusion.
Without executive orders, the military cannot legally declare war/invade anyone... meaning the pigeons wouldn't then feel the need to come home to roost, as someone once put it, and everyone could stay home and mind their own business... true peace at long last.
I didn't think I was going to weigh in on this thread at any point, and I won't much, but I do have to say that I think the two above posts by Sir Starkers, profoundly OT as they are, make a whole heck of a lot of sense.
