Monday, October 19, 2009

A Thought for the Day

Substitute "health care" for "water power" in the following and you'd think these words were uttered yesterday, instead of back in 1931 by the eminent critic and social commentator Edmund Wilson (1895-1972):

"Is it not obvious that a government like our present one
is incapable of acting in good faith in even the simple
matter
of preserving the water power which is
supposed to be
operated for the general benefit
from being exploited by
private profiteers? Our
society has finally produced in
its specialized
professional politicians one of the most
useless
and obnoxious groups which has perhaps ever

disgraced human history-- a group that seems unique
among governing classes in having managed to be
corrupt, uncultivated and incompetent all at once."

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