This makes for interesting reading: Gates Lied

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But the evidence strongly suggests that it was Gates who had the pre-fabricated narrative in his head. And that narrative was that a racist white cop was confronting him because he was black.

Gates began peddling that theory immediately -- literally. He shouted to the bystanders who had gathered before his house upon hearing the commotion, "This is what happens to black men in America!" He threatened a lawsuit and he told anyone who would listen that he was arrested for being black.

Like Woody Allen seeing anti-Semitism everywhere in Annie Hall, Gates projected his own prejudice onto Sgt. Crowley. The moment Sgt. Crowley appeared in his sight, Gates "knew" why: racism.

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The evidence against Gates' story is so compelling that on Monday the black mayor of Cambridge, Denise Simmons, said upon the release of the tapes, "I strongly support our commissioner Bob Haas." That would be Police Commissioner Robert Haas, who fully backs Crowley. Haas said yesterday, "the tapes speak for themselves."

In his Daily Beast interview, Gates said, "Well, the police report was an act of pure fiction. One designed to protect him, Sgt. Crowley, from unethical behavior. I was astonished at the audacity of the lies in the police report, and almost the whole thing from start to finish was just pure fabrication."

No, it wasn't.

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This episode was indeed a teaching moment, but the lesson is not what Gates envisioned. It is the lesson taught in David Mamet's Oleana and Philip Roth's The Human Stain. People conditioned to see others not as individuals but as representatives of a whole race or class will do exactly that. In the process, individuality is erased. There are no human-to-human encounters, but only larger clashes between races or classes. Every interaction between people of different races, even the most mundane or innocent, has a larger political meaning. All actions are seen through distorting lenses until the individuals involved disappear entirely and all that is left are blurred hues of dark and light.

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That is the world Henry Louis Gates Jr. seems to have created for himself. In that world, Officer James Crowley doesn't exist. The real James Crowley was hand-picked by a black police commissioner to teach new recruits how not to racially profile, tried to save the life of a black Boston Celtics star, and has the unqualified backing of the black officers who know and serve with him. The instant he was perceived through the eyes of Henry Louis Gates Jr., however, Officer James Crowley ceased to exist. In his place was White Officer Questioning An Innocent Black Man.

The lesson America ought to learn from this incident is that Gates' image of the world as a place in which individuals are little more than pawns in the greater historical conflict between the races is fatally misconceived. It is a projection of a hopelessly erroneous political theory that, from time to time, reality disproves in a grand way.

It is absurd to think that on Thursday President Hussein is hosting bigot Professor Gates and Sgt Crowley at the White House for a beer. What possibly could be discussed? How Sgt Crowley should have acted? How Sgt Crowley could have handled the situation better? I do hope Sgt Crowley speaks frankly with them. For the whole nation every citizen.

Even Colin Powell has chimed in saying adult supervision needed to prevail over what happened at Gates' house that day. What?

One other thing about last weeks press conference. It was so creepy. Every question seemed staged. From the person asking the question to passing the microphone from person to person as questions were asked. The Gates question seemed like the most staged question of all. It was asked last which also had the air of being on purpose.

What is funny is black elites like President Hussein and Professor Gates think they can not be racist because they don't have the power. Well they do have the power and they are flexing their muscles. The excerpt from Sowell about attorney General Holder dropping the charges against the black men who stood at a polling station in Philadelphia with clubs intimidating voters spoke volumes. Every election there are always stories of white police officers in some southern town intimidating black voters at polling stations. In the case of the Philadelphia thugs the evidence is actual film footage from the polling station. There is no doubt these men were committing a serious crime in denying citizens their fundamental right to vote was purely their intent. Holder dismissed the case. What a message to send.

The spin on all this is so ferocious, that it's funny. These guys, for whom shrieks of racism are their stock and trade, completely collapse when THEY are the ones shown to be racist.

And the dance they do to try and weasel out of that fact is unbelievably hilarious. It's prime Schadenfreude comedy. Better than the Stooges.

