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originally posted by: Ultralight
a reply to: rockintitz
If you pay nothing for your cost of insurance, someone else is.
originally posted by: Hefficide
In other words, the very people who FOUGHT to gut the ACA are now raising Hell that it isn't doing what it was supposed to... even though everyone knows it was sabotaged from the beginning.
originally posted by: usernameconspiracy
I'm fine with that. Sounds like a worthy way for my property taxes to be spent.
originally posted by: Hefficide
As for paying for you and your own... A convenient perspective but one that ignores the fact that you benefit from things paid for by public money every single day of your life. Infrastructure. So, what you're actually saying is "I get free stuff cuz reasons, but the rest of you need to stop robbing me..."
originally posted by: Hefficide
a reply to: burdman30ott6
Burd... just look at basic architecture. The middle benefits from a strong foundation and if one wants to build soaring spires - both a solid foundation and a solid frame are required.
The same applies landscaping, cooking, art and every other thing I can bring to mind - a sound foundation or base is imperative to the quality of the finished work.
Yet we've been sold a bill of goods. We've been told that if we just focus on the spire - it will somehow buttress all that which is beneath it. I am pretty sure you've got the basic knowledge to know that buttressing only works at the base and not at the pinnacle.
What I am saying is that the best bet for a solid middle is to make sure the bottom is sound. This was the key aspect of the golden age of the mid to late 1940's and 1950's. Almost everyone had enough, most had more than they needed and a few had way too much. That is now totally askew.
Backward Bill, Backward Bill,
He lives way up on Backward Hill,
Which is really a hole in the sandy ground
(But that's a hill turned upside down).
Backward Bill's got a backward shack
With a big front porch that's built out back.
You walk through the window and look out the door
And the cellar is up on the very top floor.
Backward Bill he rides like the wind
Don't know where he's going but sees where he's been.
His spurs they go "neigh" and his horse it goes "clang,"
And his six-gun goes "gnab," it never goes "bang."
Backward Bill's got a backward pup,
They eat their supper when the sun comes up,
And he's got a wife named Backward Lil,
"She's my own true hate," says Backward Bill.
Backward Bill wears his hat on his toes
And puts on his underwear over his clothes.
And come every payday he pays his boss,
And rides off a-smilin' a-carryin' his hoss.