At 11:05 AM 4/4/2012, Wojtek S wrote:
>Michael S:"You know the old joke about the unfortunate statistician --
>drowned in a creek whose average depth was six inches?"
>
>[WS:] One may also tell the story of an ancient philosopher Al Jahiz
>who died crushed by the falling books piled up in his library. In the
>end, it is not Platonic ideas but the material world that surrounds us
>that matters.
>
>
>One can compare the US polity to the ideal democracy and reach the
>conclusion that the US politics is but a shadow on a cave's wall and
>the shades of that shadow do not really matter vis a vis the ideal.
>But then one may lose one's Medicare coverage and Social Security
>check as a result of Republican tax cuts catch a cold while sleeping
>under the bridge and perish.
>
>I do not particularly care about Obamacare - it does not affect me one
>way or another. But politically I support it, because its overturn
>will have the domino effect on other social programs. I will be
>eligible for Medicare and Social Security in a few years and I want
>them to be there when I become eligible. That is why I root for
>Democrats and urge everyone to do likewise.
>
>Wojtek
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