…nearly every other aspect of your life is within your control. And as long as you don’t majorly screw up, insist on making the right decisions, and surround yourself with quality people, your life will forever be superior to those on the left no matter how much they try to improve theirs at the expense of yours.
I know what you’re trying to say, but the macro-environment affects my micro-environment. I am, however, a simple soul, which is a good thing.
Uncommon sense.
Those of us who have mastered skills, actually enjoy employing them.
That Blind Melon song comes to mind, “I like my life this way” or some such.
Most people are living very nice lives inside their own “micro climate”.
That is what has driven the doom monger bonkers.
Now as the byproducts of the deficiencies of our kleptocrats come to impact the taxpayers, those increased bills, reduced services and lost freedoms..
People are looking outside their bubbles and getting quite irate.
Thank you Obama.
Thanks to the unchecked lunacy of the Democrats I predict an abrupt course correction coming to both the Democrats and the RINO’s.
Politicians and bureaucrats, always the first to forget, that no one really needs them.
Bang on,Cappie.And as an added bonus,we get to mock the mentally ill kleptocrats and general losers who inflitrate every leftard org. with simple little things like “how is that coal-burning car working out for you”,and then standing back and laughing your a@@ off at some of the dumbest looks ever seen.
I’m not so sure.
Our micro-environment is all well and good until they bust down our door look for our unregistered guns, or take our kids away from us because we have not taught the the correct ideology, or let us die in a waiting line because healthcare is a universal right and no one should have access to better healthcare just because they are gainfully employed and productive.
Not with you on this one Captain.
Well, like many another Canadian, I have been cultivating my jardin the last few days as Voltaire would wish (oh, my back!), but I can’t believe this is enough. I am still amazed at how individuals can make a difference, especially given the indifference by the broad masses at doing political work.
Boxers or briefs? Keep it in the pants!
The Captain’s ideas were common in 1914 among the self satisfied burghers of England, France, Italy, Austria-Hungary and Germany. The survivors of the subsequent upheavals reflected that perhaps they should have paid more attention to larger issues.
It might not hurt us to pay some attention ourselves. Declines usually cease being enjoyable pretty quickly.
There’s another term for this. Its called “hiding”.
Not necessarily a bad idea, but hard to pull off in an era of ubiquitous surveillance and ever-increasing official intrusiveness.
Example, whatcha gonna do when you require an internal passport to travel from Minnesota to Nebraska? That’s going to happen if the Feds get all worked up about guys from Utah showing up to face down the BLM in Nevada. It’ll be a safety thing, y’know.
How about the good ol’ gas ration card? That’s a perennial favorite of regimes facing public unrest. My old man remembers them from the 1940’s.
So while I applaud your determination not to let the Lefties pick your pocket and harsh your mellow, it might be good to have a list of things to do in case Something Bad might happen, and some stuff put aside to do it with.
And no, I don’t recommend posting your list on the Intertubes, even if the list is:
1. Run.
2. Hide.
3. Repeat as necessary.
Because = ubiquitous surveillance.
no one should have access to better healthcare just because they are gainfully employed and productive …or a hockey hero, or politician, or other member of the privileged gentry…but of course it happens every day. Nobody said life was fair and just.
You might have missed my point. I believe that healthcare, like housing, food, and education, is something that you should be able to buy for yourself with your own hard earned money, not doled out by the government through waiting lists and restrictions on medical services.
It’s fair enough to have the government provide a certain minimum, like they do with shelter, food and education, but it’s not reasonable to make it illegal to buy better healthcare for yourself if you can and want to. I can buy a better house for myself, better food, and send my kids to a better school. Is healthcare a more basic human right than food, shelter, and education?
The government will not be too upset if an “acceptable number” of people die while waiting for their bypass or cancer treatment. Too bad those people don’t have the choice of spending their own money to save their own lives, because in our “one tier” system, they are not allowed to do that in Canada.
Yeah, they can go and take their money to the US, I know… for now.
So, yeah, access to healthcare is an important part of my microenvironment.
“they can go and take their money to the US”
yup, and many do just that… why is that a problem?
Why shouldn’t Canadians be able to spend their own money, in their own country, for their own healthcare. Do we want all this money to come out of the country to feed the USA extremely overpriced medical system? And the aftercare of any serious problem treated in the US is an issue. It’s one thing to have your heart transplant in the US, but when you get back to Canada, and require regular frequent doctors visits and blood tests, who does that?
Again..Why shouldn’t Canadians be able to spend their own money, in their own country, for their own healthcare. One reason only. The Canada Health Act.
As far as I know, there are three countries in the world where the state controls all access to healthcare and makes it illegal to provide healthcare outside the public system: North Korea, Cuba, and Canada. Every one of the 30 Western (and some non-Western) countries that provide better healthcare than Canada have a two tier, public and private, system.
old Lori said: “Why shouldn’t Canadians be able to spend their own money, in their own country, for their own healthcare.”
You mean BUY an Xray of your broken leg instead of waiting in line for hoursandhoursandhoursandhours at the filthy local emergency room?
Butbutbut… you’d be JUMPING THE LINE!!! That’s INHUMAN! How can you suggest such a thing?!
You beast!
Good thing about Obamacare, now you ungrateful line jumpers won’t be able to drive to Buffalo and pay money instead of waiting like you’re supposed to!