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		Toronto-area doctor wants all Canadians to forfeit a day's wage to fight AIDS. Apparently, Toronto-area doctors don't realize that not everyone makes $300k/year (thestar.com)		121
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Jon Snow		2006-10-17 03:41:15 PM

Actual headline from the article:

"Canada urged to give day's pay for AIDS"

I'm sorry, but I wouldn't take AIDS for free, let alone pay for it.

HackerNetwork		2006-10-17 05:48:19 PM

That's how socialized medicine works. You pay to get sick.

vandelay		2006-10-17 05:48:25 PM

Everyone should donate at least a day's pay for a good cause once in a while. It's the only way things get done. It is called "doing your part".

Amhran		2006-10-17 05:48:29 PM

...Yeah. Sorry - folks in the Maritimes can not afford to do something like this. Maybe if people stopped the c--k blocking on bringing business, and if the Provincial Government here lowered taxes, it would not be as big of a deal. But as is, a day of wages here is the difference between bills being paid and food on the table.

Ne0nDrag0n		2006-10-17 05:48:58 PM

That's how Jared lost all that weight, you know?

gyronic		2006-10-17 05:49:40 PM

yeah... this is a bad idea

Everyone has AIDS!
AIDS AIDS AIDS!
AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS!
Everyone has AIDS!

And so this is the end of our story
And everyone is dead from AIDS
It took from me my best friend
My only true pal
My only bright star (he died of AIDS)

Well I'm gonna march on Washington
Lead the fight and charge the brigades
There's a hero inside of all of us
I'll make them see everyone has AIDS

My father (AIDS!)
My sister (AIDS!)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS AIDS AIDS!)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades

Everyone has AIDS!
My grandma and my dog 'ol blue (AIDS AIDS AIDS)
The pope has got it and so do you (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS)
C'mon everybody we got quilting to do (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS)
We gotta break down these baricades, everyone has
AIDS! x 20

bigred1		2006-10-17 05:49:53 PM

before or after tax? can I deduct the prorated portion of my health insurance premium? eh-here's ten bucks

Legalize It		2006-10-17 05:50:11 PM

Jon Snow, I think you're onto something.

"Give up a day's pay or we'll give you AIDS" would probably raise more money.

entropic_existence		2006-10-17 05:50:41 PM

Amhran: ...Yeah. Sorry - folks in the Maritimes can not afford to do something like this. Maybe if people stopped the c--k blocking on bringing business, and if the Provincial Government here lowered taxes, it would not be as big of a deal. But as is, a day of wages here is the difference between bills being paid and food on the table.

Of course it would be nice if those who could (and hey there are a fair number of those) did.

moncheche		2006-10-17 05:50:56 PM

But thats only 18 bucks in Canadian cash

SpamBot		2006-10-17 05:51:00 PM

HA. No damn way.
I get hit up at every turn with people/organizations begging for money. It wears THIN after a while.

/Canadian

jay_bones15		2006-10-17 05:51:35 PM

In soviet canada...a days wage for a doctor (take home after taxes) is only $25 loonies...which is like $1.65 US.

Incetardis		2006-10-17 05:51:56 PM

Amhran

You're not kidding. I may hate the overwhelming conservative element, but at least progress exists here in Cowtown. New Brunswick was in bad shape when I left. Hopefully the new government gets them on track.

Lt. Col. Angus		2006-10-17 05:52:31 PM

All your wage are belong to us.

Espera		2006-10-17 05:52:41 PM

Why stupid? FTFA it's a Donation, not a forfeit or tax. It's a huge chance to raise money for a cause of saving lives. If you can't afford to give up a single day's wage, don't. If you can? Great. Help find a cure

AndEhBus		2006-10-17 05:52:50 PM

I thought AIDS was a good thing.

akula		2006-10-17 05:53:06 PM

vandelay: Everyone should donate at least a day's pay for a good cause once in a while. It's the only way things get done. It is called "doing your part".

It's also called "having no money."

