Leaving the one you love
Mark Steyn thinks about Canadians missing what they left behind, and then thinks better of it. Must reading here:
"It’s not about 'health.' It’s about the acceptance of the proposition that a government bureaucrat has sovereignty over your bladder—that you’ll be getting up 12 times a night, seven nights a week, 52 weeks a year for three years simply because the state has so decreed. And so, to return to the question Colby Cosh raises, what does the state’s annexation of the individual’s responsibility for his own health—the nationalization of your body, so to speak—say about the broader society?"
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"Canada has done everything David Rakoff, Sarah McNally and Melissa Auf der Maur want—not least in their own fields. It taxes convenience-store clerks to subsidize books and writing and publishing and that wonderful 'national conversation about literature like a big book club' in which everyone’s membership dues are automatically deducted from your bank account whether you go to the meetings or not. And still Mr. Rakoff and Ms. McNally and Ms. Auf der Maur leave. They applaud the creation of a 'just' and 'equitable' society, and then, like almost all the members of the Order of Canada you’ve actually heard of, they move out. Despite commending the virtues of a social 'safety net' for you and everyone else, they personally can only fulfill their potential somewhere else, without one. Usually in a country beginning with 'Great' and ending in 'Satan.'"
Thanks, David.
"It’s not about 'health.' It’s about the acceptance of the proposition that a government bureaucrat has sovereignty over your bladder—that you’ll be getting up 12 times a night, seven nights a week, 52 weeks a year for three years simply because the state has so decreed. And so, to return to the question Colby Cosh raises, what does the state’s annexation of the individual’s responsibility for his own health—the nationalization of your body, so to speak—say about the broader society?"
More:
"Canada has done everything David Rakoff, Sarah McNally and Melissa Auf der Maur want—not least in their own fields. It taxes convenience-store clerks to subsidize books and writing and publishing and that wonderful 'national conversation about literature like a big book club' in which everyone’s membership dues are automatically deducted from your bank account whether you go to the meetings or not. And still Mr. Rakoff and Ms. McNally and Ms. Auf der Maur leave. They applaud the creation of a 'just' and 'equitable' society, and then, like almost all the members of the Order of Canada you’ve actually heard of, they move out. Despite commending the virtues of a social 'safety net' for you and everyone else, they personally can only fulfill their potential somewhere else, without one. Usually in a country beginning with 'Great' and ending in 'Satan.'"
Thanks, David.
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