Thread: If You Were President..

Atmofear's points are valid and excellent
No brains no worries is clearly a pinko

Originally Posted by no_brains_no_worries

WTF is a pinko? And how can you, someone who's come from a poor upbringing, agree with only private schools? Where does that leave those below the poverty line? Perhaps people wouldn't be so down on public schooling if it got the funding it deserved.

A "Pinko" is a a person sympathetic to Communism.

The term has its origins in the notion that pink is a lighter shade of red, the color associated with communism; thus pink could be thought of as a "lighter form of communism" promoted by mere supporters of socialism who weren't, themselves, "card-carrying" communists.

It's mainly used by conservatives when they can't think of a proper comeback

Originally Posted by paulyt

Having universal or "socialised" health care doesn't mean your whole precious capitalist system has to be destroyed. A country is supposed to take care of it's citizens. You could use the Australian and tax people who earn over a certain amount (say $100,000 a year or whatever a little bit (I think it's 2.5% here) if they don't have private health care. Those who can afford and want private health care have it and those who can't afford it still get treatment and medication.

tl;dr: You can still keep all the other aspects of capitalism even if you have Universal health care.

If you had read anything that I'd said at all you'd know that my argument has nothing to do with capitalism.

Originally Posted by no_brains_no_worries

WTF is a pinko? And how can you, someone who's come from a poor upbringing, agree with only private schools? Where does that leave those below the poverty line? Perhaps people wouldn't be so down on public schooling if it got the funding it deserved.

If I recall correctly, he said something about the government issuing credits to people for the privatized education, which is fine by me. If he didn't mention that, then scratch my support of it.