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1. aggieb+(OP)[view] [source] 2008-07-11 22:16:28
The sorry decline of General Motors has proved Reuther right: the government is the better provider of social insurance. Let industry worry about selling products.

Huh? Seems to me that this just proved that the market is a better provider of "social insurance" in the form of products people want (i.e., medical care at market prices) than anything collective offered by either the unions or the government. Hasn't this guy ever heard of Social Security and it's looming insolvency? Why don't the same arguments apply? Just think...how much easier it would be for the government to prop up the financial sector temporarily (not that I'm for that...just following the argument here) if it didn't have 3 limbs tied behind it's back by SS/Medicare/Medicaid?

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