Re: Medicare Means Test

On 15 Nov 2003 14:51:42 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bettina) wrote:

>[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

Do you think that Herman walks around with a skull in his hand
muttering "Alas, poor Georgie"??

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