Yeah they are not even having the meeting inside. Sgt Crowley will be served his beer on a picnic bench outside the White House.

Another terrific article by VDH:

Our Angry Aristrocracy

Victor, being Victor, is way more polite that I am. These people are creeps, hangers-on, demagogues, and those who destroy this country for a vote if it suited them (and it often does). The trick to understanding the left – and thus freeing oneself from them – is to understand they don’t really give a shit about you. Look at it this way, if your parents really cared about you, would they want to keep you dependent on them?

Oh, and just as importantly, it doesn't make you an Albert Schweitzer by supporting these fiends. I think the portrait VDH did of the hypocrisy of the left and what probably motivates them is something that anyone can fall prey to. "What a good boy am I" must be such an incredibly seductive thing to think about oneself. It can cause people to over-estimate their own self worth and righteousness...even as the policies they use to boost their egos lay waste to whole segments of society. Quite a bargain.

Trying to get the president to save face because of his own stupidity and racism via a beer photo op is the state of race relations these days, at least from the left. The well-crafted and disingenuous sanctimony of the left has been officially been blown wide open by this event and their hypocrisy exposed even for the most insanely partisan person to notice. What to do about it? Well, don’t vote for these fiends, for one thing. And by all means, come to a true understanding of what racism is. It’s doing like either Gates, Obama, Pastor Wright or the most hardcore Southern slave owner would do: Pre-judge a person for ill because it’s convenient for your own economic or political power (or because you’re just ignorant and/or angry).

A lot of people are going to have a real problem mouthing the word "bigoted" in regards to Gates and Obama, but they showed a bigotry that was quite ugly. And even if a Gates-like exaggerated rage and self-righteous bigotry is politically expedient, it may also be the only way of thinking that some of these programmed people know. As Bruce Walker astutely pointed out, Obama is not a stupid man, but he’s not a knowledgeable one. Frankly, he’s quite misinformed and uneducated:

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Fourth, Barack Obama is simply not very knowledgeable, and it increasingly shows. This is not a rap on his intelligence or his efforts in school. Prestigious schools have become, in areas like law and social sciences, little more than re-education camps. His gaffes were ignored by the Leftist media during the campaign. If Dan Quayle had talked about our fifty-seven states, it would have been fodder for late night jokes forever. But the more Obama talks, the more obvious it becomes that he simply knows very little. As an example, he recently said that winning the war on terrorism would not be like World War Two, when Emperor Hirohito signed articles of surrender. Yet as even an amateur student of history knows, Hirohito did not sign the articles of surrender. The famous event on the Battleship Missouri was watched by the whole world. It was recorded on film. The Emperor was conspicuous by his absence. It was rather like last year when Obama talked about "the bomb" that fell on Pearl Harbor or his May 2009 comment about his uncle who helped liberate Auschwitz.

How to actually improve things in this country? Well, for starters, do exactly the opposite that these frauds and agitators are doing. That would be a very good start.

This article by Joseph Ashby is nothing short of brilliant.

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How to actually improve things in this country? Well, for starters, do exactly the opposite that these frauds and agitators are doing. That would be a very good start.

Some people might think you are half kidding there. Nah-ah. That's it. That's it right there, man. What these guys represent, I hate to say it, is some of the most elitist, evil, anti-american behavior and attitudes of all time. It's smug, hypocritical moralizing. WORSE than that which comes from the Christian right, which at least has a smattering of some kind of humility. Yeah, it's holier than thou, drives me nuts... but it's far less nut driving than the smug superior asshole elitist BETTER-than-thou jam. The stupid christians at least believe that we're all sinners.

Leftists are convinced of their own infallibility, and that makes them profoundly more irritating. I keep coming back to the GREAT image of the South Park episode where people like this put their heads between their legs and inhale deeply and rapturously of their own farts. That's EXACTLY how I see them.

To the point whenever I hear one on TV launch into their line of shit, I make that farting sound... followed by a long sniffff, then "mmmmmmmmm".

