Post #16636 by kahukini on Tue, Dec 17, 2002 5:42 PM

i had too many doobies last weekend. or was that boobies? but doesn't politics make more sense when you're drunk and stoned? does for me.

i'm sure most tiki folks are liberal, that's why i posted this here (and of course I'm stating the obvious - but if you don't want to read a thread about politics don't click on one so named :)

regarding the education stuff. no I haven't thought it through. it's just a principle we should work towards, like free energy and other star trek concepts. Of course anyone should be able to pay $40k/year to go to princeton if they want, just like anyone can fly to so cal for a boob job and a tummy tuck, but the concept of making people individually pay for education and healthcare in a rich capitalist society only serves to further create vastly disparate economic classes, as education and health are necessary both for access and to have a reasonable chance at competing. To buy low and sell high is no more your natural right anymore than it is my natural right as a free animal on this planet to knock you over the head and take what I want for free. For a healthy society we have to inculcate values of respect for one another, and that can't be done when the society is grossly unfair.