If the current administration succeeds in offering its national healthcare option the result will be disaster. It will fail its goals and impoverish the US on the same scale as the invasion of Iraq. I repeat, just because an idea makes people feel good does not make it a good idea.

Yes, the zombie invasion is real, but it’s us it’s us it’s us it’s us it’s us it’s us it’s us it’s us

I believe the major obstacle blocking acceptance of the libertarian explanation of rising healthcare costs is not problems with its theoretical formulation or that we make poor arguments, but the perceived heartlessness of a theory which discourages the government from subsidizing the healthcare of the poor and elderly.

This is the major weapon that the liberal Republicrats have against libertarians. We can make brilliant, logically sound arguments until our faces turn blue, but the politicians will still have the people’s hearts because they promise easy answers and the assurance that they can just magically make it work.

An intractable problem.

Compare with ancient Rome (picture depicts copy of Roman original) or even the often-ignored relief Ex Nihilo on the west facade of the Washington National Cathedral. Why would we eschew good, artistically significant scuplture in favor of vaguely artisic-seeming, repulsive nihilism? Why wasn’t Frederick Hart commissioned as a national sculptor? One can only wonder.

So the travelers walk down the path, but it’s still the wrong path, and eventually Bush/Obama/The Fed’s food and water isn’t available, and all the travelers perish. The travelers are businessmen, the food and water is financial resources, the wrong path is where our economy is now. I hope this was helpful.

I remember talking to a Bank of America employee not long after the aquisition of Merrill Lynch. He said it was a senseless move which the CEO made hurriedly and unilaterally. If he was being pressured by the Financial Powers That Be, the move suddenly makes sense and takes on a frightening signifigance.