On 12/29/2013 12:37 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> But again, to call the US a "police state" is really like calling us a
> "socialist state" because we now have affordable health care.  It's
> hyperbole at the best.
>

Err. No.. I think the former is a much saner claim than the later, given 
that, as it sits, the "Affordable Health Care" bill that passed based on 
"Letting a lot of corporations sell insurance in places they couldn't 
before, such as across state lines, in competition with each other, 
often by, first, pulling the rug out from under their own customers, by 
cancelling their existing policies."

Calling the US a socialist state based on that idiocy is a bit like 
suggesting that Purple is a shade of Yellow, or that there is a 
functional difference between water and dyhydrogen monoxide. That there 
are actually some idiots in congress, on Faux News, and especially in 
the so called "Tea Party", actually claiming this, isn't all that relevant.

That being said, to use a better anology.. the US has become about as 
much of a police state, given the revelations of the NSA, and a lot of 
other crap going on, as.. say.. An Oreo is a kind of "soft cookie". Its 
both, at once, depressingly inaccurate, and a tad too close to 
plausible, given the right.. environmental conditions.

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