[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Are you unhappy? >> > > Completely... however I have a low tolerance for fools, and thieves, whether > they try to sneak in my home at night or come with a brief case and say "I'm > from the government and I'm here to help you." > > If you've ever read Tom Hopkins you would know that you can retire today and > be content with your lot in life if you will simply lower your standards. He > makes a case in point of a man named Turley who lives under a bridge in > southern CA and gets his free meals by dumpster diving at nearby fast food > joints. Now everyone has a minimum level somewhere between Turley and the > Donald. You make your choices (it's back to that sticky thing called freedom > again) and move forward. > > I'm no existentialist, but they do have a point in that by deciding you are > living. I'd much rather decide to be striving and pushing forward than > coasting and letting Uncle Sam keep me afloat because I was raised with a > work ethic and place a value on personal responsibility. You don't need to > share these values. However, you expect me to accept yours by quietly > accepting confiscatory tax rates to fund your schemes - not mine - and other > hair brain ideas like global warming that can only be implemented by > coercion. > > I would suggest that it is you who is unhappy with the way I live and want to > change it to meet your specifications and to take from me what I worked for > to use for things I do not approve of and are harmful to me and my family. > This is why the left is always using compulsion as most people are too smart > to follow their foolishness voluntarily.
I think the Danes are happy, not only because they keep their expectations in the achievable range, but because they have developed a social system that handled all their major needs like public college education in addition to the grade school, junior high, and high school public education, health care, retirement, vacations time, 37 hour work week, day care for working mothers, etc. etc. So, a Dane know that he will be cared for form cradle to grave. All the Dane need do is get up a go to work each day and pay into the system. This must be very comforting, and the state seem to be efficient and thrifty at providing the social programs at very reasonable costs. I think the USA could learn something from taking a close look at the Danish system, if she would only try. Regards, LelandJ > > > -- > Larry Miller > > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/mixed > text/plain (text body -- kept) > message/rfc822 > --- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
