Scary. If you don't elect the right candidate, you'll get another 9/11. Or maybe, because you were so bad, and God really hates you now, more than one 9/11.
I'm sick of it. It's such specious nonsense (literally), and it's also fantastically hypocritical.
We suffer six 9/11s a year in the United States of America. This year, last year, the year before--and will next year and the year after. We -- our government -- do nothing.
Over 18,000 people will die unnecessarily this year. That many dies last year. That many will die next year. I might be one of them. You might be one of them. If not, your parent, child, friend or neighbor will be one of them. The odds are that we'll do nothing. They have come to get us for years and years and will come this year, and will come next year... and odds are we'll just go about our business--being afraid of other people most of whom would simply like us to go away so that they can try to rebuild their war savaged countries.
We're spending trillions of dollars to protect ("protect") ourselves from things that aren't likely to happen--and doing it badly, ineffectively, inefficiently and venally--and we're not willing to spend billions to protect ourselves from six 9/11s a year.
Just read it.
Lack of health insurance causes roughly 18,000 unnecessary deaths every year in the United States.
... America ... is the only wealthy, industrialized nation that does not ensure that all citizens have coverage.
I'm a Universalist. I believe in attempting universal salvation in this life. Salvation from infectious disease, cancer, mental illness and other disorders. Not at some future date, not pie in the sky salvation -- maybe -- in the hereafter.
Today and every day.
Feed the hungry. Heal the sick. House the homeless.
If we accept six 9/11s a year, why not accept just one more and ignore it too? The idea is absurd. So why are you accepting six a year?
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Just for the record, I make a point of deleting comments that are grossly off topic, or abusive, or the like. I don't want Robin to mistake this for being part of the Vast Conspiracy about him. Post more or less on topic--and I don't care who you are, or aren't. In this particular case, Robin, your comment was completely off topic and thus tended to trivialize a serious matter. I understand that it's not a life and death issue for Canadians, living in a civilized country that provides universal health care. But I, my family, and 300 million other people are at risk, solely to provide profits to the wealthy and powerful -- and bribe money for politicians.
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