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November 12, 2009

The Morality of Health Care Reform

Before today I'd never heard of Booman Tribune. But that changed when I followed a hit on our site meter back to a great post by Terrance called The Morality of Health Care Reform, Pt. 6. As the title implies it is part six (of a seven part) series on the morality of health care reform.

Terrance was kind enough to link back to PK with an image I took at the Forest Grove Tea Party:





I actually used a different pic of the same guy in my initial Tea Party post though. The above pic is from a much more recent post where I went with that pic because it showed the guy holding the sign even though it's a far worse pic in terms of clarity and legibility. Here's the first, more legible one:





Anyway, what I really like the most about Terrance's post - besides the fact that he used one of my pics (which I actively want to be more widely disseminated) - is that he quoted Alicia Morgan who, with vastly more eloquence and clarity than I've ever manged to muster, articulated the conservative's world view:

That's the essence of the conservative worldview: as long as I've got mine, I don't care if you have yours. The idea of everyone pursuing his or her own self-interest, then by the invisible hand, the self-interest of all will be maximized, or in the parlance of the Eighties, "Greed is good!" - is the one-size-fits-all answer to poverty, to injustice, to inequality. But what it boils down to in real life is "I've got mine." The idea that every person that works full-time is due enough compensation to support themselves, let alone a family, doesn't even enter into the calculation. It's okay for other people to be underpaid, overworked, taken advantage of. All that matters is - it's not me.

I couldn't possibly have said it better myself.

It's a long post but chock full of though-provoking goodness. Undoubtedly the previous five parts were comparable and the last part to the series will also be more than worthwhile reading and digesting.

Posted by Kevin at November 12, 2009 12:23 PM