Y'know how republicans want us all to believe that the private sector can solve all our problems?

and how they loathe the very idea of "socialized' medicine" or "regulated banking" or "regulated home insurance" or regulated energy plans"??

These are the same people who see NOTHING wrong with mega-mergers/mass-consolidations..

The argument they use is, that once these companies all merge, they can be MORE efficient..serve us better...and offer us lower prices.

They said it about cable..they said it about phone service..they said it about banking..they said it about air travel..they said it about agrigulture/mega-farms..

They want us to believe that consolidating everything into fewer and fewer private hands does us a service, and yet the very idea of consolidating medical care into one entity is somehow a bad idea..

food for thought..

that the rwingers are not logical.

Everything makes sense again. However they don't need to make sense, they just need to confuse enough people to scrape out their little monopolies, deregulate as much as possible, and then rake in the money.

Politics that's infested our Politics. and our Dems...suck up to it as "enablers" as Dem Light...:-(

"Where were they?"

I won't disagree that "big government" is bad. Yet nobody has said how "big corporation" is really any better.

They also claimed offshoring would allow lower prices. Well, Microsoft Office 2007 and Vista cost far more than XP and are buggier than hell*; so all those offshored jobs haven't done a damn bit of good. Dell's PCs are shite; their support worse (trust me, they cook books regarding corporate monitor extended warranty replacement plans that make no sense, particularly as LCD is said to be expensive - why do they allow such waste?) I could go on.

* Vista has proven itself buggy over time. Particularly with WGA-related issues, but there are others... Office 2007 is still quite stable, much to my surprise.

A natural reponse from those who own those private monopolies.

:(

The private companies who have replaced them CARE ABOUT MONEY MONEY MONEY.

The truth!!!! WHERE IS YOUR TAX DOLLARS BEST SPENT: ON PEOPLE WHO SERVE YOU OR PEOPLE WHO SERVE MONEY?

Simple questions.

Who is your government serving,...with your money?

Thanks, you say it well, and great replies, too.