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If you control the debate, then of course only the approved answers get talked aboutMy frustrations from
yesterday
So why was I a little short
yesterday?
It's that damn double standard again. So I am going to belabor the obvious for just a bit. Why is is that the Why is it that it's axiomatic that the financial collapse was a failure of capitalism when for the last century there has been a greater and greater government intervention in the free markets? Why aren't the actions of the government subject to the same criticisms as the supposed excesses of all businesses? Why is it that every single time there is a shooting, the only answer that anyone debates is more gun control? Never mind that the only thing known to reduce shootings is the fact that there may be armed citizens out there who might have better guns and better training than the "rampaging shooter." It's also one of the few things that we know reduces violent crime. If the criminal doesn't know how many of the crowd out there is armed, who is armed, or what they are armed with, then the criminal thinks twice. If there aren't ready made victims, then the shooter doesn't get his power games. Why is it that when there is a celebrity skiing accident, it's a call for more government in health care and insurance? Never mind that accidents happen no matter what the intentions. Never mind that the trauma medicine and medical evac helicopters barely exist in a universal health care system. Finally, why is it that government promises no risk when a better life means risk? _____ Update - Regular reader BTHO pointed out on 24Feb2010 that the correct term is anthropogenic, not anthropomorphic. 
Posted: Tue - March 24, 2009 at 01:52 PM
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