http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0604/medicine.men.html

I just want to start this off by saying, "HA HA."

So Canada's vaunted socialist health care system sucks. Big surprise. You ahve to wait months for non-emergency surgery, and many ahve died while on the wait list for heart surgery. Sure, poor people get cold medicine for free, but if they have heart problems, they're fucked. The wealthy can afford to cross the border to the US where they can egt quality medical care, but if you're a poor person in Canada and require medical care a bit more sophisticated than "take two and call me in the morning," you're pretty much out of luck. Funny how a system that was created to protect the poor has instead killed off several poor people. I know someone that moved here from Canada because, beyond the ridiculous socialist medical system, the roads are falling apart, taxes are strangling families, and there's little sense of optimism as far as moving up in life, bettering yourself, whatever. Socialism promises the lazy that it's ok to continue being lazy because the taxes on hard workers will save them, and at the same time discourages the hard workers from working hard, because all hard work does is add to their tax burden, and it certainly doesn't allow you better access to government programs, so what's the point of working hard when you'll be in the same boat as a slacker?. Pure capitalism, on the other hand, gives incentives to hard workers to work hard, and tells lazy people they are s.o.l. What we have in the United States is a mixture of the two, where hard workers can move up, even though their taxes will be increased some, and lazy people will get enough handouts to get by for a while, but not forever. Personally I prefer pure capitalism. Yes, it becomes a matter of social Darwinism, but so what? People are entitled to equal rights, sure, and that's something I would fight for. But all people are not created equal. That's a fact, pure and simple. If they were created equal, then why does Kobe Bryant, younger than I am, make millions for playing basketball, while I write this blog? If people were equal then I'd be able to play Kobe to a standstill in one-on-one. And if people are not equal, then some must be better than others. And what is so wrong with expecting the better people to succeed more than the others? Better or not, by the way, is in no way related to race or religion or anything like that. It's based on what individuals are. Alan Greenspan is smarter than a lot of people, Kobe is a better basketball player, and Jennifer Anniston is more attractive. 90% of Americans will agree with that statement, and also agree with the statement that all people are created equal. The problem is that one statement denies the other, and you can't have both be true. The "All people are created equal," thing is a lie that has given rise to many of the worst tradgedies in human history, communism, Stalinism, and the millions of dead people that resulted are a direct effect of "all people are created equal."

Please don't mistake me. I'm not calling for everyone that scores below a certain number on an IQ test to be killed, I'm simply saying we ought to remove some of the safety nets we have that force some to pick up the slack of others. It's not black and white, it's all gray, which is why a really smart man who is a total jerk and exerts totalitarian power over others is not better than a mentally-deficient homeless person. The one guys jerkiness can easily negate any "betterness" that his intelligence grants him, if you were going to do an accounting.


EDIT: It's about 6 hours after I wrote the above, and I would like to retract a lot of it on further thought. I'm leaving it up simply because I feel it would be dishonest not to. It's not that I disagree with my 6 hours earlier self, but that I think the section on social darwinism needs to be thought out a lot better so I don't come across as an asshole, because I'm not.