There's thousands, if not millions, of good causes in the world. You can't fund them all, and making a decree from your ivory tower that "everybody can give one day's pay" for your given cause is the height of arrogance. AIDS isn't a disease that jumps up and bites you on the ass in a public restroom; it is a disease which is spread by partaking in certain risky behaviors (yes, there's people who have it by no fault of their own, but those people are damned rare). Telling people who are already taxed to their eyeballs to pay for medical care for everybody else to pony up a day's pay for a disease spread by behavior, well, it's not a nice thing to do.

Whatever happened to the assumption that your possessions (including your paycheck) belonged to YOU, and YOU are the one who decides where it goes? I guess that idea died when personal responsibility surrendered.

AndEhBus		2006-10-17 05:54:34 PM

Say what you want about AIDS but it tastes just like Tang...

/so do Ants

ten_of_spades		2006-10-17 05:54:53 PM

Rather than take my wages, why not just prescribe the preventative drug, Noassitol?

QuesoGrande		2006-10-17 05:55:00 PM

Ha ha... good job on the headline.

Iamwrong		2006-10-17 05:55:08 PM

300K Canadian dollars
=
262K real dollars

strifecat		2006-10-17 05:55:37 PM

whoa kids, its only a suggestion, not a decree from the canadian government. he's raising a lot of research money. i really don't see how anyone could criticize this.

quixotic2		2006-10-17 05:55:40 PM

A doctor convinces people to donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to fight AIDS. The hero tag would have been far more appropriate.

Der Poopflinger		2006-10-17 05:55:47 PM

ya no, I'll keep my money, YOU stop getting aids, problem solved
ps. stop farking monkeys

Gunderson		2006-10-17 05:56:43 PM

Maybe if people would stop humping everything in sight, This would be less of a problem. AIDS is preventable. How about donating monet to breat cancer. More die from that than AIDS, yet AIDS gets 10 times the funding...

Frantic Freddie		2006-10-17 05:57:18 PM

Yeah,lets dump even more money down the drain in Africa while Mugabe says having sex with virgins cures AIDS...

Der Poopflinger		2006-10-17 05:57:39 PM

Gunderson money maybe, but I stole the monet fair and square

BassPlayinManiac		2006-10-17 05:57:54 PM

I am willing to do this if it would get the US out of debt. fark AIDS though, those people who get it obviously did something to piss god off. Or else he wouldn't punish them. Like homosexuals, those ass tagers deserve AIDS.

AndEhBus		2006-10-17 05:58:30 PM

strifecat: whoa kids, its only a suggestion, not a decree from the canadian government. he's raising a lot of research money. i really don't see how anyone could criticize this.

It's already been proven by numerous studies and top scientists that research money causes AIDS, Cancer, and Jock-Itch.

justdweezil		2006-10-17 05:58:34 PM

Apparently submitter doesn't realize a Canadian doctor doesn't isn't likely to make $300K per year, either.

vandelay		2006-10-17 05:58:44 PM

akula - "Whatever happened to the assumption that your possessions (including your paycheck) belonged to YOU, and YOU are the one who decides where it goes? "

Yep, I agree. Good people decide to donate to worthy causes when they are able. If they don't have money to give, why not donate time? It is part of being a decent human.

BTW, I'm not speaking neccessarily about this AIDS thing, honestly I didn't even RTFA, and I didn't mention it in my post.

lordargent		2006-10-17 05:59:22 PM

Solution to aids.

Execute everyone that has it.

Problem solved.

/I also advocate throwing babies out with the bath water

beer4breakfast		2006-10-17 05:59:24 PM

The amount of good will towards fellow mankind displayed in this thread is heart warming.

theigorway		2006-10-17 06:00:32 PM

vandelay: Everyone should donate at least a day's pay for a good cause once in a while. It's the only way things get done. It is called "doing your part".

Actually, both Canadians and US citizens contribute a significant amount to the research and treatment of AIDS and other diseases through our federal, state and local taxes. Just because that "contribution" to our governments isn't voluntary doesn't mean we aren't "doing our part."

