Just discovered my most "personal responsibility", libertarianish GOP neighbor

Critters2

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Fri Oct-09-09 07:10 PM
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Just discovered my most "personal responsibility", libertarianish GOP neighbor

has to have "family care" health insurance because he's self-employed and can't afford private insurance premiums. I'm glad his family has insurance. But how do people like this not see the irony?

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Ruby the Liberal

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Fri Oct-09-09 07:16 PM
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1. Because they live by the mantra, "I got mine, yer on yer own"

Boggles the mind, no?

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Critters2

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Fri Oct-09-09 07:19 PM
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3. It does indeed. He even rants about Obama's "government takeover of health care".

All I can do is shake my head.

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ejpoeta

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Fri Oct-09-09 08:28 PM
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5. one might tell the guy it's a good thing he isn't on any sort of government healthcare!!

but it sucks because you want to say that, but then again, you are just glad they have the ability to get the insurance. uggh!!

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Critters2

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Fri Oct-09-09 08:29 PM
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7. Yeah. I'm glad his family is covered. I just think everyone should be! nt

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EFerrari

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Fri Oct-09-09 07:17 PM
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2. Libertarians seem to be conservatives too dysfunctional to belong to a group. n/t

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dhpgetsit

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Fri Oct-09-09 07:32 PM
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4. For all their talk about personal responsibility

They often fail apply it to their own personal lives.

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emulatorloo

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Fri Oct-09-09 08:29 PM
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6. The Onion nailed the libertarians here:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/32825

Libertarian Reluctantly Calls Fire Department
APRIL 21, 2004 | ISSUE 40�16

CHEYENNE, WY�After attempting to contain a living-room blaze started by a cigarette, card-carrying Libertarian Trent Jacobs reluctantly called the Cheyenne Fire Department Monday.

"Although the community would do better to rely on an efficient, free-market fire-fighting service, the fact is that expensive, unnecessary public fire departments do exist," Jacobs said. "Also, my house was burning down."

Jacobs did not offer to pay firefighters for their service

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Canuckistanian

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Fri Oct-09-09 08:41 PM
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8. Give him the "Libertarian Purity Test"

http://www.bcaplan.com/cgi-bin/purity.cgi

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Warren Stupidity

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Fri Oct-09-09 08:43 PM
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9. Family Care == S-CHIP?

Perhaps you might like to explain the term as it was new to me.

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Critters2

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Fri Oct-09-09 08:57 PM
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10. ...

Edited on Fri Oct-09-09 08:58 PM by Critters2

FamilyCare offers healthcare coverage to parents living with their children 18 years old or younger. FamilyCare also covers relatives who are caring for children in place of their parents.

From the FamilyCare website: http://www.familycareillinois.com/

Basically, it's for parents of kids who are on All-Kids, the Illinois version of S-CHIP. So, this guy's kids are on S-CHIP, and he and his wife are on FamilyCare.

The Socialists!

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