The Black Republican

Okay, the next time I run into her shopping for groceries at the corner market I'll let her know how you feel.

Others are proposing universal health care too. John Edwards has a plan, and Bill Buckley has an opinion on it.

Talk for yourself. We in the main land [ed: ??] really needs it. It kind of a life, suffering and death issue for the most of us who can [sic] afford the present system.

Ralph, don't you dare come in here talking like an ignorant fool making claims like that without explaining yourself. Are you, in fact, DYING? If so, from what disease or malady that in some way requires me to pay for your treatment that you could not have paid for yourself if you'd taken care of it yourself? Most of all, what makes you think that Hillarycare would have actually treated you better, when every socialist health initiative in history has KILLED more people than it treated?

The fact is, sir, we ARE speaking for ourselves, and we're damn sick and tired of taking care of oafs like you, too stupid to understand the very basics of jurisprudence, economics, and personal responsibility.

I cannot imagine any scenario that you might pose that wouldn't rate one or more of the following responses from me:

1) You should have taken care of it yourself.

2) Your family should have helped you.

3) Your church could have helped you.

4) MY church could have helped you.

5) Sucks to be you.

(Not listed - because I don't believe in it, but still better than a federal system - is "the state where you live could have promoted a better system through legislation")

There is such a thing as the United States Constitution, created on the principle of limited powers, and no where in there is the federal government asked, permitted, or required to do anything about your health care.

I know, I sound like a cold-hearted son of a bitch to you, but when and if I get cancer or heart disease or AIDS, the LAST thing you'll ever hear pass from my lips is, "Why, oh why, didn't the federal government steal Ralph's money from him so he can be miserable too while I'm dying?"