Jon S
11-05-2007, 07:36 PM
well over the last few weeks a friend of mine and i have been arguing about the issue of healthcare. thankfully my friend will only be 17 when the election rolls around but heres how most conversations went.
we would be talking about some random irrelevant think when he would burst out into "well jon is voting for a republican"
knowing that he agrees with ron paul on most issues except healthcare i would go into the benefits of free market healthcare over socialized healthcare. he would instantly turn to the "well look at europe, they are all socialized medicine and they're doing great"
well having lived in germany for 5 years and knowing this not to be true i would tell him so. since i had to explicit source to give him i came home last night and started a conversation with a german friend of mine online.
of course this convo with my led to him talking about how had the german healthcare system was and how it needed reform.
today there were those "who has the most" forms passed out today in school.
i was reading thru them trying to get some names to put down and i got to the "who is the biggest hippie" well due to my long hair, general chill attitude, and love for music (and uhh not to mention former illicit activities) most people in the group said i should be there.
i went into my speech about ho modern hippies are hypocrites who don't practice what they preech and merely do it for attention.
at which point my friend came in with "and plus jon's voting republican so he can't be a hippie" i then responded "you know ryan most 'hippies' want government OUT of their lives, not more government involvement IN their lives" then he became silent... paused for a moment, then started into "yea well in the sixties it was different and the government was more in peoples lives back then" me "what are you talking about? its even worse today than it was back then and the media has brainwashed you into thinking its not" he responded "i don't wanna argue about this right now"
:) just goes to show that socialists have no clue what they're talking about. and NO TRUE hippie could be a socialist.
peace
we would be talking about some random irrelevant think when he would burst out into "well jon is voting for a republican"
knowing that he agrees with ron paul on most issues except healthcare i would go into the benefits of free market healthcare over socialized healthcare. he would instantly turn to the "well look at europe, they are all socialized medicine and they're doing great"
well having lived in germany for 5 years and knowing this not to be true i would tell him so. since i had to explicit source to give him i came home last night and started a conversation with a german friend of mine online.
of course this convo with my led to him talking about how had the german healthcare system was and how it needed reform.
today there were those "who has the most" forms passed out today in school.
i was reading thru them trying to get some names to put down and i got to the "who is the biggest hippie" well due to my long hair, general chill attitude, and love for music (and uhh not to mention former illicit activities) most people in the group said i should be there.
i went into my speech about ho modern hippies are hypocrites who don't practice what they preech and merely do it for attention.
at which point my friend came in with "and plus jon's voting republican so he can't be a hippie" i then responded "you know ryan most 'hippies' want government OUT of their lives, not more government involvement IN their lives" then he became silent... paused for a moment, then started into "yea well in the sixties it was different and the government was more in peoples lives back then" me "what are you talking about? its even worse today than it was back then and the media has brainwashed you into thinking its not" he responded "i don't wanna argue about this right now"
:) just goes to show that socialists have no clue what they're talking about. and NO TRUE hippie could be a socialist.
peace