x-posty with Brenda!

Socialist! Commie! HIPPIE!

And here I thought that in order work, generally speaking, you need to be healthy. So that work can be done. Strange.

DH asked me yesterday where the word "hippie" originated. Anyone know?

I heard it's an abbreviation for a social class, such as Yuppie. Can't remember of what, though.

And here I thought that in order work, generally speaking, you need to be healthy. So that work can be done. Strange.

You need to work hard enough to deserve to be healthy! t /Protestant

And then feel guilty about doing anything that isn't work or church! t /Catholic

You need to work hard enough to deserve to be healthy!

Oh, rats! We should totally return to the 16 hour work day in health-endangered factories with 40 years of life expectancy of chronic pain, then!

And dammit, the whole part of the entitlement of who deserves what basic rights. Don't even get me started on this one. All that I can tell you is that I watch parts of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition", and can't, for the life of me, to say what makes one deserved and what's not. I believe it's called "luck", and from what I observed, it's usually distributed unequally. And with that, the God(s) of luck you pray to aren't divine, at all. They're humans who emphasis inequality of rights. < / Žižek>

Sometimes, I look at the human kind, and go all "c'mon. We've been dealing with this issue since at least the 9th century (at least, as documented in writing). That's the best we can come up with? Really?".

I'd like to think that getting health services is a basic right for everyone.

So would I, but there is definitely a part of our society who believes health insurance and health care is something you work for and don't just get. That segment tends to get really angry about having to fund other people's "free stuff." These are also, generally, privileged people who have been very lucky and have had jobs, money, and health insurance.

reason #67 I love working at home and having a work area connected to the kitchen: rice and beans are cooking on the stove and I can manage to figure out the settings on the old electric stovetop while still getting work done. simmer = "warm" not "lo", who knew?

So would I, but there is definitely a part of our society who believes health insurance and health care is something you work for and don't just get. That segment tends to get really angry about having to fund other people's "free stuff." These are also, generally, privileged people who have been very lucky and have had jobs, money, and health insurance.

Maybe I should elaborate. I think that among the basic rights are the right to get health services, the right to work for your living, the right to get some sort of basic education for all and the right to own property (in capitalist societies). Mixing both of work and health rights is kind of like mixing the education and property rights: if you don't own property, you can't go to school. Or if you don't go to school, you can't get property. Sure there's some kind of link - but it shouldn't be a compulsory one, in my eyes.

I have a question for the hivemind: what do you all think of saying the Pledge of Allegiance? I don't want to be more specific than that right now because I don't want to ask leading questions, so I'll leave it wide open for now.

what do you all think of saying the Pledge of Allegiance?

Do you want an opinion from non-Americans, as well?