From: Tony Williams 

Mark wrote:
> "Tony Williams"  wrote in message
> news:43b9a198$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>>Gary Britt wrote:
>>
>>>That's a LIE.
>>
>>No, it's the absolute truth. I didn't say the ambulance wouldn't turn up,
>>just that it would cost a ludicrous amount which the patient would be
>>responsible for paying.
>
>
> That's odd, I've ridden in an ambulance, my son has ridden in ambulance,
> indeed my ex-wife has too (on three separate occasions occurring over a span
> of 5 decades) and none of us paid a dime. We have, in NJ, what is called a
> "Volunteer Rescue Squad" most everywhere. I'm not sure how
the big cities
> may work it, but I doubt your "pulled out of thin air"
$1,000 figure is
> reflective of any actual reality.

Not pulled out of thin air at all, but from personal experience (it was me
in the ambulance). I had medical insurance so they paid the money, but if I
hadn't then we'd probably still be squabbling over who paid what.

>
>>>Its not government's job to feed people, provide them housing or
>>>healthcare.
>>
>>Yes it is.
>
> Perhaps under Communism it is (which is exactly where you want the world to
> go given your positions),

Welfare socialism if you don't mind. The communist *principles* are fine,
but I've already said that I doubt they're feasible to implement on any
large scale.

> OTOH, quite a few million people under the
> benevolent thumb of communism died in Russia -- in fact some reporter for
> some paper here in the US won a Nobel prize for his reporting that somehow
> missed/buried that fact. His brethren are still reporting what they want to
> rather than the facts.

As opposed to reporting what Murdoch tells them to ...

--
Tony

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