The EFF's anti-SCO congressional letter campaign [LWN.net]

The EFF's anti-SCO congressional letter campaign

Posted Aug 29, 2003 19:40 UTC (Fri) by chad.netzer (✭ supporter ✭, #4257)
In reply to: The EFF's anti-SCO congressional letter campaign by dbhost
Parent article: The EFF's anti-SCO congressional letter campaign

Seems like YOU are the one trying to ram ideas, and generalizations, down people's throats. The polls I've seen show that the majority of americans do favor some form of national or universal healthcare, but no one quite agrees how to achieve it (and the businesses that profit from the status quo lobby heavily against ANY change, even relatively non-socialist ones). Certainly people don't want a massive tax increase to get it.

Hopefully some Canadians will comment on the inaccuracies in your portrayal of their health care system (even if it is quite off topic).

Btw, I'm not socialist, I'm a liberaltarian.

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The EFF's anti-SCO congressional letter campaign

Posted Aug 29, 2003 23:11 UTC (Fri) by jeff@uclinux.org (guest, #8024) [Link]

Sure. He doesn't know what he's talking about. Smacks of propaganda.

When I have an emergency, I can go to any of a handful of public or private
medical centres close by and be served. And I don't have any worries at all.
In contrast, my American co-workers worry what they will do if something
unfortunate happens.

You're just wrong, the social safety net is something that _works_ and is worth
it's weight in quality of life.

Jeff.

Let's stick to Linux politics

Posted Aug 30, 2003 4:08 UTC (Sat) by dwalters (guest, #4207) [Link]

Hey people. Please let's all just stop talking about politics that has nothing to do with Linux and free software.

Most of us do have political opinions on important matters such as healthcare and education, but expressing them in this forum is not appropriate.

It's always tempting to reply to political or religious statements that we don't agree with, but on LWN such postings are just noise and put people off reading the comments.

Let's talk about the political issues we do have in common, like how we can stop SCO from trashing Linux.

Let's stick to Linux politics

Posted Sep 1, 2003 17:05 UTC (Mon) by ccchips (subscriber, #3222) [Link]

I was using the example of universal health care just to make my point: People in high places generally don't like it much if people who do the work for them are too educated, too well off, or too healthy.

Just educated enough, well-off enough, and healthy enough to get to work in the morning and make them a profit is fine by them.

This is the impression I'm left with, living here in the United States all my life. The few times things were different, those gentry did nothing but throw tantrums and spew out scare-tactics.

That's what I see, sorry if you don't like it. It's also why I have doubts about asking Congress for anything, much less trying to get them entangled with the Judiciary branch more than they already are.

If you can't make somebody some money, don't expect them to side with you here in U.S.A.