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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch
This is a valid response, but I don't really agree with it.
Do you look at someone who weighs 500 pounds and rides on a little golf cart and say "there but for the grace of God..."? I don't. I also don't look at that person and think, "Well, thru Medicare I'm paying for his golf cart, because he's too fat to walk. But it's about the same as if he got hit by a car walking across the street."
You already live in a society that does otherwise -- it's how many of our prisons are filled. Also the basis of most tort law.
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Initially,watching one of those TV ads promising, "Get a free scooter through Medicare," I feel a welling disgust, and a desire to see the operators of these parasitic companies indicted.
Then I think about TARP, and everything I've read about Goldman and -- frankly, almost the entire finance industry, and shrug. How does one point the finger at some scumbag gaming Medicare in a time as corrupt as ours?
Good for you scooter salesman. Get yours. Get out. And pray to fucking God whatever you squirrel away doesn't need to be driven in barrels to the market to buy a loaf of bread, like Weimar Germany, or Zimbabwe, by 2016. Bills are light one at a time. Stacks of them tall as dwarves can get awfully heavy.
