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Jim Nakamura (jzero@netcom.com) wrote:
: dcitron@gate.net (D. Citron) writes:
: > Jim Nakamura (jzero@netcom.com) wrote:
: > : 	But if the AMA can use govt to enhance its interests,
: > : 	why can't consumers do the same?  Single payer would
: > : 	ride herd on doctors' fees and kick insurance
: > : 	companies out of business.  (Don't forget that the
: > : 	insurance industry has also used govt to enhance
: > : 	its interests too.)
: > The point is, NEITHER should. Governmental powers shouldn't be used to 
: > enhance ANY special interest at the expense of everyone else. Not the 
: > doctors, the tobacco farmers, the unions, the insurance companies, the 
: > utility companies, the minorities, the majority, the needy, or the 
: > greedy. 
: > The SOLE purpose of government is to protect people from theft and coercion, 
: > not to enable coercion on behalf of or to benefit the politically potent 
: > at the expense of the rest!!!

: 	Sarcasm:
: 	That's all fine and dandy and I applaud your idealism.
: 	Now go upstairs and do your homework so daddy can
: 	watch TV.
(too stupid for a reply)

: 	Pragmatic:
: 	Everyone is using the govt to get what it can get.
: 	That's why govt is hostage to special interests.
: 	Consumer groups just have to play the same game,
: 	because it's the only game in town.

Evidently your mommy never told you that two wrongs don't make a right. 
You're obviously a member of the gimme generation, zero. 

Some of us truly believe that government should stop playing this game. 
Read Bastiat's "The Law", which was written in France in the 1840, but is 
still applicable today.

Consumers as a special interest group have no moral superiority over any 
other special interest. In fact, they are worse, because they pretend to 
be altruists, while the others are at least honest about their 
self-interest!