June 2010
30 posts
May 2010
18 posts
just spilt my coffee and my ash tray,
love mornings.
“The New Deal was not a socialist plot, but an attempt to find a balance between free markets and a government role to mitigate the harmful effects of free markets on the lives of ordinary Americans. The New Deal introduced to the U.S. a mixed economy, not a socialist economy, and it works, despite Republican attempts to dismantle it since Reagan. It can be called socialist only by those who care not a whit about finding the balance between liberty and equality. Again, it’s not either/or; it’s about finding a balance. Reaganism and doctrinaire Libertarianism represent a movement in the direction of Liberty that causes severe imbalances when it comes to equality. And if such Libertarians were able to think objectively, they’d see, for instance, that a single-payer system, if it’s set up correctly, actually increases the liberty of doctors and patients to make decisions, that it would deliver providers from the tyranny of onerous paper work and interfering insurance bureaucrats who veto physicians’ decisions, and deliver patients from the tyranny of insurance companies that deny needed coverage on the flimsiest of pretexts because their goal is to minimize payments to increase shareholder returns. Single payer is an example of where a government role would increase liberty and equality significantly, especially when compared to the current arrangements.”
—What Libertarians Don’t Get (via azspot)
“How did that boy making love behind that shed become this man writing this letter at this table?”
—Jonathan Safran Foer (via thechocolatebrigade) (via imthecrazybitcharoundhere)
Run,
fast.
