atw: Re: National Broadband Network issue
- From: Rod Stuart <rod.stuart@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:43:05 +1000
It was in reference to "go and live on a beach somewhere, forage for
yourself, look after your own health or lack of it" and I am sorry but in
retrospect that advice was actually provided by non other than Geoffrey.
On 19 August 2010 13:18, Terry Dowling <Terrence.Dowling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Hi Rod,
>
> You may want to reconsider the value of your education (wasn't private, was
> it?) if you got "Terry says I should go live somewhere else." from my
> email (retained in full below). Maybe it is Marxist Leninist to suggest that
> people should ALL be given a fair chance at life. If so, I'm happy to
> rebrand myself.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Terry
>
> On 18 August 2010 18:33, Terry Dowling wrote:
>
> Rod,
>
> And of course, if the only people who can afford a privatised education
> happen to be the children of our overpaid 'sporting heroes', media
> personalities and the variously well-off, wouldn't society be so much
> better?!
>
> "Your parents can't pay for your education, so sit at home and find ways to
> teach yourself" is really going to work for the masses, isn't it? Especially
> if they have to pay to travel on all roads and there's no such thing as a
> community library.
>
> One of my favourite news stories about the US hospital system was of a car
> crash victim who didn't have private insurance who was taken by ambulance
> from hospital to hospital to hospital, where each refused to accept him. In
> the end, the city council had to guarantee payment before a hospital would
> treat him. Imagine if he had been a wealthy, insured person out for a swim
> or jog without ID and who became unconscious so unable to tell them of his
> insurance.
>
> In my opinion, just because you get unlucky at birth through having poor
> parents and/or genes that don't provide the ability to succeed, shouldn't
> mean you're left to wallow and die. (maybe these unfortunates could become
> commodities for the commercial researchers)
>
> As Geoff says, paying taxes is not the same as being mugged because in
> return we get roads, water, education, hospitals, police, parks, beaches….
>
> Cheers,
>
> Terry
>
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