Socialists for gun rights

[Guest Ralph G. Briscoe]

Ralph even you should know that non profit only means that costs and payouts are monitored in a different manner than purely for profit entities. The chief department heads at Mayo are compensated for their knowledge at a much higher rate than your regional hospital staff that is run for profit! It's just at the end of the year how the numbers and where the payments came from that make the difference.

I'm sure we all need food to survive and water. So should truck drivers all drive for rates that will make all food stuffs available for everyone at low costs subsidized by taxes? I'll take filet three times a week please! The water department should not charge me to hydrate myself should they? I could die without water in only a few days! How dare they withhold or charge for live giving water!

What happens is the market determines the price and people receive compensation to deliver these services and goods. Econ 101 right? Well when you alter those basic principles you kill the good or service. We have seen it in many industries. When government takes over healthcare, your brightest and best will no longer have the incentive to take on these unforgiving jobs. So now you have govt bureaucrats managing the mediocre. A sure solution of success.

Its being tried in many countries around the world. If I want to surf, I move to Hawaii, no oceans in TN. If I want to do ice exploration as a passion, I have to go way north or way south. If someone wants to experiment with Socialistic ideals, opportunity abounds, no need to go through all this trouble to change us hard headed individuals. Rates are cheap to get around the world. Think of it as that summer after graduation knocking around Europe or China. See exciting places and cultures that live as you would want to live.....don't hold back....live Ralph...LIVE!

Again--"the government taking over healthcare" is not on the table!

We're talking about putting some regulations on the insurers and hopefully offering a medicare-like public option to provide some competition for the private companies.

To take your "food and water" analogy....water utilities are regulated!

Suppose they weren't and I bought the company supplying water to your house and decided that I was going to charge you $10 a gallon?

That's more like what we're dealing with.

[TGO David]

Ya know... I've had it with this silliness. For some reason the tactic of openly arguing with the moderators has become your new thing, and we do have a rule against that as well. We ask that you take it up with moderators in private, but you've chosen to do it publicly several times lately.

One week TEMPORARY time-out for you. This will give you time to cool down and reconsider this approach to things.

And for what it's worth, my suggestion wasn't an attack on Ralph. It was merely an idea that would give him ample exposure to a Socialist society and allow him to form more educated opinions on the matter in the future.

Sort of like how a temporary ban will help you make a more educated opinion on whether or not you want to keep shoving moderators noses in things you don't like in the future.

This thread is done.