Thank You Republicans (OT)

Other than that, no I'm not asking for anything except the retirement benefits I've paid into all my life.

Editors' Note: November 23, 1993, Tuesday An article on Oct. 1, reporting on Senate testimony by Hillary Rodham Clinton about health care, included a passage about former Gov. Richard D. Lamm of Colorado. It said Mr. Lamm "drew widespread antagonism when he said in 1984 that the elderly, if ill, 'have got a duty to die and get out of the way.' " Similar characterizations of Mr. Lamm's speech of March 27, 1984, were published soon after it was given, and have appeared periodically. But that version of Mr. Lamm's remarks is a distortion, as Governor Lamm complained in 1984. He said then that insufficient attention to detail by the news media had led to a misinterpretation. An editorial in The Times on March 31, 1984, and articles on April 1, April 4, June 30 and Sept. 5 of that year reported on criticism generated by his speech or included accounts of his statements, but noted that his remarks had been misconstrued. Nevertheless incorrect accounts appeared in The Times on March 29, 1984; April 1, 1984; April 18, 1984; May 11, 1984; Jan. 5, 1985; Jan. 18, 1985; Aug. 18, 1985, and Aug. 20, 1985. In a letter dated Oct. 8, 1993, Mr. Lamm provided excerpts from the 1984 speech, in which he spoke philosophically about the terminally ill of any age, about the extraordinary costs of high-technology medicine and about the ability of medical science to stave off death far beyond considerations of quality of life. After saying that society should be talking about the ethical implications, Mr. Lamm said, according to the excerpts: "We've got a duty to die and get out of the way with all of our machines and artificial hearts and everything else like that and let the other society, our kids, build a reasonable life." In his letter last month, Mr. Lamm wrote that he never said "the elderly or the terminally ill have a duty to die," and he added, "I was essentially raising a general statement about the human condition, not beating up on the elderly."

"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." - Plutarch

,Plutarch was no doubt refering to slavery and the increasing ratio of slaves to freemen, which was always a concern of the Roman aristocracy,for obvious reasons

or get out of the country

So what about increasing numbers of workers who can't make ends meet, unemployed workers and the economic oligarchies (individuals and companies) who continue to increase their proportion of total wealth?

Yet are they like number 4 in GDP? And a high standard of living too.

Unfortunately some are also calling themselves welfare looting scumbag leaching thieves and are confessing to being wholly anti-American: so be it.