Obama just got some SERIOUS on the job training. I think that's a good thing. He knows now that he can't easily play that race card, and put one over on us. I like that some of his Wright/Community organizer shit got the smackdown. Maybe he'll learn fucking something. The job does change the man. That's for sure.

I only hope it doesn't take a terrorist attack for this guy to learn that his belly rolling national security policies are also completely wrong. And I hope it doesn't take a full-on economic collapse and a great depression II for him to learn that his economic policies are all wrong too.

I mean christ, why should we pay those kind of prices to teach our president leadership? This is what the American people get for putting somebody in there who didn't know what he was doing. And people said Sarah PALIN was over her head? Come on. She's a leader, through and through. Obama had some political charm with almost nothing to back it up that wasn't horrifyingly inadequate as a skillset to run the country.

Bush was no genius, but he put GREAT people in important positions. Obama is making any damnfool a "czar" and hoping that by simply appointing one, the problem will go away.

Leave it to the love of my life to call this whole Gates debacle for what it is.

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Yep. Ann (not Anne) hits another one out of the park. But in the end, this incident is still a victory for black racists. Gates wasn’t fired but the person who made the 911 call has received death threats. The officer barely made it out alive himself. Ann (not Anne) made a stunningly good point. What if this white police officer hadn’t had a perfectly lily-white pristine record? He would have been vilified and lost his job, on all the word of a black racist. And if there hadn’t been witnesses and other evidence that Gates was clearly a loon? Strange as it may seem, America – even in this day and age – would have still brought forth a lynching party. But it would have been a white guy at the end of the proverbial rope, aided and abetted by a stupid (bordering on fascist) media that doesn’t report the news but is instead an arm for leftist social policy manipulation.

This is not the direction Martin Luther King Jr. had in mind, or anyone else who wants true tolerance and equality. This dragon of black racism will be fed until stupid white liberals (and appeasement-type Bobby Jindals) will stand up and point out that teaching a dislike and distrust for an entire race of people (in this case white people) is racist. And it can’t be justified. It’s not about balancing out the fact of slavery. I had nothing to do with that era. And a lot of white people died to eradicate that practice. A lot of black people in Africa took part in that quite profitable practice. Racism is always about coming up with excuses for why one group of people can be treated differently than another. There really is no such thing as "reverse racism." It’s just plain, old, ugly racism that we’re talking about. In this case it was a racist Professor Gates and racist President Obama who stereotyped a white cop, publicly trying to lynch him, while ignoring the individuality of this person and totally whitewashing over the facts at hand. It will take more than a beer to fix this.

Here's a horrifying look at the future. It's just Glenn Beck discussing the Cash For Clunkers/Cars.gov web site. Video.

First the government starts firing CEOs, now it's going after the auto industry on the dealership level. Dealers who use this system become agents of the US government, and their computers actually become property of the US government while they are logged into the system. Kind of a chilling thought.

And this is what comes from giving an inch, and letting the government give you money or control your life.

Imagine when the friggin' HEALTH CARE shit comes about. Because it's not going to take a rocket scientist to figure out that we're going to have the same exact thing on the CITIZEN level, when it comes to health care. If you do the government option, there'll probably be a web site just like this, and when you go to get info on your health care or whatever, you'll be signing away your privacy rights, and your computer will be government property just like this.

Holy Crap it is worse than just the Dealerships computers. Any body can use that Cars.gov site to see what kind of deal you can get on the trade in. So who ever logs into that system legally the government now has access to your computer i.e. cookie and cache files can be down loaded that the Government can track your computer. That is small potatoes to the fact that in the agreement the government and foriegn governments own what is on your computer by signing into the system.

This is a total fascist state. Absolutely incredible and frightening what is happening.

One of my buddies actually signed in to see what they could get for his wifes car. How it works is that the government tells you what car you are allowed to buy. I will have to inform my friend the Government now owns the information on his computer.

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This is a total fascist state. Absolutely incredible and frightening what is happening.

I can’t tell you what’s going to happen next. I’m sworn to secrecy. But this guy probably could. Better yet, here’s an excerpt from Umberto Eco’s "Ur-Fascism."

