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

To: i-node who wrote (9490)	9/14/2009 2:57:27 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

A year ago, who would have thought the government would be running GM and Chrysler today? They aren't.

To: i-node who wrote (9490)	9/14/2009 3:37:41 PM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 42652

They say love and money run the world... But then, we know that money is power.... and lust for power is a pretty strong emotion.... :) But then again, look at the other side of the equation. Throughout human history the strong could abuse the weak. Therefore, having a big benevolent dictatorship which we all together elect -- and which always likes to do a little redistributing -- must have a powerful appeal, on a subliminal level. [edit -- limited government is when redistributors are forced to refrain from becoming too overzelous, and damaging the goose that lays the golden eggs -- the producers.]