Organs For Health Care
It’s always astonishing to see, just when you think Friedman has completely lost his mind, he always has a little more left to lose. Here he is, saying we should be like the People’s Republic of China, model of modern advancement, thanks to the efficiency of its “one-party autocracy,” as opposed to our “one-party democracy.”
I’m not going to use this as an opportunity to throw cheap digs at the haplessness of the one party and its pols who currently hold the White House, the House and the Senate. Again. Nor am I going to mock Friedman for his apparent willingness to resolve any momentary American electoral gaffes by going straight to kleptocratic dictatorship. Theoretically, in an American police state, he’d want the same crowd in power that already has power, so I don’t see where that gets us.
In the spirit of bi-partisanship, I’d rather work with Friedman, especially since he might be 3rd deputy assistant Politburo secretary someday, and I don’t want to spend the rest of my career waste-deep in a tub of hybrid vehicle battery acid. I just want to note a major beneficial aspect of the one-party autocracy system that Friedman left out. The work camps for political prisoners. Not only would they be a great place to throw angry peasants and annoying right-wing talk show hosts, shutting them up and making them a useful source of cheap labor for jobs that undocumented comrades don’t want to do, like working in vats full of whatever chemicals they need to make all the ”green” stuff. But the government also could sell their organs to help pay for universal health care.
There, that’s my idea.
Topics: China, Obama, media, moronocy, pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 12:00 pm on Wednesday, September 9, 2009
5 Responses to “Organs For Health Care”
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September 9th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
The People of the World Will Surely Be Victorious!!!
The revolution, and the recognition of class and class struggle, are necessary for peasants and the Chinese people to overcome both domestic and foreign enemy elements. This is not a simple, clean, or quick struggle
September 10th, 2009 at 2:00 am
It makes one wonder if he has a problem with his own ability to persuade, not to mention the whole intolerance angle.
September 10th, 2009 at 9:21 am
What a shock, pulitzer winning NYT writer admires dictatorial government for its efficiency and “progressive” policies.
Walter Duranty, meet your spiritual successor.
September 10th, 2009 at 10:54 am
Jules, this is one of many, many Friedman articles over the past few years that plaintively ask “Why can’t we be more like China?”
It’s scary to think that a supposedly thoughtful individual from “the paper of record” doesn’t see how frightening that outcome would be.
Even scarier, maybe he not only foresees but applauds the outcome.
September 10th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Maybe I’m wrong but I thought the U.S.A. was a Republic.
Does he know the difference?
Papa Ray