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The 2004 US Presidential Election
July 05, 2003
The Buzzwords Of Dennis Kucinich

From the continuing series at Slate:

Weapon of mass destruction
Example: "Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Lack of adequate education is a weapon of mass destruction. Our children not having good neighborhoods is a weapon of mass destruction" (Children's Defense Fund forum, April 9, 2003).
What it means: Big problem.
What it hides: If you had to choose between getting nuked and getting a bad education, would it be a tough call?
Subtext: Please applaud while I change the subject.
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Anyone who wants a laugh should tune into Dennis' website. All Dennis wants to do is "use America's peace dividend for guaranteed health care for all, ending health care for profit."

Let's think about this for a minute: healthcare is deemed a "necessity" now, because people cannot live without it. And horrors, some people get better care than others in our country because they can AFFORD it!! Isn't that awful?

But what about our other "necessities"? What about food, clothing and shelter? Shouldn't we end the "for profit" nature of all these items? Shouldn't everything be available to us in a free marketplace, comrade?

Before you answer that, tell me who will labor in the "free" medical marketplace? Doctors who just spent $400,000 on their own education? Or should the government take that task over as well? And even if the doctors work for free, who feeds, clothes and shelters the doctors? (not to mention THEIR "free" healthcare?)

Just like the laws of physics, ignorance of market laws doesn't mean you don't have to obey them. You can suspend the inevitable for a few years, but the system comes crashing down eventually (i.e. USSR). Even an incredibly rich country like the USA would go bankrupt under 4 years of socialist pipe dreams like this.

Nothing is "free". Everything we obtain for ourselves and our families comes at a price. This why we work. So we can earn enough money to give our loved ones a better life.

Profoundly immature and ignorant ideas have as much right to run for the Presidency as any others, but why is Kucinich given any more gravitas than Lyndon LaRouche?

Because he's a democrat, and we can't very well admit in the general press that some of their elevators don't go all the way to the top, can we?

Well, I've got to go work for nothing in the free marketplace again comrades, see you after the next Five Year Plan.

Posted by: torpedo_eight at July 6, 2003 12:55 PM
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