The GOP Has Become the Party of Moral Depravity
Every day in the news we have horror stories about average Americans who happen to get sick and are forced to deal with a byzantine health care system designed to prevent them, if at all possible, from getting the care they need, while conservative presidential candidates declare:
"I don't like mandating health care. I don't like it because it erodes what makes health care work in this country -- the free market, the profit motive. A mandate takes choice away from people. We've got to let people make choices. We've got to let them take the risk-do they want to be covered? Do they want health insurance? Because ultimately, if they don't, well, then, they may not be taken care of."
Unsurprisingly, we also have the decadent business elite, awash in cash and privilege during this second gilded age, being lavishly rewarded time after time for risky behavior. People like Merril Lynch's Stanley O'Neill who, after being fired for overseeing the loss of 8 billion dollars the company invested in sub-prime loans, was forced to settle for a mere 160 million dollar golden parachute -- on top of his 48 million dollar salary.
