Show me your gift certificate! Fire David Letterman! :winkwink:

Meet Joe The Plumber 2.0. Expect to see him a lot now.

Murderers, pedophiles, rapists, etc in US jails also earned their free health care.

Something is fucked up here...

Healthcare for Military is a completely different ballgame...

The monies spent for that purpose fall under the Cost of Defending the United States category which is probably the most justifiable tax dollar expenditure you can ever possibly come up with :P

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

"In October 1917 a Russian revolutionary named Vladimir Lenin, campaigning on the promise of “change,” led his Bolshevik party to victory. Lenin was convinced that redistribution of wealth would “draw heaven down to earth.” As such, Bolshevik bureaucrats in Moscow began printing money, seizing church assets, confiscating private property, nationalizing Russian banks, factories, and farms, and providing a system of socialized medicine.

Indeed, in 1918, Lenin introduced a cradle-to-grave health care system that utterly bankrupted the Soviet economy.

One would think that the utter failure and devastation that ensued in the wake of Lenin's failed socialist experiment would have precluded any other government from following the same foolhardy footprint.

Unfortunately it did not.

In October of 1949 Mao Tse-tung established the People's Republic of China and began a similar socialist experiment (The Great Leap Forward) devastating the Chinese economy and ultimately leading to the starvation and killings of some 50 million Chinese citizens.

The 1984 movie release of The Killing Fields forever memorialized the attempt on the part of Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge to create the ultimate “brotherhood of man.” The result was measured in economic devastation and millions of deaths. Dr. Jay Richards, social commentator and author of Money, Greed and God, notes an ultimate irony in the movie: Dith Pran escapes the Cambodian killing fields and finds rescue in a Thai Red Cross Station as the lyrics of John Lennon's “Imagine” waft soothingly through the air—Lenin's failed socialist experiment forever immortalized in song.

Says Richards: “Lennon's anthem describes a sort of godless kingdom of God. We're asked to imagine a future ‘brotherhood of man’ where ‘all the people’ live ‘life in peace’ ... a world with ‘no possessions’ where ‘all the people’ share ‘all the world.’”

“Never has an idea had such catastrophic consequences.”

Perhaps an even greater horror in the present is that those who are blithely unaware of history may well be resigned to reliving its horrors. Even now as China is rapidly moving away from socialist economics, Western economies seem bent on an opposite persuasion. Listen closely to the rhetoric of present political power brokers and you will hear both the legislation of Lenin and the lyrics of Lennon wafting through the air.

This brings me to the urgency of writing you today.

While false prophets cry peace and safety (even promising that the greatest of all revivals is right around the corner—spiritual and economic), and while political pundits cry “Imagine there's no Heaven” as they craft a godless utopia on earth, you and I have been faithfully exposing darkness to light.

Socialism in the century past led to economic and spiritual chaos. We know only in principle what will happen in our future as the specter of socialism continues to haunt our own generation."

http://www.aipnews.com/talk/forums/t...d=7390&posts=1

good point I never thought that:thumbsup