Here's a good bit, and there's all kinds of implications here for propaganda, hero-worship, and just government getting out of control, based (I think) on people forgetting that drinking somebody's Kool-aid is not really in their best interest. But it happens all the time. People fall for the bait of the demagogues and are moved along as surely as cattle are herded into stables.

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13. Ur-Fascism is based upon a selective populism, a qualitative populism, one might say.

In a democracy, the citizens have individual rights, but the citizens in their entirety have a political impact only from a quantitative point of view -- one follows the decisions of the majority. For Ur-Fascism, however, individuals as individuals have no rights, and the People is conceived as a quality, a monolithic entity expressing the Common Will. Since no large quantity of human beings can have a common will, the Leader pretends to be their interpreter. Having lost their power of delegation, citizens do not act; they are only called on to play the role of the People. Thus the People is only a theatrical fiction. There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.

Sounds exactly like he was talking about our idiot president's staged "town hall" meetings.

Here’s an interesting article titled "Roots of Fascism." It starts out with a couple quotes. No, the first one isn’t Obama, but the similarities are obvious:

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We National Socialists are enemies, deadly enemies, of the present capitalist system with its exploitation of the economically weak ... and we are resolved under all circumstances to destroy this system. -- Gregor Strasser, National Socialist theologian...

And this definitely sounds like the vapid "third way" promises of Obama when the author of that article says:

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During the German election campaign in 1932, Hitler's National Socialists ran against both Marxism and, the American system, or high capitalism, promising to take the best from each and create, a new socialist man.

Fascists, socialists, leftist Democrats, or whomever, are always promising some magical "third way" that nobody in all of history has every thought of to, well, get something for nothing and avoid all the real-world stuff like cause-and-effect, needing to work hard, etc. Here’s another timely quote:

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If classical liberalism spells individualism, Fascism spells government. -- Benito Mussolini...

At least the man was honest about that. And that’s the scary part about our society right now. We’ve lost our healthy suspicion of government and, instead, (and tragically) automatically assign "good" to government itself. Many may disagree with that bit of government action and prefer that one over there, but the consensus is now that government can, and should, solve all our problems. That’s not the only way for Marxism, socialism, or fascism to walk in the door, but when a country is at peace, it’s probably the only real chance it has.

I mean, this whole friggin’ article sounds exactly like it’s describing Obama:

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In his, The Coming American Fascism, 1936, Lawrence Dennis—noted American economist and anti-Semite—boasted that classic liberalism—that is, 18th-century Americanism—would soon become a laughing stock, and that, liberal norms of law or constitutional guarantees of private rights, would be replaced by fascism, that is, the enterprises of public welfare and social control. And, Dennis stated further...

[Fascism] does not accept the liberal dogmas as to the sovereignty of the consumer or trader in the free market.... Least of all does it consider that market freedom, and the opportunity to make competitive profits, are rights of the individual. Such decisions should be made by a 'dominant class', an 'elite'.

Taking over banks and car companies is just a start for these…err…fascists. Even this guy from Spain sounds Obamaesque:

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I am proposing the integrated State, which will bring economic justice, and which will say with due authority: no more strikes, no more lock-outs, no more usury, no more starvation wages, no more criminal conspiracies against full production, no more capitalist abuses.

... if this be the Fascist State, then I proudly declare myself a Fascist!
Calvo Sotelo, from a speech made to the Cortes, Spain, 1936.

True, Obama does no yet using such blatant language. But if you haven’t figured this out yet, he’s not a "moderate." He’s not some kind of post-racial candidate. He’s none of that. He’s a radical leftist. Although you have to do only the least of extrapolation, inside of "spreading the wealth around" and his hostility to the free market, you see that Obama is a true brother of the likes of Calvo Sotelo. Yeah, of course, it makes sense now that he’s all back-slapping smiles with Hugo Chavez and shows nothing but contempt for the British. We have the real deal here and he snuck in under the wire, although he didn’t fool me for a moment other than that he’s more radical that I had even imagined.

