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People are the product of their decisions. This is another example (from the AP) of why I say we should cut off government gifts to voters:

"Roughly 40,000 poor people have been dropped from the Oregon Health Plan this year because of their failure to make monthly premium payments, some as low as $6 a month," the Associated Press reports from Eugene.

"Advocates for the poor" are outraged. "It's an enormous barrier," said Ellen Pinney, director of the Oregon Health Action Committee. "Let alone the $6, there is the whole issue of writing a check or getting a money order, putting it in an envelope with a stamp and putting it in the mail to this place in Portland that must receive it by the due date."

Give me an ever-loving freakin' break! Don't you wish you only paid $6 a month for insurance? And the stress and strain of putting a stamp on an envelope! We are so harsh on these people! Please. We should take aware their $6/month healthcare and give them a swift kick in the crotch. It's not bad enough that they are robbing others to provide their care, (who do you think pays the rest?) they have the audacity to be ungrateful about it. They say that $6/month presents a barrier? I say we put a large barrier up to keep them from our wallets. Let them learn how the rest of society (the taxpayers) live. If I ever hear someone complain to me that their government-subsidized benefits aren't more convenient, I'm going to kick them in the crotch and tear up their voter ID card. They're as bad as the beggars who hold up "Will work for food" signs who throw away any food that you give them. Poverty is a mental disease.

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