Posted by
rebel on Monday, January 07, 2008 12:17:11 PM
A brief comment concerning the (Republican) debates over the weekend. How can a panel of god-fearing Christians so easily accept the idea that delivering babies or battling cancer is best served by free market capitalism? By any rational thought, you would need to follow through to ‘pay as you go’ police protection and the fire department asking for your Visa card prior to dispatching the trucks.
Now, I have no doubt that the men on that dais would actually applaud those concepts, but I dare any of them to propose free market police or fire protection – because then the voters might finally see them for who they are; callous, greedy and so very un-Christian. Protection from crime, disaster and disease – none of those should be supplied by institutions (corporations) whose ONLY real concern is to maximize shareholder value.