We burned draft cards and changed America,

[mmonk]

Why can't we burn insurance cards?

[Initech]

1. Better yet... why can't we burn our pink slips?

[mmonk]

7. Better yet, displaced workers should take over the

shuttered factories.

[onenote]

9. and do what?

where are they going to get the money to run the factories -- pay the utilities, purchase raw materials, pay employees?

[mmonk]

13. Worker Control Solution

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[Echo In Light]

2. K&R

[stray cat]

3. You can - just don't expect to get free health care or insurance aid

[NoNothing]

4. You can

Burning draft cards demonstrated a willingness to break the law. What does burning insurance cards represent? It's not illegal and it doesn't hurt anyone but yourself.

[onenote]

5. we burned our draft cards because we didn't want to be drafted

are we supposed to burn our insurance cards because we don't want insurance?

[mmonk]

6. Are you saying if you burn your card, your coverage drops?

I wasn't aware of that.

[onenote]

8. I'm saying that there was a connect between burning our cards and what we wanted

Not sure I see that in the action of burning an insurance card.

[mmonk]

11. It's called symbolic protest. Burn them on the steps of Capital Hill.

All you have to do is keep a copy on file. Do it just to tell them to go to hell.

[BeFree]

10. Personally...

...I liked the women burning bras even more.

[Lilith Velkor]

12. Some of y'all were over there fragging your commanding officers

That had as much to do with changing America as any burning of cards.

I'll leave it to the reader what to infer from that.