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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: skinowski who wrote (8745)	8/27/2009 8:58:14 PM
From: ProDeath	Read Replies (3) of 42652

The premise that capitalism = individual rights, collectivism = group rights is entirely too simple a dichotomy for properties that exist on the ends of a continuum. There's a great deal more to individual rights beyond property rights such than what a system may do about individual property rights means little in the larger picture. Of course, to practitioners of the oldest and most primitive human religion, materialism, property rights sit high on the list :-) I'm not sure what you mean by the term "the people". How is an oligarchy composed of political bosses any worse than an oligarchy composed of self-selected corporate criminals? It's the same thing either way, the choice of collectivism vs. not collectivism has no bearing on power being concentrated in oligarchies. China is not reinventing capitalism, they are reinventing communism, replacing and fixing the parts of it that didn't serve so well. The capitalist principles they have assimilated are clearly not the same ones that are said to cause a rain of individual freedom to magically fall from the sky.

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