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Commission Imaginings

7.26.04 @ 12:01AM

SIZING UP
Re: Enemy Central's The Fat of the Land:

Why is everyone pointing their finger at Sandy Berger when it was actually his alter-ego, Inspector Clouseau, who committed the dastardly deeds?
-- Jack Hughes
Chicago, Illinois

The recent op-ed piece "The Fat of the Land" is an embarrassment --when do members of this community of thought stoop to catty remarks about left-leaning fallen musical entertainers? The entire piece is bush league and beneath the standards your readers expect of you. Shame on you.
-- Unsigned

POWER HEALTH
Re: David Hogberg's Kerry-Krugman Health Care:

In his excellent piece David Hogberg asks, "What is it about liberals and health care?" If the question isn't entirely rhetorical, I'd like to suggest that liberals don't care a bit about health care. In a brief exchange with a liberal colleague of mine in academia, I ticked off the problems with the Canadian system, and he responded with astonishing frankness that he just didn't care. What was important, apparently -- under the guise of eliminating every conceivable possibility of injustice to the sick or lame -- was that his class of people be in charge of the medical system, so that they could dispense medical justice as they saw fit.

Hogberg's concrete points are well taken by me and untold millions of others who do not want a socialized system of medical care. But forget about raising such points with the liberal policy wonks and the Kerry-Krugman-Hillary lumpenintellectuals. They don't care about medical care. They care about power.
-- John R. Dunlap
San Jose, California

Amen. I agree whole heartedly with most everything you said about health insurance. However, you left out an important component that you may not like to hear about.

Rather than universal care, what the government really can do for the health care industry is to install some price regulations. The drug companies, insurance companies, and medical providers are conspiring to make a fortune at the expense of the American public. No, universal care is not the answer. A solid antitrust suit against key companies of these three industries needs to occur, because it's pretty obvious with pricing and recently enacted legislation that nobody seems to be balancing the power of this conspiracy.

Otherwise, your defense of HSA's is admirable and on-point. Thank you.
-- Scott A. Becker
Lakeville, Minnesota

NO LACK OF IMAGINATION
Re: George Neumayr's Out of Commission:

"...the 'U.S. government should offer to join with other nations in generously supporting a new International Youth Opportunity Fund' to finance 'primary and secondary schools.' Liberals who would condemn Christian missionary activity in Muslim countries don't mind sending apostles of liberalism to them. 'We must encourage reform, freedom, democracy, and opportunity,' the Commission says..."

Hold the phone, Mr. Neumayr.

Exporting liberalism to Islamic countries makes a ton of sense to me. The mad Mullahs trying to organize midnight basketball instead of blowing us up is a real winner.

Unfortunately, the Jihaddists are pragmatic enough to understand that liberalism is a failed theology and less efficient than hacking off some innocent electrician's head at winning hearts and minds.
-- John (please withhold my last name, I'm not liberal enough to put my family at risk)
Somewhere in Illinois

This is another example of George Neumayr's extraordinary insights --concerning matters that seem obvious, but only after he has limned them. Imagine a World War II movie in which Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Arthur Kennedy and Gig Young are parachuted into Germany and they begin blowing up bridges and buildings, while traveling German roads in their U.S. uniforms and staying in public hotels and speaking English. The Germans they encounter are too polite to ask them what they're doing. Audiences would, probably correctly, have assumed the film was a comedy or fantasy. Really evil people aren't foolish enough to imperil their schemes by observance of such political correctness. On the other hand, it is quite likely that other really evil people, both inside and outside our country, are capable of imposing such a system of political correctness on our citizens, for their own purposes of our eventual subjugation. I fear so and too many of us are willing dupes.
-- J.R. Wheatley
Harper Woods, Michigan

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