"How easy! Why didn't anyone think of that before? We'll simply pay the doctors $1,000 to talk to us about weight and only $500 for cutting off a foot and we'll end up with skinnier people, fewer detached feet, smaller health care costs and a lower federal deficit.
It's the same with cutting the deficit by just picking the right colors. As Obama explained, "If there's a blue pill and a red pill and the blue pill is half the price of the red pill and works just as well, why not pay half the price for the thing that's going to make you well?"
So "why not"? It's either because the doctors are too dumb or because they're stuck in a capitalist trap where greed is ruining everything. Either way, the solution is to have a smart socialist call all the shots."
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_640552.html
The essence of statism is the arrogance required to believe that a centralized organization of the behavior of millions of people can possibly result in efficiency, effectiveness, or anything of the sort.
"In the upside-down world of the statist, deceit and avarice are concentrated in the private sector; honesty and bigheartedness in the government sector.... Today's politicians, heroic? And we should be quiet? Thomas Jefferson had it right: "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."""
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