Posted by pixies chick at jerry1.healthpartners.com on June 14, 2002 at 16:55:42:
In Reply to: I love when people justify half their arguments... posted by TheMadSpin on June 14, 2002 at 15:10:12:
: By attacking people who believe in the right to own a weapon.
: Half the stuff you went over was some barb about a handgun owner.
THAN I am in taking your gun away.
Of course it's parody, and exaggeration - but LOOK at it -- it's at whose expense? This is the worst sort of humor -- this is humor at the expense of the poor, young, immigrant, needy. How very sophisticated to take the stance that these are the source of one's pain. If you don't like hearing other languages, or having your tax dollars going to community pools, well please accept that you are a curmudgeon, and expect the ghosts of Christmas past to plague your dreams at some time in your life.
It's nothing against someone else having a different POV - that's cool. I can accept that my version of reality isn't the only one. But pissed because the guy at the fastfood place doesn't speak English? WHY? this hurts you how?
BTW -- I PAY taxes. I WORK. And I had the fun of working in Public Health, and having no budget for amenities like a phone line or rent. I got to do nutrition and health screenings on poor inner city kids in borrowed church & rec center basements, with no internet, or email, or copy machines. Try and get a doctor to take you seriously when you can't fax that hemoglobin result or growth grid over and you want him to know that this kid is potentially DYING.
And try getting the parents to respect you when they see you mopping the floors and hauling the furniture around because we sure can't afford a janitor.
But it would be a waste of tax money to actually have a facility to do this in, right?