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"We're going to have insurance for everybody..There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can't pay for it, you don't get it. That's not going to happen with us... They can expect to have great health care. It will be in a much simplified form. Much less expensive and much better..."
-Donald J. Trump
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You are too stupid to breed.
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)...
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,855 posts)csziggy
(34,136 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,855 posts)LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)You dumb bastards that voted for Turnip deserve to be removed from the gene pool either way!
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)everything.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Nwb2017 an hour ago
this plan literally kills two birds with one stone, reduces the number of rural americans through inadequate health care, and undermines the GOP future. Its a shame it had to come to that, but hey, elections have consequences.
Amimnoch
(4,558 posts)Traditionally, and throughout history the "haves".. be it a despot, a king, an emperor, or oligarch ruler have had need of the underclass in order to maintain their status. As manufacturing plants require fewer and fewer people to work within the walls, as service places are getting more automated, as even the automobiles they drive (or are driven in) become more automated, eventually there will be a point where the rich, or the "haves" will no longer have use for the have nots.
Those who are outside of the 1-10% are becoming obsolete, and I suspect that's probably at the core on why many of them really don't give that much of a care about the environment. When the time comes, they just let the peasants die off, and they'll have their technology and hand selected cronies to keep them going.
Volaris
(10,270 posts)Themselves?
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,855 posts)to do all the crappy jobs that even the middle class won't do. So getting rid of the poor isn't really a good idea in the long run.
I will say that I'm considering writing a story in which all those who are out of work for some period of time are put into resettlement communities, and if they still don't find work, they end up as fertilizer.
Permanut
(5,604 posts)kind of a "Soylent Brown" theme.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,855 posts)As always happens with me I get a pretty decent story idea, and have no clue what sort of a plot is needed.
Do I have the soon-to-be-fertilizer people revolt? Do I show it as a kind of Utopia because there's full employment? Do I have some of the rich people get thrown into the fertilizer group? Should aliens show up and simply harvest all humans? There's probably some vastly better plot possibility than any of those. Sigh.
I often say that if I could sell story ideas for a dime a dozen I'd be rich.
Permanut
(5,604 posts)your posts are among the brightest spots here on DU among a LOT of brilliant posts. Okay, so I'm a PoindexterOglethorpe fan.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,855 posts)You have my permission to start the inaugural chapter of the PoindexterOglethorpe fan club.
Lyricalinklines
(367 posts)or maybe it's just my perception.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Lyricalinklines
(367 posts)in any sort of elderly services and parents happen to work in health care could conceivably lose a job or two, any and all health care/elderly care for grandparents as well as healthcare for all.
The only benefactors of this scheme will be a measure of the top 1%.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)"I don't need it! I don't want it! I'm gonna live forever!"
Idiots indeed.
rpannier
(24,329 posts)Everything is a gigantic crisis with simple solutions
Budget deficit? Tax cuts
Crime? Build more prisons
Unhappy with something the government is doing or responsible for? Privatize it
GallopingGhost
(2,404 posts)is swimming with their pants on.
Augiedog
(2,546 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)dalton99a
(81,485 posts)Yes, they are too stupid to breed.
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)I'm too smart for my own good.
american_ideals
(613 posts)No need to bring back the dark specter of eugenics, breeding, and the gene pool. That was a dark time in our history.