The Young Turks

 a logical argument...you buy a logical argument?

Gee there's hope for you after all Ken.

Does Billy offer a refund if the argument he sends you  gets blown* out of the water?

*( like your tax cut will be...)

So, I'm watching the video Ken linked to - the one that offers affordable(!?) programs starting at $160 a month and is guaranteed to be sold to you by "friendly and caring licensed agents" (licensed in what, exactly?) - and suddenly I had a wave of irresistible urges.

I wanted to cut through a soda can with a knife and then slice tomatoes.

I found a ton of spots and stains around my house I realized I could no longer abide and had to get them out - even that blueberry, blood, and ink splotch on my best white shirt.

I found myself running in the street after an 80.000 pound truck with a handful of silly putty, daring it to a tug-of-war contest.

I had the sudden realization that I could become a real estate mogul by buying up all these houses people are abandoning with no money down!

Gosh, what was that number again?

"If you’re sitting around waiting for Barack Obama to give you free health care..." ...you're going to be waiting a loooong time.

"I...believe that every American has the right to affordable health care. I believe that the millions of Americans who can't take their children to a doctor when they get sick have that right...We now face an opportunity - and an obligation - to turn the page on the failed politics of yesterday's health care debates. It's time to bring together businesses, the medical community, and members of both parties around a comprehensive solution to this crisis, and it's time to let the drug and insurance industries know that while they'll get a seat at the table, they don't get to buy every chair." -Barack Obama, Speech in Iowa City, IA, 5/27/07

He was NEVER in favor of single-payer, universal health care. Again, this was one of the things which prevented me from supporting Obama until it was between him and Hill. His "plan" didn't seem all that radical or worthy of a label of "change" when the same players are invited to sit down for another hand of poker. Some of the chips may change hands, but the cards are all the same. (Damn! That was "heavy"! Somebody quote me!)

 I don't know what the meaning or effect of "working with Elizabeth Edwards" will have toward refining his plan, if anything, but I am fairly certain that single-payer plans are off the table. So many things are off the table these days piling up around us, it's hard to move in any direction at all.

 Ken, if you really want to stop paying high taxes, there's a simple way to do it - quit your job, sell your car, take off your shoes, and live in a tree for awhile. Benefits? No payroll taxes, income taxes, gas taxes, house mortgage or insurance, sales taxes, tougher soles, a previously unknown affection for squirrel meat, a more tolerant appreciation for willy-nilly clear cutting forests after you have to change to your third tree, and the pleasure of realizing you have a growing psychosis. And, you can be a test patient for the McCain/Bush Health Plan, "Don't Get Sick!"

Sure, there are obvious drawbacks - you have to watch the latest episode of American Gladiators using binoculars and pray no one thinks you're "peeping." It's a little tough to get a bank account and the Voter Registrar's office will use new guidelines to disallow "The third oak past the Old Simpson place, just past Jump Off Joe crick" as a valid address, the bastards! And, of course, Dairy Queen DOESN'T deliver.

But, MAN! The taxes are CHEAP!

SUCK MY DICK!

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