AndEhBus		2006-10-17 06:01:04 PM

AIDS can be scrambled to speel SAID... I hope this helps...

lordargent		2006-10-17 06:01:07 PM

or, if you feel that execution is too severe, banishment

Demon of the Fall		2006-10-17 06:01:14 PM

Gunderson

Your forgetting about kids who got lucky enough to be born with HIV. Also while we're talking about underfunded diseases, how bout lung cancer?

/cue House's rant

AndEhBus		2006-10-17 06:01:47 PM

when in doubt, excecute them out

QuesoGrande		2006-10-17 06:02:22 PM

justdweezil: Apparently submitter doesn't realize a Canadian doctor doesn't isn't likely to make $300K per year, either.

Right... they get paid in furs and buffalo hides.

nytmare		2006-10-17 06:02:49 PM

So I'm supposed to donate to whoever wants money?

A day's pay for AIDS
A day's pay for breast cancer
A day's pay for hunger victims
A day's pay for flood victims
A day's pay for tsunami victims
A day's pay for MS
A day's pay for my congressman
A day's pay for girl scouts
A day's pay for the Red Cross
A day's pay for Bethesda Mission
A day's pay for PBS
A day's pay for MDA

fark, I'm all out of money.

AndEhBus		2006-10-17 06:03:04 PM

vat of acid

aids patient

problem solved

Der Poopflinger		2006-10-17 06:03:59 PM

QuesoGrande nah they only make $299k instead of $300k
/still wont donate for aids

Legalize It		2006-10-17 06:04:33 PM

beer4breakfast

Die in a fire.

/just keepin' it rollin'

AndEhBus		2006-10-17 06:05:23 PM

What do you call a blonde with AIDS?

A Sexually Stupid Disease.... LOL

neonrisk		2006-10-17 06:06:02 PM

Money will not solve all your problems.

ReisFlynn		2006-10-17 06:08:22 PM

vandelay

Wally: Alice, have you fulfilled your obligation to society?

Alice: Yes. I signed up for payroll deduction. I like to give. I'm morally superior to Dilbert.

Dilbert: That is so illogical. As long as there are starving people in the world you can't have money in the bank and still claim to be moral.

Alice: There is ample precedent for my behavior. It is completely societally appropriate to give only as much as one can afford.

Dilbert: You just bought six pairs of shoes that look exactly the same.

Alice: That came out of my shoe budget.

Wally: Don't rock the boat, Dilbert. It's a fragile system.

Dilbert: That shoe money could have fed a poor family for a year. What's so moral about letting people starve to death so that you can have extra shoes?

Wally: Stop it. You're ruining everything.

Dilbert: I mean, until you give it all AWAY you're not more moral. You just feel less guilty.

Der Poopflinger		2006-10-17 06:09:45 PM

AndEhBus I think Stupid Tramp Disease works better

Molavian		2006-10-17 06:09:52 PM

FTA: "The world is now spending $10 billion a month to fight the war in Iraq and Afghanistan," said Lewis. "In all of 2005 we raised $8.3 billion from every source worldwide to fight AIDS."

The "world", huh? Be nice if the rest of the farkers would pick up a fair share of the check.

AndEhBus		2006-10-17 06:10:16 PM

neonrisk: Money will not solve all your problems.

Come on, that's like saying beer can't power your car or taking a shower won't make your asshole stop stinking like shiat.

GuyCaballero		2006-10-17 06:11:12 PM

nytmare: So I'm supposed to donate to whoever wants money?

A day's pay for AIDS
A day's pay for breast cancer
A day's pay for hunger victims
A day's pay for flood victims
A day's pay for tsunami victims
A day's pay for MS
A day's pay for my congressman
A day's pay for girl scouts
A day's pay for the Red Cross
A day's pay for Bethesda Mission
A day's pay for PBS
A day's pay for MDA

fark, I'm all out of money.

No, they all make their case, and you donate to whomever you want when your heart moves you to donate.

It's pretty sad that some people are filled with righteous indignation because NPOs are asking for money to *gasp* help people.

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