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Law & Order - 8x05 - Nullification (1997)
A few hours before the Supreme Court upheld “Obamacare”, John Stossel wrote in an article entitled In Praise of Discrimination in the Health Insurance Market:
The truth is, almost all people do get health care, even if they don’t have health insurance. Hospitals rarely turn people away; Medicaid and charities pay for care; some individuals pay cash; some doctors forgive bills.
This disconnect between how rich white men think people live and how people actually live is at the heart of why I’ll never support libertarianism. Penn Jillette once wrote:
People need to be fed, medicated, educated, clothed, and sheltered, and if we’re compassionate we’ll help them, but you get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right. There is great joy in helping people, but no joy in doing it at gunpoint.
The rhetoric towards poor people is always so hateful though when libertarians are asked to pay more taxes. Why would they suddenly be compassionate to the same people they see as lazy and stupid? If you don’t think welfare recipients are deserving of anything except your white hot rage, why would I trust the motives behind your charitable contributions? For every Bill Gates, there are a thousand white CEOs who care about nothing more than lining their pockets and think the bum on the corner should have just worked harder.
You cannot instill a system of centuries of institutional racism and oppression and then expect individualism to magically be the answer. Penn Jillette will talk about how he went from being a street juggler to performing in Vegas but he won’t admit how his privilege played a part in that and how different his experience would be if he wasn’t white and male.
Libertarians fail to understand that the lives of others aren’t Darwinian thought experiments and that having debates about erosion of individual liberties while people are dying from lack of access of health care is sociopathic. “Why should I have to pay for the health care of others?”. Because if you contribute a small amount to a collective pool, everyone will have access to health care and that is the decent and right thing to do.
Your movement is created by white people for white people. Just gather your guns and pot and move to New Hampshire already and get over yourself.
Paul Simon | Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard
Tae-Mi - Korean Actress and Taekwondo expert
Aaron Paul and Giancarlo Esposito attend The Broadcast Television Journalists Association Second Annual Critics’ Choice Awards
Old, dilapidated buildings are usually an unsightly scene. In this case, however, miniature broken down houses are appreciated for being wonderful works of art. The series itself is based on photographs of abandoned structures neglected by man and destroyed by the weather. The photographs were taken by an amateur photographer from North Dakota, Ofra Lapid. They were then used to create small scale models.
FORWARD WIDELY:
“Darius Simmons was by all accounts a good kid. The fun loving 6th grader was simply moving a garbage can in front of his home when his neighbor, 75 year old John Henry Spooner confronted him with a shotgun and accused him of stealing from his home. Darius, who was in school the time of the robbery, denied being involved with the theft. John Henry Spooner then proceed to shoot Darius in his chest, while he had his hands raise showing Spooner he was unarmed. His mom, who was watching in horror, ran to Darius to see if she could find a pulse, she couldn’t. Darius, 13 years old and unarmed, was murdered in cold blood in front of his mother.”
