tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2641857271501346967.post3090449785796503921..comments2023-09-30T08:20:02.492-05:00Comments on Spatula: The Politics of IdiocySpatulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11854980811662099891noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2641857271501346967.post-50083886506609588952008-01-29T20:56:00.000-06:002008-01-29T20:56:00.000-06:00As a resident of South Carolina, I, along with the...As a resident of South Carolina, I, along with the rest of the state, have been inundated with John Edwards campaign ads over the several weeks leading up to the Democratic party primary here. Beside spewing populist notions of economics (which are especially idiotic -- as they have virtually nothing to do with the way in which in a free market economy works, but which always play well to the ignorant), I have been forced to watch him stand in front a closed textile mill and hear John proclaim, "My daddy worked in a mill like this...." Of course, he wants everyone to think that his daddy was a poor cottonhead mill worker and a "victim" of the system. What he doesn't say? Daddy was, in reality, an industrial engineer who managed the flippin' mill in which he worked.<BR/><BR/>Hillary, no doubt, was spot on with her remarks about MLK and LBJ, and anyone with a lick of sense would recognize 1) the truth in what she said and 2) that it takes nothing away from the work of either one of them. On economic issues, however, Hillary, like many Democrats, is a blazing idiot, otherwise known as a socialist. For example, are we all looking forward to universal health care (otherwise known as turning the whole country into General Motors)? By the way, everyone will be required under Hillary's plan to have health insurance. That means that if you don't get it at work, you have to buy it. And if you don't buy it, you get fined. Whether you can afford to buy it does not enter into the equation. Idiocy. This incidentally is essentially the same plan as Romney's in Massachusetts. Never let it be said that the Republicans don't have their fair share of idiots. Many folks in Massachusetts, who cannot afford to purchase health insurance, are being fined for not having it. And, of course, they are paying the fine, because the fine is cheaper than the insurance that they can't afford to buy. So, they are too poor to get health insurance, and the answer to that is to fine them and take money that they don't have away from them. And somehow this is supposed to be helping those who have heretofore been unable to be insured, otherwise and often known as the poor. How are the poor being helped exactly?<BR/><BR/>By the way, I love the blog!<BR/><BR/>TimAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2641857271501346967.post-69305006229355212732008-01-20T18:53:00.000-06:002008-01-20T18:53:00.000-06:00Dear Rich, A great post. It is amazing that all t...Dear Rich, <BR/>A great post. It is amazing that all three major Democratic candidates are lawyers married to lawyers. Edwards is the trial lawyer of the group and you are so right about him!<BR/><BR/>MarkAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com