Cranked-Up Earbuds Next On Mayor Bloomberg’s Health Hit List

[bildozr]

I'm just trying to keep up with the maturity level of these threads.

 

[Corrosion of Conformity]

I'm just trying to keep up with the maturity level of these threads.

Go show the forum how much of a man you are and start another thread about alcohol.

 

[bildozr]

Go show the forum how much of a man you are and start another thread about alcohol.

Right after I go to the gym. I haven't posted about it on Facebook yet.

 

[PraXis]

I don't want to quote that pic again but holy shit. I can't stop laughing. Wow.

 

[Thundergod]

How are they even going to measure that????

 

[SteveGangi]

Well, that's the thing. If I'm gonna have to pay for your healthcare, I'm gonna need you to take better care of yourself.

That's the cupboard that the healthcare opened. Imagine we were hard core commie. Everyone pays and gets the exact same, no private insurance. At that point, heck yeah I am gonna make a law banning smoking. Call it conservative values in a commie environment.

Not unlike chronic adrenaline junkies that are always getting themselves stranded and need emergency evacuations from rugged terrain. Might cost $100,000 to get them down. Should they have to pay for that? I think so, but then where do you draw the line of a legitimately necessary rescue operation. Where do you draw the line of healthcare, in a commie environment. Manditory exercise programs, acai berry fitness stuff?

I know you guys have heard all of these arguments. The more our society is highly dependent on each other, the more that each individuals livelyhood is intertwined, the more it is intertwined. It's a downward sprial. Have fun at the manditory exercise programs, I'm gonna ditch class on that one.

I pay for my own healthcare through my job - Kaiser an HMO plan. I don't smoke (I quit). I very rarely drink and then only in small amounts. Whenever I get a check up, they tell me everything is fine. I still get exercise (but not as hard as I used to). Back then (in my late 40s to early 50s) I could still do 1-handed push-ups and 1-leg squats.

As far as me giving up anything or having anything banned because someone thinks it might cost them money in some far off hypothetical Commieland or just because they don't approve, then by damn, I don't want any sickly evolutionary rejects with bad genetics draining MY "system". I bet I am healthier and have more self discipline than those screaming about what I should do or give up. But I want it to be MY choice.

When it comes to MY freedoms or choices, saving them a few pennies doesn't mean shit to me.


Yeah. When all else fails, here comes that DAMN "your freedom is costing me money" crap.

 

[monkeyboy]

Bullshit...when your "personal responsibilities" wind up, in the long run, draining the system of money to provide healthcare then it become much more than "the nanny state is telling us how to live our lives meow meow meow !!! "

you can't have it both ways

Personally I don't think "socialism" is a bad word. I remember first learning about it in high school, the catholic high school i went to. It seemed right in line, to me, with all the things i was learning about jeebus...then again i fell for the jeebus bullshit too. Still don't think socialism is such a bad thing

Without the government meddling in the private sector in the first place it would never have lead to "draining the system" for peoples bad choices. Thats the problem with anything "state run." Too many damn hands in the cookie jar.

I fnid it strange that people are complaining that someone hurting their hearing puts a drain on the system and they think that by the system paying to educate and regulate it is any less of a drain.

Socialism isn't such a bad thing? There is a reason why the list of current socialist nations is smaller than the list of previously socialist nations.

 

[Dr. Arkam]

I fnid it strange that people are complaining that someone hurting their hearing puts a drain on the system and they think that by the system paying to educate and regulate it is any less of a drain.

Education and prevention are less expensive than treatment and care. Since this is being funded by the Dept of Health's fundraising arm, something that is designed for prevention and education programs like this, I don't see it as a drain at all.

Socialism isn't such a bad thing? There is a reason why the list of current socialist nations is smaller than the list of previously socialist nations.

He didn't say Socialism isn't a bad thing, he said it isn't a bad word. There's a difference between the way something is in theory and the way it is practiced in the real world. I can see why people, especially the less fortunate, would be attracted to the idea of Socialism, but I know that I don't want to live in a Socialist society.

 

[monkeyboy]

Education and prevention are less expensive than treatment and care. Since this is being funded by the Dept of Health's fundraising arm, something that is designed for prevention and education programs like this, I don't see it as a drain at all.



He didn't say Socialism isn't a bad thing, he said it isn't a bad word. There's a difference between the way something is in theory and the way it is practiced in the real world. I can see why people, especially the less fortunate, would be attracted to the idea of Socialism, but I know that I don't want to live in a Socialist society.

Good point, he did say the word wasn't bad. Just to clear it up, I am not against and educational campaign to put a spotlight on adolescent and young adult hearing loss. Hell, a lot of adults would learn a thing or three. I was just trying to point out that this particular mayor has taken some things a little too far in the past and this may just be his next over reach if it doesnt go as he planned.

 

[Dr. Arkam]

I can understand where you're coming from, to be honest since I left New York back in '98 I haven't paid much attention to the politics of the City, it's still my favorite place in the world but that's besides the point. All I know about Bloomberg is the soda thing, which I admit is kinda ridiculous but whatever.

 

[TOMMYTHUNDERS]

still not locked, huh?

 

[Dr. Arkam]

Nope, but I see they got rid of Joeys QC tread, that one had potential.

 

[PraXis]

Now Bloomcvnt is fvcking up coffee!

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/n...icate-coffee-orders.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0

 

[SteveGangi]

Now Bloomcvnt is fvcking up coffee!

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/n...icate-coffee-orders.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0

That shit will NEVER end.

Bloomberg makes our "slippery slope" case for us. It will NEVER end.

 

[Corrosion of Conformity]

Who drinks coffee with sugar anyway?

 

[Corrosion of Conformity]

P e O PL E WHO DONT lIE K COFFEE

 

[PraXis]

I have one coffee every morning and use two sugars. Without it, too bitter.

 

[Corrosion of Conformity]

ew

 

[monkeyboy]

Who drinks coffee with sugar anyway?

I guess everyone should do things your way...

 

[rxbandit]

I guess everyone should do things your way...

If we didn't that'd be a corrosion of conformity...