[ExI] Yet another health care debate

[Damien Sullivan]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 07:27:34AM -0700, spike wrote:

> Ja.  Keep in mind, fear and want aint what they used to be.  Fear pf
> starvation shouldn't be a part of it, nor homelessness.  But we can have
> fear of a hand-me-down Intel 386, and want of a Sony LCD screen, that sorta
> thing.  That would keep us rising and going to the office.  Hey, works on

...apart from some really egalitarian socialists, people are fine with
that.  That kind of 'fear' and 'want' isn't what social democrats talk
about.  Well, the minimum does get raised from just food and simple
shelter -- education -- but there's plent of room for carrots, and want
of a bigger carrot.

-xx- Damien X-)