Why we are doomed
Salam:
In the short run, free markets take faith; government providing medical care does not.
In the long run, government providing medical care takes faith; free markets do not.
Short run thinkers get votes.
Your average middle-class European is constrained in many ways a middle-class American is not, but chances are she's not afraid of seeing her child catch a flu because she happens to be between jobs. Simply put, you can't take something away without giving something else in return. Root-canal reforms that sharply reduce economic security will be resisted unless you can make the compelling case that there is some compensating benefit, a light at the end of the tunnel.
In the short run, free markets take faith; government providing medical care does not.
In the long run, government providing medical care takes faith; free markets do not.
Short run thinkers get votes.
Posted by David on
May 15, 2006
It's not the spending. It's the opportunism, the lack of a vision."
revenues have collapse? I don't think so.
spending lower? look again lady!
I had to check the date because I thought that maybe she was talking about Bush I instead of Bush II. The article up to the part quoted above was making sense.