On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:28:22 -0400, Warp wrote:

>   And IMO in this case it was completely uncalled for. It sounded like
>   the
> same kind of idiotic argument like "social welfare is communism, and
> thus we must not succumb to it, like all those European countries",
> after which you have cough medicine costing $100 a bottle (which in
> other countries costs something like 10 cents).

Agreed.   We subsidize farmers to grow corn for ethanol over here, it 
seems that we like providing business welfare in the US (bank bailouts, 
auto industry bailouts, agribusiness subsidies, etc) but if it's 
individuals, we'd rather they starve or die of some horrible disease.

It's sickening.

I'm reminded of something I heard actor Craig T. Nelson say on Glen 
Beck's show on Fox News:  "I started my own business and it failed.  
Where was my bailout?  I was on unemployment and food stamps and the 
government didn't help me out at all!" (paraphrased)

My first thought was, "uh, dude, where do you think unemployment and food 
stamps come from?"

Jim

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