Posted on 11/14/2007 3:38:48 PM PST by Leisler
Pick your poison, the Republcrats vill helpz youse be un better citizen, Ya?
Accused of rationing limited amounts of substandard health care, the government response is predictable and Orwellian: tell the people they’re responsible for their poor health and further limit personal freedom. Never admit that there’s only so much health care available, its substandard, or that its inefficiencies and delays are killing people. Long live Big Brother.
The more control they are given, the more they will seek.
“The government has a duty to look after the health of everyone....”
The error of that sentiment resolves itself to tyrannous “solutions”.
bump & a health nazi/nanny state ping
These control freaks would drive teetotalers to drinking.
How about shutting down the gay bathhouses, rousting folks out of the “special” bushes in the “special” parks, and prosecuting prostitution crimes?
Just a thought.
Who’s going to do it? How many cities, towns are there in the US? Times the number in each town of these places. Times 24/7/365 ? The the staff, judges, jail I would imagine.
Naturally there will be requirements for funding.
Or we can just go after the easy people, you for instance. I am sure some standard can be devised such that you will fail, or a family member.
LaGuardia's Big Race - 1934
Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia (Center) Winning The "Fat Men's Race" Against City Officials.
Been pinged yet? ;^)
“But the government has a duty to look after the health of everyone and sometimes that means guiding or restricting our choices.”
Bull...Shit..
NO-it DOESN’T.
Another of the greatest lies ever foisted on the public.
Your response seems slightly off-topic, or at least a broadening of the topic; however:
The key term in the error that the UK official has is to “look after” us, as in determining how to regulate our lives so that the government, not ourselves as individuals are responsible for INSURING we do not have a health issue and responsible for fixing it when we do - like human, infantile, ignorant, little children.
The people who go to a “gay bath house” take their own risks as does anyone who has unprotected sex with anonymous or casual partners - they are big people who make their own mistakes. It is a health issue only for those who make those choices. People who know that, the general public, who want to avoid the risks in those venues do so. The “public” is not living with its head in the ground. It might be stupid - at least that portion that take those risks, but those who don’t do not require any government assistance to avoid them.
Having sexual relations of any sort in a “public place” has been a morally frowned upon and sanctioned legally as a low-level crime of “public indecency” in most societies for a very long time. While current faddish politically correctness has weakened that sanction in some venues, it is generally not, now or in the past, been considered, generally, as a health issue.
“Who’s going to do it?” I don’t know. Public health? Who’s policing the smokers and the overeaters and such? I don’t know how your system works. It seems if overeating can be outlawed, so can promiscuous sex.
“Naturally, there would be requirements for funding.” Yes. Just like the requirements you have for funding the current socialist health system. At the end of the day, you will save money. Because all those STDs are very expensive to treat.
“Or we can just go after the easy people, you, for instance.” No doubt you can. Once you have socialized medicine, you can justify going after anybody for anything. I am having pork for dinner tonight. Also, I stayed up too late last night. Bad for my health, no?
No elevators, I presume?
“The people who go to a gay bath house take their own risks as does anyone who has unprotected sex with anonymous or casual partners - they are big people who make their own mistakes. It is a health issue only for those who make those choices.”
Of course they take their own risks. However, in a socialized system, we all end up paying for those risks.
“Of course they take their own risks. However, in a socialized system, we all end up paying for those risks.”
Do live in the U.K.???? I don’t.
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Late night Nanny State PING...........
This thinking is from the U.K. but it is alive and well in our country too. I don't need a "steward" thank you, I just need for nanny government to stay out of my life.
They’re really pushing it, ain’t they?
Coming soon to a gulag near you, right here in the good ‘ol US(S)A(R).
And has Lord John Krebs declared the Final Solution yet?
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