jenjen the amazing! (![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} doomandnachos) wrote,@ 2009-08-15 00:38:00 |
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STFU and RTFM.
Once again,who_anon and Twitter provide the answers, this time to the US healthcare debate:
RT @The_Arn The NHS helped the Doctor recover in Spearhead from Space, US healthcare killed one of him in the McGann movie #welovetheNHS.
Joking aside...well, I don't get into religious matters much, as I am the world's most lacksadaisical Episcopalian, but there's one thing that never fails to induce mindboggling rage in me. I loathe people who are ever so quick to parade their ~*Christian Values*~ when it comes to matters like gay marriage, but the moment anyone suggests offering a helping hand to the less fortunate, their noses go up and they start throwing out phrases like "personal responsibility!!!"
Read the book, people.
Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you accursed...For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, a stranger and you gave me no welcome, naked and you gave me no clothing, ill and in prison, and you did not care for me.' Then they will answer and say, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or ill or in prison, and not minister to your needs?'
He will answer them, 'Amen, I say to you, what you did not do for one of these least ones, you did not do for me.'
(That's Matthew 25:41-45, with a slight cut for my typing convenience.)
Access to basic health care is not a privilege. It should never, ever be dependent on one's income or station in life, and I see anyone who says otherwise as having a deplorable lack of compassion for their fellow people. And that's just my gut reason for supporting a national health plan. There are many more, completely logical, reasons for doing so, which I won't get into at this time, as it's already past midnight and I'm still recovering from a day off sick.
So, yeah. Just throwing that out there.
Once again,
who_anon and Twitter provide the answers, this time to the US healthcare debate:RT @The_Arn The NHS helped the Doctor recover in Spearhead from Space, US healthcare killed one of him in the McGann movie #welovetheNHS.
Joking aside...well, I don't get into religious matters much, as I am the world's most lacksadaisical Episcopalian, but there's one thing that never fails to induce mindboggling rage in me. I loathe people who are ever so quick to parade their ~*Christian Values*~ when it comes to matters like gay marriage, but the moment anyone suggests offering a helping hand to the less fortunate, their noses go up and they start throwing out phrases like "personal responsibility!!!"
Read the book, people.
Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you accursed...For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, a stranger and you gave me no welcome, naked and you gave me no clothing, ill and in prison, and you did not care for me.' Then they will answer and say, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or ill or in prison, and not minister to your needs?'
He will answer them, 'Amen, I say to you, what you did not do for one of these least ones, you did not do for me.'
(That's Matthew 25:41-45, with a slight cut for my typing convenience.)
Access to basic health care is not a privilege. It should never, ever be dependent on one's income or station in life, and I see anyone who says otherwise as having a deplorable lack of compassion for their fellow people. And that's just my gut reason for supporting a national health plan. There are many more, completely logical, reasons for doing so, which I won't get into at this time, as it's already past midnight and I'm still recovering from a day off sick.
So, yeah. Just throwing that out there.