And, basically, this is the model of society as described by today’s Democrats:

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The mainspring of the socialist ideas that arose under the combined influence of the Industrial and the French Revolution was the conviction that the uncontrolled concentration of wealth and unbridled competition were bound to lead to increasing misery and crises, and that the system must be replaced by one in which the organization of production and exchange would do away with poverty and oppression and bring about a redistribution of the world's goods on a basis of equality. .... Beyond the general conception of equality, socialist programmes and ideas differed in every respect. Not all of them even proposed to abolish private ownership of the means of production. -- Leszek Kolakowski, Main Currents of Marxism.

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It is a common mistake to regard National Socialism as a mere revolt against reason, an irrational movement without intellectual background. If that were so, the movement would be much less dangerous than it is. But nothing could be further from the truth or more misleading. The doctrines of National Socialism are the culmination of a long evolution of thought, a process in which thinkers who have had great influence far beyond the confines of Germany have taken part. Whatever one may think of the premises from which they started, it cannot be denied that the men who produced the new doctrines were powerful writers who left the impress of their ideas on the whole of European thought. Their system was developed with ruthless consistency. Once one accepts the premises from which it starts, there is no escape from its logic. It is simply collectivism freed from all traces of an individualist tradition which might hamper its realization.

A great shame lies at the doorstep of the Bobby Jindals of the world who do not openly reject the premises of the left. Those premises must be exposed, debunked, and thrown once again onto the trash heap of history. What is perhaps worse than a leftist Democrat are the appeasers/enablers such as John McCain and Lindsey Graham.

All this is consistent with Jonah Goldberg’s marvelous book "Liberals Fascism" in which he debunks how the left has erroneoulsy described fascism as a "conservative" thing.

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Fascists are socialists

First clue: the Nazis called themselves, The National Socialist German Workers Party, not, The National Capitalist German Plutocrats Party, and the National Socialists boasted that Hitler had created in Germany, the most modern socialist state in the world.

Fascism is but a sect of socialism. In Mussolini's early days, before his rise to power, many of his Marxist critics viewed his fascism as a curiosity and recognized it as more of a heresy from, rather than a mortal challenge to revolutionary Marxism. (See Agursky's, The Third Rome, 1963.)

In the first few paragraphs of Capital, Marx decreed private property to be the root cause of capitalism and, thereby, the root cause of evil, and no self-respecting Marxist-socialist will ever let go that cardinal article of faith. And therein resides the critical difference between Marxist-socialism and fascist-socialism: Marxism prohibits the private ownership of property, and fascism does not - which is the ultimate heresy to Marxists and thereby inspired the unbridgeable and often violent schism between Marxism and fascism which has lasted until this day. (Later, more on how this schism came about.)

During the 1920s and 30s, because such little practical difference existed between fascists and Bolsheviks, critics of Hitler's National Socialism routinely called it, National Bolshevism. The Bolshevists, stung by being throw on the same theological pile with fascists, contrived the agent theory of fascism, and decreed through the Comintern that the international Marxist propaganda machine should immediately associate fascism with capitalism, and, thereby, per formal Stalinist/Leninist dogma, fascism became, the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinist, and most imperialist elements of finance capital. The machine acted with such vigor and lasting effect that even today people wrongly perceive fascism as a necessary attribute of capitalism, and critics of the socialist gospel get tagged as fascists.

Remember this when you witness just how hostile the Democrats are to private property and how they see the greatest good always and forever stemming from things that are "public," when things are socialized. And we're marching there in itty-bitty increments. Hey, who doesn't like public parks? But parks are not the problem. No country ever went fascist because of large public areas. But it does go fascist or socialist when there is a deep resentment of private property, individualism, individiual freedom, and free enterprise. And these socialist-fascist Democrats are hostile to all those things and, like Marx, see the greatest good in all things "public," such as nationalized health care.

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Ernst Roehm, a dedicated socialist, leader of the SA, second only to Hitler in power in the National Socialist Party, in a letter to a friend, observed how often his street thugs switched back and forth between Roehm's National Socialist gangs and the Communist gangs, uncertain on whose side they rightly belonged.

