Sean Renaud
The West Coast Pop
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Julius Ceasar comes to mind as a way to destroy a country? MAN I need to live in your world.
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Yeah, I do too, but sometimes the alternative is worse. At least the non-death alternative is.I could never do lithium... they way they have to keep taking blood to check your levels... I just couldn't do it. I always feel bad on people who are on intense medication regimines like that.
There is no easy answer to that question...and as a conservative I can admit that.
No one is going to want to hear this, but it doesn't make it any less true, the problem with healthcare in this country started with the advent of medicare, and medicaid. When I was a kid, we'd pay out of pocket for our routine medical care, and insurance was for catastrophic illnesses only. It worked reasonably well, and just as insurance was supposed to work by spreading the risk across multiple people. Yes, some people got left out in that system, the poor who truly couldn't afford the Doctor's visits, or the people with some pre-existing condition that kept them from being able to afford the insurance plans that were available. I don't know if charity worked well enough to meet all those needs, but it is what it was. There are way too many reasons to list here, but all government healthcare schemes work as policy but fail in practice because it needs more people at the bottom of the pyramid to pay for the folks at the top, when their healthcare needs are the greatest. As costs rise, it becomes unsustainable. I understand the compassion, and even agree with it up to a point, but at the end of the day, paying for it is going to be impossible. The ACA exacerbates that problem. I personally don't have a solution, but I know the road we are on now ends in failure, as all pyramid schemes do.
"Impossible," and yet every other country in the world outside the true hellholes seems to manage it just fine. Wonder how that is?
Julius Ceasar comes to mind as a way to destroy a country? MAN I need to live in your world.
That's just it, people don't come to America for medical care. Our medical care sucks unless you're rich and as is mentioned above everybody else manages to pay for it so I don't know how it's impossible.
They do kinda run together. I think that if it takes several centuries after a dude named his horse senator before the empire fell that you can just chalk that up to if you build something well breaking it's a bitch and three quarters.
After talking with Jen this morning I feel kinda bad actively engaging with her. I used to think she was just a troll or a bot or something, but I talked to her one on one for a while and now I kinda think that she has some kind of severe learning disability and I have the guilt for making her feel bad.
A society of healthy people is more productive, greater GNP, greater individual spending levels, better for businesses.
Who was the other one- the random one who hid angry lions in random rooms in the house and shit? As if his life were the precursor to the show "JackAss".
Hehe, Romans...
I gotta listen to that goddamn song from Horrible Histories now or it'll be in my head forever...
I fucking love this song for absolutely no reason
It must suck watching everyone pass you by...dont u feel stuck? Embarrased?

That unfortunatley is too complicated for Jen to understand. She only understand that socialism killed her father and raped her mother.
Don't feel bad, embrace the darkness.
Meh, I literally have four different medications for that. I've got much bigger things to worry about. Besides, nobody passes me by. You overestimate the people around me. By a great deal.![]()
Mur. . .mercy kill?
But she's quote literally rambling like an Alzheimer's patient! For all we know she's all sad and alone and scared that the black president from Kenya's gonna... do... something... that was never clearly defined but is terrifying. Can you imagine how horrible it would be to walk around every day with that kind of fear just hanging over you?
Can we have one team meeting that doesn't result in a mercy killing? I'm starting to think that we've made a fundamental mistake in the selection of the heroic side for our team.
Can we have one team meeting that doesn't result in a mercy killing? I'm starting to think that we've made a fundamental mistake in the selection of the heroic side for our team.