More conservatives deluded that bad things never happen to good people.

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Of course, they use this argument against any kind of social safety net. Like living wages or unemployment or welfare. If somebody loses their job, it's because they did something to deserve it. If you aren't upper-middle-class or rich, it's because you're a loser who did something to deserve it.

You see, the problem comes down to liberals wanting to take money from the "good people" to pay for the "bad people" and deny the "good people" health care for themselves. So, we need to go back to a time when nobody saw doctors (and grandma just kicked the bucket at 62 or so, thus relieving anyone of having to make those "end of life" choices.) And we also need to "push" people to stop getting sick or at least push them to become multimillionaires so they can afford to pay for their own health care if the insurance companies decide not to cover them. How this "push" is to be accomplished is anybody's guess, but I would suppose it has something to do with the second amendment. They are quite sure that the government is going to ration health care, something they obviously believe is a good idea but which should be left up to ... them, I guess.

Evidently, these people all believe that if you get sick you either did something to deserve it, in which case you also deserve to go bankrupt even if you have insurance -- or, if you are a "good" person, perhaps you can be taken care of by charities, at least until they "push" you out. On their planet, there are no insurance companies denying care to people, no decent hard working Americans losing everything they have to a health crisis, nobody tied to a job they hate because they won't be able to get insurance if they leave, no CEOs making sickening profits while people suffer, no health care inflation making it impossible for businesses to compete. On their planet it cannot happen to them.

Here's a "great American" being cheered on for saying he needs nothin' from nobody and a slavering mob, including a US Congressman, cheering him on:

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/boy-toy-credo-by-digby-i-heard-ashton.html

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1. The Lesson of the beehive

"The Bee Hive is an emblem of industry, and recommends the practice of that virtue to all created beings, from the highest seraph in heaven to the lowest reptile in the dust. It teaches us that we come into the world rational and intelligent beings, so we should ever be industrious ones; never sitting down content while our fellow creatures around us are in want, especially when it is in our power to relieve them without inconvenience to ourselves.

When we take a survey of nature, we view man in his infancy, more helpless and indigent that the brute creation. He lies languishing for day, months, and years, totally incapable of providing sustenance for himself, or guarding against the attack of wild beats of the fields, or sheltering himself from the inclemency's of the weather. It might have pleased the great Creator of heaven and earth to have made man independent of all other beings, but as dependence is one of the strongest bonds of society, mankind were made dependent on each other for protection and security, as they thereby enjoy better opportunities of fulfilling the duties of reciprocal love and friendship. Thus was man formed for social and active life, the noblest part of the work of God, and he that will so demean himself as not to be endeavoring to add to the common stock of knowledge and understanding, may be deemed a drone in the hive of nature, a useless member of society, and unworthy of our protection as Masons."

-Masonic Monitor


The most dangerous myth in the American dream, is the belief that each one of us should struggle through life as individials; that joining together to achieve a common goal is sign of weakness.

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2. But if bad things happen to someone they thought good ...

that's just proof that that someone was evil. ;-)