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#3. Immediately runs to the teachers, firefights and police as if they are the only people employed by the federal Government. It is infuriating the way people like him treat the government.

People who want smaller government want to cut bureaucrats, reduce waste, reduce redundancy, reduce overhead, privatize some industries, reduce corporate welfare, etc. No more $16 muffins!

Unless on is wrong on their advice.

Btw, if that's referenced at anyone in particular, it's more useful to quote what they're saying in order to actually be witty ;)

I have a personal story to tell, to hopefully stimulate conversation, as well as to get it off my chest and maybe feel a little better about the whole situation.

About three weeks ago, my mother had a heart attack. She had been having chest pains off and on all that day, and she asked my dad to take her to the emergency room because the pain started to go into her arm. At the hospital, they told her that she'd be having a massive heart attack all day long, or something along those lines.

I will clarify our situation: we are poor, living paycheck-to-paycheck. My father works odd hours; one week, he'll work for three days, and the next week, he'll work for four days, each day being a twelve-hour shift. This is important because missing one day of work means missing either a third or a quarter of his paycheck that week. We don't have health insurance, of course.

At the ER, my mother had a stint put in and was put into a room. She was there for less than twenty-four hours; fed up with the doctors that never visited her (also, there was supposedly a group of doctors looking over her, and she never saw the same doctor twice) and the shitty care she was receiving (they brought her food only twice the entire time she was there, dinner the night she was brought in and lunch the next day; when she told the nurse that brought her lunch that she had never been given breakfast, the nurse just said, "Oh, they didn't bring it?"), she ripped out her IV and walked out of the hospital. The doctors had prescribed her several medications, two of which completely disregarded the fact that she has abnormal blood pressure. One of the medications was Plavix, which costs $200 a month, something we cannot afford. Of course, we didn't get the prescriptions filled.

Due to my mother going to the hospital, my father missed two days of work that week - twenty-four hours worth of work.

About a week later, my mother had to be rushed to the hospital again. That time, they had to call an ambulance to pick her up, because she was in so much pain. Once again, it was a heart attack. However, instead of taking her to the closest hospital, they took her to a bigger, better hospital where she received much better care. She actually stayed until they released her that time. She again received several prescriptions, including Plavix which she got some samples of and has been taking. She is doing relatively well now, though she is very weak the majority of the time. The better hospital informed her that there are two types of stints, one which requires taking Plavix for only three months and the other which requires taking Plavix for the rest of one's life. The shitty hospital put in the latter; furthermore, she had the second heart attack because they did a shitty job putting it in. The good hospital was dumbfounded at why the shitty hospital had done the things it did.

Due to the second heart attack, my father had to miss three days of work - thirty-six hours worth of work.

We went to the ER because we didn't have insurance; we have very high hospital bills we will never be able to pay. My mother is alive right now because someone else foot the bill. If the government decided that every citizen has to pay for every medical treatment they receive, and if they cannot pay, they will not receive the treatment, my mother would be dead right now.

At the same time, if all the hospitals were on par with the first, shitty hospital she went to, she'd probably be dead, despite receiving care. But perhaps that is moot, since people with insurance go to that shitty hospital. All I know is that we had to rely on hospitals, doctors, and nurses to save her life, and if money had been their only concern, they would have left her to die in the street, because we have none to spare.

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If you don't know the basic way reproduction works, how can you even argue about abortion. Ugu internet.

The many troubles of the current age can be in some way related to the over population of the planet. So wouldn't research into finding a new hospitable world be very keen to humanities survival?

SNIP