"Government should get out of health care"

[SHRED]

"They can't do anything right"

I think a good response to this rightwing nonsense would be...

"Yeah...they should get out of the war business".

[DetlefK]

1. Bad idea. They could get the idea to outsource the military to corporations.

Why should american citizens risk their lives? Let's hire some mercs for that.

As a french general once said about the Foreign Legion: "If things go wrong, at least there are no frenchmen in the caskets."

[SHRED]

2. good point

I was thinking more of the idea that our government shouldn't start wars like Iraq and Afghanistan.

Kind of a crude point I know but I am so damn frustrated by people I meet who have no problem blurting out talkingpoints about how our government is is to blame for everything. These are RW talkingpoints based on privatization as if that will make it all better.

It is amazing to me just how many RW'ers I meet who are so willing to blurt out their contempt for this President and our government as if everyone feels and thinks like them. It reminds me of religious freaks in that they do the same. Damn rude.

[rock]

6. Right you are

The government would still be in the war business if they used mercs. I.e the government would still be engaged in war. (And the mercs would undoubtedly cost more.)

[Adrahil]

3. Ask if they think that guy in New York who died in a private ER would agree. NT

[malaise]

4. No a good response is that is why ReTHUGs kept a dead woman

on a respirator against her family's wishes. Nail that to Perry, Abbott and ReTHUGs in Texas.

[Downwinder]

5. Politicians should quit practicing medicine without a license.