I really appreciated her message too. I love my black kitties. :) I have two black cats and a tabby.

Our only solace, of course.

The Imagination Library is better than that. All kids (until a certain age) are eligible if the program is available in your area. There’s no proving you meet the criteria, you just sign up and they send your kid books. It’s really neat.

Lol. You trying to make a little girl cry?

I have a neighbor named Karen who is 13. She is totally traumatized by this meme.

Actually, that is where my name comes from. :)

Eh. Beaver’s not that remarkable. Pretty fatty.

@famousone was there a time period in the US when the government was appropriately uninvolved and things were going really well for most people? Which years were those?

Yeah... admittedly, I don’t often agree with @famousone, but he’s right about this one. I can agree that some of the stuff the US is doing right now is wrong and cruel, but there’s no comparison.

And I guess the thing that strikes me most is you seem affronted by the notion that someone might read all the things you say and translate that to mean you don’t care about other humans—but your plan has no place for people who aren’t wealthy or connected.

@famousone, what you’re proposing isn’t functional for a society. You get angry about people translating your words and the say things like you just said. Do you believe people are proposing and saying these things?
...70% taxes... easy life...
No one is proposing that. No one is even suggesting something like that. Having universal access to healthcare is not giving everyone an easy life. It’s giving everyone a chance to have a decent healthy life.
Personally, I’m glad for publicly maintained roads. Maintaining a road is expensive and a lot of work. And using toll roads is expensive and isn’t readily affordable for everyone—which is fine, if there are also public roads available.
But living in a society means supporting members in all the tiers. It’s fine if there are better options for people who have the kind of money you seem to have, but there are too many people that can’t survive in that system. And that’s not freedom. The word you’re looking for is individualism.

@famousone I apologize for not assuming that your use of “numbnuts” was autocorrect. I think it is fair that I didn’t. And I responded to that.
As far wanting other people to have health care, you argue a pretty strong case against it. And it sounds quite a lot like you don’t want it because you feel like it it is coming from “your pocket.”
You don’t want people from countries where this system is effective to chime in because they don’t know us. But they know universal healthcare. They know healthier populations. They know it can and does work.
If you want everyone to have access to healthcare why are you fighting so hard against the opportunity for them to have it?

I recognize that you don’t want everyone to have access to health care. That you think that is a luxury that should only be available to some people. But that is not true of everyone in this country.

Pretty sure “numbnuts” counts as name calling. Even if you don’t even realize you’re doing it.
And, there are lots of conditions a quick physical does catch, like mitral valve defects—even if you don’t bitch about it.
Our governance is what allows the the freedoms you so enjoy. It’s all part of the same system.
The best trick the insurance companies ever pulled on the American populace was convincing them that the cost of healthcare for all would hurt the American people more than it hurt the insurance companies. And you’re so filled up with that story that you can’t believe any thing else even when someone who lives in a place that has these things tells you otherwise.