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Ray's avatar

government sponsored murder again, is this round 4 or 5 now i cant keep up?

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John Q Liberty's avatar

Widely known is that the United States government was recompensing hospitals for putting patients on ventilators, then still more money for those who died. These probably weren't labeled 'bounties' as such, more likely given some other euphemism intended to hoodwink the public into believing they were helping out the hospitals financially in some way. In any event, it's the closest thing we've seen in America since the wild west days, when it was common for "Wanted, Dead or Alive" posters to be seen in jails and post offices.

This time, it was "Wanted, Dead or Alive"... except that "Alive" wasn't an option.

A dry run was made by a university that I graduated from, to which I had "paid in full" to be a lifetime member of their alumni association when I graduated. Twenty or thirty years later, they requested that I started paying annual dues (voluntarily, of course.)

Apparently and inadvertently, I had lived too long. Being old enough to remember the halcyon days when "a deal" was "a deal", I didn't rise to the bait. Sorry, dear old State: thanks for the education, fish somewhere else.

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