Can’t stand it. Gotta say something. As John Stott wrote somewhere, fuzzy thinking is one of the sins of the age. I was watching the tube this afternoon, and a commercial came on, urging us all to get behind the Affordable Health Care Rationing System, or whatever it is they are calling it these days. Boy, however teeny their understanding of economics is, their understanding of how propaganda works is first-rate, right up there with Mussolini.
Anyhow, this guy comes on, a salt-of-the-earth type, and says something like, “I’m not looking for a handout. All I want is a health care program that I and my family can afford.” All right, then, just stare at that for a few minutes. And did you react to it the same way you would to a panhandling wino who said, “I’m not looking for a handout. All I want is five bucks”?