How did greed become the defining characteristic of the United States of America? When did capitalism, a rather bland 18th century formulation of the obscure British philosopher, Adam Smith, become the money grubbing I-got-mine-screw-you credo of our nation?
How does a country where 30% of its people prefer that the others get sick and die without affordable health care also produce the Peace Corps? How do those Christians, who know very well that Christ healed the leper, rationalize that the person who cleans their hospital room is not able to afford a hospital bed when she is ill?
What kind of two-faced hypocrisy does it take to vote a $1.7 trillion tax cut for the rich in the George W. Bush administration and then to stand on the same Senate floor now and say we cannot afford universal health care Senator Grassley, Senator Hatch?
How, indeed, did greed become the defining characteristic of our country?
How does a country where 30% of its people prefer that the others get sick and die without affordable health care also produce the Peace Corps? How do those Christians, who know very well that Christ healed the leper, rationalize that the person who cleans their hospital room is not able to afford a hospital bed when she is ill?
What kind of two-faced hypocrisy does it take to vote a $1.7 trillion tax cut for the rich in the George W. Bush administration and then to stand on the same Senate floor now and say we cannot afford universal health care Senator Grassley, Senator Hatch?
How, indeed, did greed become the defining characteristic of our country?
The hackneyed 'conservative' rhetoric on health care is stupefyingly hypocritical.
ReplyDeleteThere are a small number of fundamental services that determine the vitality and quality of life of a society, and which may only be effectively delivered through the critical mass of resource and principled driving vision that only society as a whole can bring to bear: infrastructure, defense, education, a social safety net, and health care.
Or perhaps we should extend the conservative logic, privatize the military, hand the nuclear football to the CEO of General Dynamics, and the keys to the Pentagon to Blackwater.