Our health care system seems to exist in a state of cognitive dissonance. One the one hand, there is certainly a belief that we shouldn't just let people die because they can't pay, hence you will get treatment at an emergency room if it's a serious condition and go bankrupt, but there is also a belief that it should be a free market system.
I'm still appalled that the Obama administration didn't seem to even try to make a moral argument for reforming health-care. Also where was the argument that health care availability is a huge obstacle for entrepreneurs? I think public sector health-care would be great for the kind of small business creation everybody talks about wanting.
There was a Jehovah's Witness girl in my sister's class who would step outside the classroom when the rest of the class said the pledge. She also had to go to the library when there were birthday parties in class.
I think public sector health-care would be great for the kind of small business creation everybody talks about wanting.
I'm pretty sure you only think that because you're a socialist.
I love the national anthem because of the story: Francis Scott Key stuck on an enemy boat attacking his country, trying to tell how the fight was going from the glimpses he could catch from the rockets (essentially fireworks) set off to illuminate the battle. I also love that it's set to the tune of the song (To Anacreon in Heaven) of a London drinking and (probably) sex club.
I also think it's weird to pledge allegiance to a flag first, not to the ideals of the country.
Oh, yeah, that totally bugged me when I was a kid so I stopped saying it sometime in middle school onward.
I also love that it's set to the tune of the song (To Anacreon in Heaven) of a London drinking and (probably) sex club.
I thought it was God Save the Queen.
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Wait, or is it My Country Tis of Thee that's set to God Save the Queen? Am confused about our Loyalty patriotic songs.
I don't really remember thinking much about the pledge in school, we did it everyday in elementary school, I can't remember in middle school, and I know we didn't do it in high school. It was just part of the routine, and it didn't mean much because of that.
God Save the Queen.
She ain't no human being.
(sorry)
I thought it was God Save the Queen.
I think that's My Country Tis of Thee
My Country Tis of Thee is the same as God Save the Queen.
