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An ostentatious proposal

Travis

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Think of the costs illness and injury bring to our society.

Ambulances, EMTs, nurses, doctors, lifeflights, clinics, hospitals and all those drugs.

Now think of our present debt problems within the government.

What if, instead of treating the injured and the sick we merely transported them to a facility to be exterminated by the most economic means possible?

This not only eliminates the need for hospitals and all medical infrastructure but also frees up an enormous chunk of money. Both for the government and in the private sector. Imagine how doctors, with no one left to treat, will now move and find usefulness elsewhere.

It's possible we could first implement this in the armed forces. There, in battle instead of hauling the wounded out on liters and helicoptering them to MASH units they would be shot. Thus freeing up men and resources for the conduct of battle itself. The euthanized wounded would be replaced by reserves when time permits.

After trial by fire while under fire the social policy could be brought home. America is already a society that doesn't care if huge swaths of it die from treatable illnesses/conditions so getting their acquiescence shouldn't be too hard. Simply tell them the only other options are "socialsm" and they will be on board.

In a few short years a person will find themselves in a new type of society free the scourge of those that need help and assistance. They would feel bolstered knowing they can accomplish anything in this new world.......unless they accidentally trip and break a leg.
 
You know what's funny? Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal is well-known, but in fact no-one took it seriously enough to write a rebuttal that would ever be known at all.
 
And then we can feed the healthy poor Soylent Green and save even more money.
 
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theprestige said:
You know what's funny? Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal is well-known, but in fact no-one took it seriously enough to write a rebuttal that would ever be known at all.
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Was a rebuttal needed? Swift saw a horrible situation that a lot of people seemed to simply either not care about or proposed things that would do nothing.

DavidJames said:
Sheesh, another Libertarian thread.
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You got me. My constant calls for universal healthcare was just a front. ;)

MG1962 said:
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Not sure if serious. :boxedin:
 
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Apparently, "costs" is the wrong moniker.

"Grow sector of the economy" seems like the better term.

Bit I'm not sure about the macro-Economics. Can we just go ahead and do Obama care, or will we all starve to death in excellent help? What effect will a huge-mongous national debt have on the rest of society? Or can we go ahead and earn large salaries caring for each other to everybody's gain?
 
theprestige said:
I dunno, gratuitous strawman threads don't really rise to the level of < snip > in my opinion.
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Of course it is a strawman.


I just find it odd that people are perfectly okay letting the uninsured die but get all up in arms when this kind of callous thinking is taking to its ultimate conclusion.
 
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I think the solution is to get rid of money. After all, nobody really needs money. We need goods and services. If we simply provide everybody with the goods and services they need, and they provide us with the goods and services we need, we'll have no use for bits of paper or numbers in a bank account. Then instead of wasting our lives trying to collect more numbers in a bank account, we can actually accomplish something as a species, like building a sex temple on the moon. Doesn't that sound worthwhile? Low-gravity sex in worship of sex demons, on the moon! It's economically titillating.
 
TragicMonkey said:
I think the solution is to get rid of money. After all, nobody really needs money. We need goods and services. If we simply provide everybody with the goods and services they need, and they provide us with the goods and services we need, we'll have no use for bits of paper or numbers in a bank account. Then instead of wasting our lives trying to collect more numbers in a bank account, we can actually accomplish something as a species, like building a sex temple on the moon. Doesn't that sound worthwhile? Low-gravity sex in worship of sex demons, on the moon! It's economically titillating.
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I wish to contribute to your election campaign.
 
Barber Shop said:
I see that Travis has been reading those Ron Paul brochures I mailed him...
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Now now, there's no need to misrepresent Ron Paul's healthcare positions. He doesn't call for poor sick people to die; he expects that doctors, other healthcare workers, facilities, drug companies, and all others involved in healthcare to give away their products and services for free. If we only repealed the odious laws that prevent this from happening today, this process would already be well underway.
 
How about leaving people alone instead of executing them because they cost the government money?
 
TragicMonkey said:
Low-gravity sex in worship of sex demons, on the moon! It's economically titillating.
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As a woman I can tell you some men would be useless if it weren't for gravity. They don't know what to do so one of us has to be in free fall.
 
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