[MD] Privatised medicine? No thanks

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting ARLO J BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu>:

> [Arlo previously]
> Social Darwinism, Platt's position, is that "poverty" is nature's way of
> weeding out the riff-raff. The poor are simply our nation's lazy, slothful
> vermin, so letting them die off makes the nation better. 
> 
> [Platt]
> Deliberate lie. Evil.
> 
> [Arlo]
> I almost wish I was lying. The "lie" here is for you to deny it. You have tied
> "value" to "wealth" so many times, condemned the "poor" as being simply too
> stupid or lazy to get a job in our Great Land O' Opportunity, and reincarnated
> Marie Antionette when you suggested that those suffering under poverty in West
> Virginia should simply "move somewhere else and get a job" lest they deserve to
> die off with no loss to our Greatest Nation. But of course the Pee Wee
> Maneuver, attempting to deflect the evil of your own rhetorical tactics back on
> others who point it out, is _the_ talk-radio way. Which you keep proving again
> and again and again. 

Evil again, and again and again.


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