Re: Medicare Means Test

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Herman Rubin) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Gretchen Evans  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On 12 Nov 2003 13:39:11 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Herman
> >Rubin) wrote:
>  
> >>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >>George Conklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  
> >>>"Herman Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >>>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>>>> And what would have been the effect if the ones who founded
> >>>> this country behaved like that?  They would still be slaves
> >>>> in Europe.
> 
> 
> >>>   It was the United States which had slavery, not Europe.  Your history
> >>>sucks Herman.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >>The life under a totalitarian regime is essentially slavery.
> >>Serfdom is probably worse than slavery.
>  
> >>BTW, Europe did not end slavery that long before the Civil
> >>War; the Haitian revolt was a slave revolt, and I believe
> >>that Cuba had slavery until the US took it from Spain.  There
> >>was a move to invade early in Grant's term as President.
>  
> >You're now claiming that we're all 'slaves', Herman?  What happened?
> >Did Purdue forget your paycheck this month?
>  
> >Funny, I certainly don't feel 'enslaved' by the government.. Disgusted
> >by their actions, yes; apprehensive about the so-called leader, yes;
> >concerned about the nitwits in Congress who prefer argument and
> >stone-walling to progress.... but certainly not 'enslaved'
> 
> I suggest you see what Shakespeare said about this topic;
> it is in _Hamlet_.  Hamlet says that Denmark is a prison;
> further, the whole world is, and Denmark is one of the cells.
> The courtier states that he does not feel he is in prison,
> to which Hamlet remarks that then he (the courtier) is not.

Hamlet saw the world and his nation as a prison. And Hamlet was very
weird and prone to ruminating at length about such peculiar topics as
whether to be or not to be.  I think Hamlet was the first libertarian!

Bettina