And I’m against it!

I think it is of no small import to this great nation that THE CHINESE INVENTED EXPLODING STUFF!!!

they’re exploding now? is it the plastique paint?

I’m also for theremins. They are the soundtrack to the future.

Well, I got yer business right here!

Owlbear, it’s quite simple: because of Teh Capitalism, there are no longer any losers, only winners! Hurrah! Ponies and blow jobs for everybody! All that blather about ‘survival of the fittest’ and ‘competition in a free market’ and all that, oh, okay, I know that’s part of the conservative prayer book, but really, what happens in the markets today is that there are winners, winningers, and winningest, and the only ones who suffer do so because they’re not following the rules.

So it’s all hunky dory, y’see?

Excusez moi, cheri, but what ees zees “label” of which you speak? Must I wear ze trenchcoat like Alain Delon, so we can whisper in ze shadows about zees? I ‘ave not ‘eard of a “label”, you see, for in my poor country (vive la France, cheri) we only ‘as labels. And labia, of course, being far more sexee zan you un-’appy Americans.

Au ‘voir, cheri, I must go and ‘ave a baguette and some champagne wiz my friends Pierre and Jacque and Eloise. Good luck wiz ze “label”-checking.

“I hated that office,” she writes. “And as ashamed as I am to admit it, most of all I hated the shabby, beaten-down clients…. When my interview was over, I hoped for a sudden deus ex machina, a lightning-flash vision that would reveal, through my tears, Christ in the faces of the frozen, unblinking clients I was leaving behind. But instead of God’s voice, the only sound was the scratchy bellow of another client’s name being mispronounced over the loudspeaker.”

Poor Kathy. But what’s a freshly showered good Catholic girl with lupus gonna do, rail at God for the lupus that drove her to the welfare office, as well as her plain appearance? (Yes, she’s bitter about that, too. If she had Coulter’s good looks she might get a teevee gig on Fox.) Blame the poor!

At least she had some shame about her hatreds then.

It seems Kathy’s self-hatred has evolved over time. In the 1980s she was part of the peace movement and marched with thousands of others to protest the arms race. Today she blames the poor for their misfortunes, admires George Bush, his glorious war, and the American free market health care system.

I’m guessing her need for welfare was the turning point in her self-loathing.

Of course, Kathy will never move to the USA because Canada’s health care system takes care of Kathy’s medical needs without Kathy having to spend much. If she’s like most Canadians, her health insurance (probably OHIP) costs between $35 and $75 a month – that is if you’re not on welfare or unemployed. Those folks don’t have to pay for health insurance.

The government insurer won’t reject her like some private outfit because she has lupus.

Your eligibility for Ontario health coverage is not determined by whether you have a job or are unemployed, or where you pay your income tax. It is based solely on your meeting one of the above citizenship or immigration categories and on you making your permanent and principal home in Ontario.

Yep, all you need be is a resident to receive coverage and how much you pay depends on whether you are employed or not. If you are employed (as most people are), it’s still a pittance. I know, I’m an employed Canadian and my insurance costs me $35.00 a month. With that I get a semi-private hospital room, as many doctors visits a year as I need, all surgery not deemed to be cosmetic, and 80% of my prescriptions covered plus a whole lot of other stuff.

Weird how she hates what she directly benefits from, eh?

“A more basic point is made very robustly by Kathy Shaidle: Advanced western democracies have delivered the most prosperous societies in human history. There simply are no longer genuinely “poor” people in sufficient numbers. As Miss Shaidle points out, if you’re poor today, it’s almost always for behavioral reasons – behavior which the state chooses not to discourage but to reward. Nonetheless, progressive types persist in deluding themselves that there are vast masses of the “needy” out there that only the government can rescue.”

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