“A Human resource asset that isn’t deathly afraid of unemployment is a more volatile resource to manage.”

Well, thanks, but honestly? It’s helpful when they’re that incoherent. It’s hard to respond to a post that looks for all the world like a message that’s been encrypted using a word-replacement scheme based on a one-time pad…

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As for McGalt, you gotta love avoid someone who can spend 3000 words on the morality of single payer health care without ever considering the morality of letting people suffer and die because they’re poor. OMG wealth transfer!!!

Well maybe she considered it somewhere in that mess, but I don’t think I’ve ever been able to finish one of this moron’s posts. I get halfway through or so and decide my time would be better spent staring blankly into space and drooling. I learn more from the later activity as well.

Proponents of the new multi-million dollar exit doubtless made all kinds of claims about how it will pay for itself in the long run (improved access to land = more real-estate development = more jobs and increased property taxes = profit!), but that really seems to be beside the point with McArdle. The backbone of McArdle’s argument is that governments may only provide services when the recipients have some kind of “moral claim” to these services. Regarding the services governments may offer, you can’t have them if you just want them, or even if the government can clearly provide these goods considerably cheaper and better than private industry. Governments, even democratic ones, may not just pay for things the silly old public merely desires, like an Interstate exit over here, a library over there. No, they may do only what the iron law of some kind of unimpeachable morality demands, that and no more.

But why? Why can’t the U.S. government supply the citizenry with a single-payer scheme like every civilized country in the world already has? Not because of some airy Randian moral razzmatazz, but because single-payer is cheaper, and far more humanely decent (by which I mean, in my soft-hearted way, that gosh it’s so much more nice not to strand your ailing Grandpa out on the ice floe), and cheaper, and leads to superior results as measured by obvious statistical bottom lines such as child mortality and life expectancy, and did I mention that atop its other advantages it’s cheaper – a Hell of a lot cheaper – than the ridiculous Wild-West medico-entrepreneurial chaos we U.S. citizens endure today?

But no, we citizens mustn’t have all these benefits, nor will we be allowed to save and keep the really enormous cash money difference between the cost of single-payer and the cost of the world’s-most-expensive U.S. system, because we citizens lack the “moral right” to single-payer. “Morals”! Ptui!

One can only hope that this spawn of Harry & Louise discovers the wonderful world of: copays, deductibles, approved drug/treatment protocols, out-of-plan providers, the Plan approval process, non-covered services and treatments, claims reimbursement and (–drumroll please–) COBRA!

We already have transfer of money from liberals to Republican war mongers who make preemptive strikes on countries that did not pose a threat to us. So Republican regressives can shut up about transfer of money and wealth against their will.

Do you want to destroy the hold that corporations have over congress and the president? Simple. Organize and Demand progressive legislation from some of these corporations and do not buy from them until they get the GOP to get congress to enact this legislation.

If you want to put an end to the Republiklan party, then

Send this letter to the Republican party now! Also put this on your web page so others can see it.

Copy and paste the letter below and email it directly to info@gop.com the Republican Party and get 2 friends to send this letter and have those 2 friends get 2 friends to send it and so on. Thank you. Drop me a message to info@dmocrats.org with the subject Done after you have sent the email.

Hello

Get your Republican party to end the war in Iraq, with Bush and Cheney resigning, and until you do we stop buying televisions, refrigerators, stoves, ovens, dishwashers, dvd players, stereo equipment, light bulbs from one of your party’s major contributors and War contractors General Electric Corporation ( 203 373 2211 ) who cannot afford to lose a large sector of the publics business and money.

Get your Republican party to remove the FICA taxable income cap and tax all of a person’s income for social security purposes and enact HR 676 Single payer universal health care into law and repeal Medicare Part D and place the prescription drug benefit in Medicare Part B covering 80 percent of all medication with no extra premiums, no extra deductibles, no means tests, no coverage gaps, and completely remove the means test to Medicare Part B and until you do, we will not buy consumer products and prescription drugs from one of the biggest pharmacy chains and GOP contributors in the country, Rite Aid, who cannot afford to lose a large sector of the publics business and money.

Get your Republican party to enact a $10 an hour minimum wage, and until you do, we will not go to the following restaurants and GOP contributors Wendy’s, Outback Steakhouse, Olive Garden, Red Lobster, and Dominos Pizza who cannot afford to lose a large sector of the publics business and money.

Get your Republican party to enact into law Universal vote by mail with paper ballots counted by civil servants with civil servants registering voters and keeping track of registrations, and until you do, we will not buy any GOP contributor Dell computers or monitors or go to the following restaurants and GOP contributors Wendy’s, Outback Steakhouse, Olive Garden, Red Lobster, and Dominos Pizza who cannot afford to lose a large sector of the publics business and money.

Get your Republican party to get congress to pass and enact a law legalizing abortions from conception to six months, and to nine months when the life of the mother appears threatened, and until you do we stop doing business with two of your biggest contributors Dominos Pizza and Curves for Women Health Clubs.

Signed,

You don’t think it is covert racism causing all these differentials?

The entire political philosophy is just looking out for number 1.