[Rhodes22-list] Quasi-political reply to Ed

[Robert Skinner]

Tootle wrote:
> Have you ever studied what Marxism is?  How socialism kills individual
> initiative?
> ...
> Study what goes on in Maine, where a city government disregards its citizens
> in general for a rock quarry.  This example is typical of government abusing
> its citizens.  Yet the 'citizen' complaining of the injustice is a proponent
> of more government.  He believes that government health care will be better
> run.  The truth is that it will not and more injustice will ensue.  I
> guarantee that more government means more bureaucratic decisions which screw
> ordinary citizens, in fact it screw everybody.
> Ed K

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Ed,

It is particularly ironic, given your comments, that the 
chairman of the town council in Gorham, Maine, (the one 
whose son works at the construction company for which a 
new ordinance was ram-rodded through in the middle of 
planning board considerations about the safety and 
appropriateness of a planned quarry and asphalt plant) is 
a staunch Republican, as are the members of the council 
who voted for the special enabling ordinance.

Evidently, they have not studied their Marxism either...

And, addressing your comments about health care, I don't 
really care how the basics of health care are made 
available to all.  By basics, I mean immunizations and 
other preventative care measures for children, and 
palliative care (pain meds, etc.) for terminally ill 
seniors.

I don't care whether such minimal care is delivered by 
the government, private insurance companies, or Martians.  
As a society, it is to our advantage to get some things 
done some damned way, and to Hell with the politics.  
It's an economic decision as well as a humanitarian one.

In addition to the basics, I would also point out that 
there are other health-related care issues where it is 
more expensive to society as a whole to neglect dealing 
with them than to see that they are handled.  A poorly 
set and wrongly healed broken arm surely has more 
downstream economic and social costs than the small 
amount of time it would take to set it properly.

Arguing about political theory only gets in the way of 
dealing with the realities.

/Robert