Clearing up a common confusion

[blamebrampton]

This is a nation with SOCIALISED medicine:


This is a nation with SOCIALIST medicine: 


SOCIALISED =/=SOCIALIST
and, just to be absolutely clear,
SOCIALIZED =/= SOCIALIST

Please feel free to print this out and distribute it if you find yourself listening to the sort of people that have seen me screaming at the news coverage all week.

I swear, if I was an American and some of the Libertarian loonies leading 'community' concerns came to my door, I would scream: 'COMMUNIST CONCERNS?? AIEEEEE! Fetch me the shotgun, Fido! Time to shoot me some trespassing Reds!'

Admittedly, this raises the questions why an American me would have a dog trained in gun fetching, and speak like Christopher Walken taking the piss, but let's just move on.

Comments

[niennas-gift.livejournal.com]

Don't get me started. No seriously. Don't. get. me. started. My country has some of the most ignorant - and dangerous - people of anywhere I can imagine. If this health care legislation doesn't pass, I will be unspeakably pissed off.

Don't you love how we fling around terms we don't understand?

[raitala.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well, everyone knows accuracy is just gay! ;)

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

It does make me tremendously happy, yes ;-)

[kirinin.livejournal.com]

OMGawesome reply.

-K

[raitala.livejournal.com]

Glad it tickled you :)

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I comfort myself in the knowledge that, despite the assertions of your rubbish televisual media (print still has bastions of excellence), most Americans are sane, thoughtful and compassionate people.

Now if we can just convince politicians to turn the bloody television off!

And every country has its morons. Yours just has more cameras to capture them. Still, Barney Frank brought great joy to my week. I'm thinking of sending him a thank you card.

(BTW, *hugs!* OH! And the post office found my package, it is wending its way back here, and I will send it to you again!)

[sarcasticpixie.livejournal.com]

Barney Frank's one of mine! I promise, Massachusetts is a different kind of state. We've had mandatory health care reforms in place since July 1, 2007, and while the execution's been messy (it's a combination of employment legislation and low-income guidelines and it's what I spend my days dealing with), the idea behind it is noble.

Barney also claimed that he couldn't finish the Starr Report because it had too much hetero sex in it.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I think I am in love.

[sarcasticpixie.livejournal.com]

Have some more of Barney's greatest hits:

"In Massachusetts after four years of same-sex marriages, it's become a very boring issue, except to the people who are in same-sex marriages (and probably life being what it is to a few of them). Frankly, if you're a straight person in Massachusetts, this has had no impact on you, unless you live next door to a couple of lesbians and you had to buy them a present."

"I will confess that I am not a regular reader of Iranian-issued fatwahs. And probably one of the ones I missed was the one where they threatened devastation against Prague. We plan to spend several billion dollars to protect the Czech Republic against Iran. That’s either a great waste of money or a very belated way to make up for Munich."

The Speaker: "The gentleman from Massachusetts will state his point of order."
Barney: "Mr. Speaker, would it be in order to call the gentleman from Pennsylvania a muddle-headed know-nothing?"
(The Speaker consults the parliamentarian.)
The Speaker: "Um, no."
Barney: "Thankyouverymuch, Mr. Speaker."

[ladyjaneva.livejournal.com]

hahahaha!
Sounds like a really unusual guy.
But wasn't there something about the two big banks (?) with the funny names like people, Fanny Mae and Freddie something, and him being involved in saying that everything was ok until the shit hit the fan?