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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (2769)	11/8/2007 9:19:47 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

You can fire commercial enterprises but can only deal with a tyrannical government by removing it or departing from its jurisdiction. "A few anomalous individual situations don't a "tyrannical government" make. That's hype or paranoia. Anomalies happen and will always happen. Perspective is needed. Those anomalies tend to be either criminals or weirdos. The latter are your concern and I understand it. The biggest constraint in dealing with the weirdos is union law. ..." You are correct that civilizations will always harbor people who refuse to work towards the common good. You treat this phenomenon as if it is an anomaly. I believe that far more people are motivated by self interest than by the collective good. The most effective way of harnessing self interest is in commercial enterprises and not government.