With Friends Like These
If you pour a cup of milk in to one quart bottle, then pour that same milk into a one gallon bottle, you don’t have less milk, you just more room.
In “Expanding government-run health insurance means expanding discrimination against gays,” Jimmy LaSalvia has decided that if straight married people benefit from the proposed healthcare “public option,” since same sex marriages can’t be federally recognized, gay people will be even more discriminated against.
Huh?
Making things better for a large percentage of Americans doesn’t make things worse for a small percentage of Americans. It’s the typical right-wing “zero-sum” game. In the mind of a conservative, everything has to come out flat. There’s no possibility of something making something better, without something becoming worse for it.
It’s almost like if you add a teaspoon of sugar to your coffee at breakfast, your turkey sandwich at lunch will taste bad. Life just doesn’t work that way.
LaSalvia then goes back to Bush’s attempt to privatize Social Security, claiming the LGBTQ community would be better off if we had been able to invest our Social Security taxes in private accounts. Well, the fact that the market crashed and lost trillions of dollars in value would have meant all of us would have lost even more money. LaSalvia conveniently leaves that part out.
He continues,
“The gay community should know by now that the marketplace has always treated gays and lesbians better than the government has. In fact, according to the Human Rights Campaign — the self-professed voice of the LGBT community — 83 percent of Fortune 100 companies offer domestic partner benefits to their gay employees, benefits denied by law to employees of the federal government.”
But LaSalvia again leaves something out. Like the just-released study by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. 83 percent of Fortune 100 companies may offer domestic partner benefits to their gay employees, but