tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851578517872251953.post2786705234428253844..comments2023-10-10T05:07:13.577-07:00Comments on En Tequila Es Verdad: Dumbfuckery du JourDana Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00890312745525306991noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851578517872251953.post-39521122314117963662010-04-24T10:50:29.826-07:002010-04-24T10:50:29.826-07:00Cujo: got a post somewhere explaining what's w...Cujo: got a post somewhere explaining what's wrong with Grayson? Everything I've seen from him seemed very much like "wow, a politician actually saying stuff that makes <i>sense</i> for a change??"Woozlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17948248776908775080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851578517872251953.post-38713014260636900962010-04-24T01:11:30.643-07:002010-04-24T01:11:30.643-07:00Hmm, lesse, a young laying hen (worth a lot more t...Hmm, lesse, a young laying hen (worth a lot more than just one you're going to eat, so we're being super generous) is about 10-15 dollars.<br /><br />That's if your health care provider really *wants* a laying hen. I mean where are they going to put them all? By the end of the day you'd have to throw out any notion of sterile environment, everything would be covered in feathers and chickenshit. <br /><br />So anyway, if your cancer treatment is in the 200-300K range (not hard to make it cost more if you end up spending more time in hospital than planned), then you'll have to bring twenty-thousand chickens. <br /><br />Yeah, right.<br /><br />And of course if you don't <i>own a fucking chicken farm</i> (and to be frank, really, how many people own 20,000 chickens) you're going to have to buy them. <br /><br />How many of the urban poor own even <i>ONE</i> chicken? What are they supposed to do?<br /><br />So yeah, only a complete idiot would fail to see the problems with this, so of course the Tea Party crowd will eat it right up.Efriquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08526031804261484547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851578517872251953.post-29012966031679286322010-04-23T10:48:15.366-07:002010-04-23T10:48:15.366-07:00Speaking of not understanding the economics, thoug...Speaking of not understanding the economics, though, I'll just add for the benefit of Rep. Grayson that what he says about Republicans is now true of the Democrats, as well. The only difference is that now I also have to pay either an insurance company or the IRS for the privilege of dying quickly.<br /><br />Grayson and all the other demagogues can screw themselves.Cujo359https://www.blogger.com/profile/10385213658828021737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851578517872251953.post-4189610557951713742010-04-23T10:45:07.952-07:002010-04-23T10:45:07.952-07:00I wonder how many tomatoes it would take to pay fo...I wonder how many tomatoes it would take to pay for an MRI? Maybe three, four truckloads?<br /><br />There's a point in what Republicans are saying. Unfortunately, it's obscured by the fact that they clearly don't understand how much it costs to get anything done in medicine these days. The days of paying for a procedure with poultry and vegetables are over, if only because the transportation costs alone would set a lot of people back.Cujo359https://www.blogger.com/profile/10385213658828021737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851578517872251953.post-66509305261247218752010-04-23T04:13:15.689-07:002010-04-23T04:13:15.689-07:00Also... innit funny how they're so against gam...Also... innit funny how they're so against gambling when it's <i>fun</i>, but totally in favor of people gambling with their health (and lives)?<br /><br />Because -- face it, conservalithics: absence of insurance means you're gambling that you can afford whatever may happen. That's the whole point of insurance: to spread risk, so nobody loses their shirt.<br /><br />But what am I doing trying to argue rationally with them? *smacks self*Woozlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17948248776908775080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851578517872251953.post-6402764076040253492010-04-23T04:07:53.324-07:002010-04-23T04:07:53.324-07:00This is Data Point #MCMXLVII1I1!11 in the dataset ...This is Data Point #MCMXLVII1I1!11 in the dataset demonstrating that Conservatism Is An Illness, Not An Ideology...Woozlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17948248776908775080noreply@blogger.com