Questions and Answers (more)

Has the city (finally) collected your Christmas Tree?

It’s only Easter.
But?

But, no! After we sawed the goliath of Christmas Trees into a plethora of Tiny Tim pieces, the disjointed pieces of the tree trunk we collected. However, the branches – which, defying science, are still green – remain, forlornly deposited on the ground. We tried putting them into the ‘green garbage’:

“They are, in fact, ever-green,” I explained to Nazy.

The result was unsuccessful. They simply stopped emptying the Green Garbage. Now we have been reduced to chopping the remaining branches into very small twigs that we hide amongst the defunct cut flowers.

Flowers are not green. Can you discard them in the green garbage?

Don’t ask.

What do you think of the passage of the healthcare package in the USA?

I live in Europe. No one here, including me, understands the difficulty in meeting a basic human need.

But isn’t it expensive?

The Americans pay twice as much per capita as any other major country – and half of the population is uninsured and the life span is lower. I think it was already expensive.

The plan is coercive. The government will force you to purchase insurance. Isn’t that wrong?

The government will force you? Is that a surprise? We have the same kind of plan in Switzerland. And, by the way, they can’t cancel my insurance when I get sick.

But the way health care is handled is absurd. There is no link between the payer and the service.

That’s absolutely true. But that’s a different problem. And, by the way, that wasn't a question.