[MD] NHS? No thanks

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Arlo Bensinger <ajb102 at psu.edu>:


> [Platt]
> All these things free, like "free roads and waterways?" I guess to 
> you the power to tax is the power to provide freebies. Some "critical 
> thinking" I must say. Some "liberty."
> 
> [Arlo]
> Yes, I'd say public lands, public roads and waterways, public 
> libraries... all these things increase my liberty, indeed, increase 
> everyone's liberty. The next time I am basking in the sun on my 
> little rowboat, with a line in the water, sipping a cold beer in one 
> of Pennsylvania's wonderful state parks, having driven there on free 
> roads, maybe reading "I am a Strange Loop" checked out from my local 
> public library, I'll just smile when I think of how you find all that 
> "destructive to liberty". And maybe on the way back I'll stop in at a 
> public museum, since they too destroy my liberty, and take in the 
> art. All the while breathing the clean air and dipping my feet in the 
> clear waters, kept this way by government environmental and land 
> management programs. A threat to liberty? Hehehehe...

Liberty to you means comfort and economic freebies (the latter a joke since
you pay for them through taxes.) To me, it means freedom from the knock on
the door in the middle of the night and the ride to face a firing squad for
failure to be politically correct.   
 
> [Platt]
> Why not tenure for everybody? Is a faculty somehow elite, to be 
> treated differently than the rest of us peons? Why not tenure for Imus?
> 
> [Arlo]
> I don't know. Start an organization to demand tenure for radio talk 
> show hosts. What do I care?

You don't know why there is tenure for faculty? Who does?

> [Platt]
> And we should let it go at that? Not even an apology from your 
> precious, protected faculty?
> 
> [Arlo]
> I have nothing to apologize for, nor control over those who may. Write to them.

I didn't ask for your apology.


 


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