In his, Road to Serfdom, Hayek remarks upon how, during the 1930s, the propagandists of both parties recognized the relative ease with which a young communist could be converted into a Nazi or vice versa and how university professors in the U.S. and Britain noticed that students returning from study in Germany could not decide whether they were Marxists or fascists, but were certain only that they hated, Western Civilization.

People now return from American universities with the same condition.

As the Neo-Marxist in control in the United States continue to erode our civil liberties I came across this image that claims to be his birth certificate not from Hawaii but from Kenya.

Ha ha ha this is funny if it is true:

One day I expect the tide to really turn, and instead of people defending bloated software with a vengeance, they will defend bloated, scientologist, anal-probing government. That seems to be coming in stages but is not quite all-the-way here yet. But I think the radicalism of the leftists is becoming more mainstream, even if expressed now by habit of thought in people rather than table-pounding radicalism. But then, that’s the point of being radical, to move the goal posts fast and hard and make "normal" something different from what it was yesterday. In some respects, this is a normal and good part of life. We humans thrive on change, innovation, and just plain novelty.

But the "change" and novelty that the left offers is noxious, at best. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t seductive. We’re all amenable to looking to smoothing over the harshness of life. And, in fact, by coming together as humans in common causes, we’re generally safer than we are when in a state of anarchy. Inherent to human culture is that trade-off between freedom and security. For people of honest and genuine goodwill, that is what the big debates in politics are all about, or should be about. But you can’t trust either Barney Frank or John McCain to stick to this point. Politics is inherently about getting elected, not necessarily about honestly, forthrightly, and bravely facing the inherent issues of self-government, freedom, security, and human nature itself. To find a politician who isn’t a demagogue, who isn’t promising the "security" part of the equation without honestly addressing the "freedom" part of it is very rare indeed. But once in a while a Reagan, Newt, or other wise person comes along to bring this issue front and center. In the meantime, what we typically see is an orgy of ugly demagoguing as dishonest and disingenuous politicians simply play us for fools. They play on our desire to escape the harshness of life, even while they simply transfer that harshness to other areas of our lives.

We need to be smarter than that. We need to be not so easily manipulated by demagogues, class warfare artists, race baiters, and just general political parental wanna-be’s. We have three choices of who we can depend on in this life: God, ourselves, or some Soviet-style commissar. The only indignity greater than meeting competitive reality head-on and finding yourself lacking is having some government commissar or agent tell you where you can live, what kind of car you can drive, when and if you can get health care, what you can eat, where you can work, etc. And unless we wake up and understand the inherent indignities of such an arrangement it won’t be long until we begin to demonize others who represent freedom, who remind us how far we have caved and been enslaved and sold out our personhood. We might wake up one day and call people such as Sarah Palin a "cunt" and celebrate our own ignorance in the guise of t-shirts and other subservient, anti-human ways. That is the culture that the left always brings. You begin to defend your own prison.

Ain't it the truth, brother.

I'm going through this right now. I lost my health insurance. So if the stupid ridiculous Obama plan goes through, I'll have something. And something is better than nothing.

It's all a matter of how much freedom I'm willing to sacrifice. Same goes for the people who get offers of free money. If you're POOR, free money sounds fucking awesome, and freedom schmeedom. They don't care that free money really isn't free. They certainly won't be paying for it. Some demonized rich white bastard will be.

No democrat who believes the lying asshole politicians is going to go, no wait, these are my countrymen, not my enemies... it's not fair they should pay for me. That's a level of character that doesn't often figure in.

Part of the whole game, is that victims believe they'll never amount to shit. They've been browbeaten into that mindset. This makes them desperate, and more than willing to be led.

If the economy was doing fine, and I still had my own healthcare, I'd still be pissed off at insurance companies for high costs and policies regarding preexisting conditions, but I'd DEFINITELY be in a better position to say screw you to government run health care. Which we all know is going to suck.