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To: gg cox who wrote (11604)	11/16/2006 2:28:33 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 218584

GG, you are right that Nanny State forces us to pay them then they, after clipping the ticket [taking a dirty great bite out of it] pass it on to state-owned and run hospitals and welfare systems, who take their big bite out of the money [they do have to hire expensive managers, consultants, customer contact people - "customer" is such a hilarious word when used by authoritarians, but that truly is the word they use in regard to their serfs]. After everyone in the government chain has looked after themselves in the manner to which they have become accustomed, they hassle my friend who fell over in his kitchen and bent his neck against the hot water cupboard, and is now an incomplete tetraplegic. We should all have to wear crash helmets and neck protection in our daily lives to keep such costs down [if we follow the Nanny State ideology]. We will look like armadillos. Since our lives pretty much involve feeding the nanny-state beast these days, that's an appropriate shape. Actually, sheep are a better design. They have thick wool around their necks and wool acts as a great shock absorber and sheep can be fleeced. We must look like sheep to the government people and we certainly act like them, voting for more of being fleeced every election, herded like mindless beasts. In my health care "system", people would look after themselves. Or their families, or friends, or charities, or previous employers, or others, might help them. They could cash up the value of their citizenship and use. That of course would mean we own our citizenships personally instead of in collectivist serfdom. My friend could go and live in Fiji, where it's warm, [when you can't move much, you get cold in NZ], and use the sale of his citizenship to pay for a bunch of helpers. I like the USA system. If you bash your melon in, then you'd better have planned for such an event. If you want to ride around with the wind in your hair and enjoy an unencumbered life, that's your own business. Except that it's not. I'm sure the USA has all sorts of victimless crimes which are just so bossy people can tell other people what they are allowed to do, which is the raison d'etre of bossy people. Without ordering people around, they wouldn't know what to do with themselves. They are needy, dependent people who have to have serfs to give them a sense of importance. Most people want to be told what to do, and like having bosses, since it's hard-wired into their DNA after eons of chimpoid social context and growing up with Mum and Dad, school and others ordering them around. It's Stockholm Syndrome in a "normal" context. Mqurice