[MD] Down the road of mediocrity

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Platt]
Steaks, expensive cheese, expensive veggies -- you name it,they buy it.

[Arlo]
Caviar, lobster tails... ah the gourmet life of the poor.

[Platt]
As for why me not wanting to take advantage of others, I guess you don't read.

[Arlo]
Let me ask you a personal question, Platt. As one who has seen 
tragedy in his own life. Had you not been able to afford to health 
insurance, would you have actively argued against your daughter 
receiving medical care because you didn't want to "take advantage of 
others"? I can tell you this, had that been the case, I would have 
been outright happy to know my tax dollars may have helped in even 
the slightest way.

[Platt]
So what? Waste, inefficiency, and bloated bureaucracies while people 
die waiting to get treated and you say "So what?"

[Arlo]
Again, problems in the system, sure. Replace it with one where the 
rich get care and the poor are left untreated? Not a chance. Who 
lives and who dies is not something the "market" should decide.

[Platt]
Yes, let's all have no shame for being leeches on the backs of those 
who work. "Animal Farm" anyone?

[Arlo]
Again, there is nothing shameful about being downtrodden. Rather than 
wanting to humiliate them, we should work to improve the employment 
and income potentials where they live, and provide retraining and 
adult education. Rather than spit on the "lazy, worthless poor", we 
should take a lesson from the man whom the conservatives pretend to 
admire and help them instead.