Friday, September 17, 2010

Perspective

"The Same Every Christmas" by Joshua Hagler
Sending someone a link to some tea party nonsense is like blowing ass then tricking your friend to come over and stand in it. Or is it like giving the world a dutch oven? Something that involves shit anyway. I'll figure out the deets later. Meanwhile, friend of the List Nick kindly invited me to puke out of my eyes when he pointed me to this letter that's making the rounds of the internet's roomier brain-dungeons this week:




Dear Mr. President:
During my shift in the Emergency Room last night, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient whose smile revealed an expensive shiny gold tooth, whose body was adorned with a wide assortment of elaborate and costly tattoos, who wore a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and who chatted on a new cellular telephone equipped with a popular R&B ringtone.


While glancing over her patient chart, I happened to notice that her payer status was listed as "Medicaid"! During my examination of her, the patient informed me that she smokes more than one pack of cigarettes every day, eats only at fast-food take-outs, and somehow still has money to buy pretzels and beer. And, you and our Congress expect me to pay for this woman's health care? I contend that our nation's "health care crisis" is not the result of a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or nurses. Rather, it is the result of a "crisis of culture" a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on luxuries and vices while refusing to take care of one's self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance. It is a culture based in the irresponsible credo that "I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me". Once you fix this "culture crisis" that rewards irresponsibility and dependency, you'll be amazed at how quickly our nation's health care difficulties will disappear.

Respectfully,
ROGER STARNER JONES, MD
If you agree...pass it on.

First of all 



But more interestingly, what this dude is saying is that people should be forced to purchase health care, because the government knows what's best for them?  And that we need the government to fix our culture? That doesn't exactly sound like small-government, low tax conservative policy, now does it? Racism and bitching about poor people are the bread and butter of heroes like this and they can't even get that shit right without fucking it up anymore. 




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9 comments:

The only Joz left standing said...

This letter reminds me of Alice In Chains classic "grunge" era single, "Down in a Hole".

Read these Lyrics and imagine identifying with them as strongly as you enjoy having orgasms:

Bury me softly in this womb
I give this part of me for you
Sand rains down and here I sit
Holding rare flowers
In a tomb...in bloom

Down in a hole and I don't know if I can be saved
See my heart I decorate it like a grave
You don't understand who they
Thought I was supposed to be
Look at me now a man
Who wont let himself be

Down in a hole, feelin so small
Down in a hole, losin my soul
Id like to fly,
But my wings have been so denied

Down in a hole and they've put all
The stones in their place
Ive eaten the sun so my tongue
Has been burned of the taste
I have been guilty
Of kicking myself in the teeth
I will speak no more
Of my feelings beneath

Down in a hole, feelin so small
Down in a hole, losin my soul
Id like to fly but my
Wings have been so denied

Bury me softly in this womb
Oh I want to be inside of you
I give this part of me for you
Oh I want to be inside of you
Sand rains down and here I sit
Holding rare flowers (oh I want to be inside of you)
In a tomb...in bloom
Oh I want to be inside...

Down in a hole, feelin so small
Down in a hole, losin my soul
Down in a hole, feelin so small
Down in a hole, outta control
Id like to fly but my
Wings have been so denied

Anonymous said...

I don;t have to imagine that

said...

Suppose it's possible that this shit is fake, in which case... never mind.

ghost of tom choad said...

Fucking loved AIC, yo.

Anonymous said...

That little kid never stops bitching.

said...

It's true, though. Our healthcare crisis would go away if Obama made healthcare super expensive. All the poor people would be dead. Problem solved.

Anonymous said...

Pretty sure you stole that letter out of my dad’s e-mail forwards distribution list. Not sure how you fixed the 35-point orange font.

said...

Your dad forwards me all his shit too.

Anonymous said...

I just stumbled across this and felt compelled to reply, even if it is months later. Firstly, the Doc isn't suggesting that we force anyone to buy insurance. I have no clue how your backwards ass came to that conclusion. Secondly, the way the government can "fix our culture" is to STOP SUPPORTING DEADBEATS WITH OUR TAX DOLLARS! See, it's not that they need to intvervene...they need to STOP intervening. But hey, who am I to question the thoughts of a race baiting progressive ignoramus?

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