From: Brent on
On 2010-01-24, Chris Malcolm <cam(a)holyrood.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> In rec.photo.digital Brent <tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Government has killed more people than anything else in human history.
>> Government is fundamentally a criminal enterprise. Government and a
>> criminal gang with sufficent power are for all purposes the same thing.
>
> There are still some countries with no effective government at all you
> could go to.

Where various criminal gangs battle to be the government. One will come
out on top become the government the other criminal gangs around the
world recognize.


From: Ray Fischer on
rendition <ren(a)stimpy.org> wrote:
>Ray Fischer wrote:
>> tony cooper <tony_cooper213(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>> In the UK they would if they were fit enough for the operation and it
>>>>>>>> would improve their life. That said AFAIK all patients get screened for
>>>>>>>> operations as no one wants to do pointless operations. However these
>>>>>>>> decisions are taken on medical grounds.
>>>>>>> That's rationing of the pie. The customer doesn't decide, the government
>>>>>>> employee does.
>>>>>> Not at all the medical staff decide on MEDICAL grounds.
>>> If you have a bum knee, some doctor in the NHS will decide if you will
>>> get a replacement joint or not.
>>
>> And in the US it's the insurance company that decides.
>
>Or the emergency room.

Wrong again, rightard idiot.

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From: Ray Fischer on
Brent <tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>On 2010-01-23, Ray Fischer <rfischer(a)sonic.net> wrote:
>> Brent <tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>On 2010-01-23, Chris H <chris(a)phaedsys.org> wrote:
>>>> In message <hjfd8f$pjv$2(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Brent <tetraethyll
>>>> eadREMOVETHIS(a)yahoo.com> writes
>>>>>On 2010-01-23, Chris H <chris(a)phaedsys.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>>Also, an 80 year old person cannot get a kidney or transplant. Heart
>>>>>>>transplant candidates are carefully screened. All of this is a form of
>>>>>>>rationing.
>>>>>
>>>>>> In the UK they would if they were fit enough for the operation and it
>>>>>> would improve their life. That said AFAIK all patients get screened for
>>>>>> operations as no one wants to do pointless operations. However these
>>>>>> decisions are taken on medical grounds.
>>>>>
>>>>>That's rationing of the pie. The customer doesn't decide, the government
>>>>>employee does.
>>>>
>>>> Not at all the medical staff decide on MEDICAL grounds.
>>>
>>>I did not say what grounds the decision was made on, only who makes it.
>>>The government employees make it. Because government is political most
>>>of the decision making will be political.
>>>
>>>>>They decide how the health care pie is going to be split
>>>>>up. They decide if the 80 year old is deserving of it or not. It's a
>>>>>fixed supply system. That's the mentality it runs under.
>>>
>>>> That is the US mentality. Not the NHS mentality.
>>>
>>>That's the government mentality.
>>>
>>>> All I have seen so far is the US does not trust it's own governments.
>>>
>>>Government has killed more people than anything else in human history.
>>>Government is fundamentally a criminal enterprise. Government and a
>>>criminal gang with sufficent power are for all purposes the same thing.
>>
>> Government is us. By damning government you damn yourself.
>
>It is not 'us'.

Of course it is. It is nothing more that people, paid by taxpayers,
to provide services to the people.

> It hasn't been 'us' for a very very long time if it
>ever was.

Anarchist idiocy.

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From: Ray Fischer on
Brent <tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>On 2010-01-24, Chris Malcolm <cam(a)holyrood.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Brent <tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

>>> Government has killed more people than anything else in human history.
>>> Government is fundamentally a criminal enterprise. Government and a
>>> criminal gang with sufficent power are for all purposes the same thing.
>>
>> There are still some countries with no effective government at all you
>> could go to.
>
>Where various criminal gangs battle to be the government.

That's kind of what anarchy is. If you don't like government then you
get to deal with thugs.

But since you don't like government then you really have no
alternative.

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From: Ray Fischer on
rendition <ren(a)stimpy.org> wrote:
>Ray Fischer wrote:
>> rendition <ren(a)stimpy.org> wrote:
>>> Ray Fischer wrote:
>>>> rendition <ren(a)stimpy.org> wrote:
>>>>> Ray Fischer wrote:
>>>>>> tony cooper <tony_cooper213(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>>>>> Chris H <chris(a)phaedsys.org>
>>>>>>>> According to an in depth discussion in another group The UK actually
>>>>>>>> spends less per person on health care (including dental) in the UK than
>>>>>>>> the USA spends per person. Also it covers EVERY person in the UK, not
>>>>>>>> just 80% as per the USA.
>>>>>>> Where do you get your 80% figure? Everyone in the US is covered by
>>>>>>> some sort of health care program.
>>>>>> Nope.
>>>>> See: emergency room.
>>>> See: Idiot rightard who doesn't realize that emergency room bills must be paid.
>>> Well of course they must,
>>
>> Thus refuting the idiot rightard's claim that covered health
>> insurance is the same as fee-for-service treatment in an emergency
>> room.
>
>No such claim was made,

The rightard idiot forgets the script.

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