On a mission to root out evil in the world, that's the liberal way

July 29, 10:57 AMHartford Conservative ExaminerJohn Talleos

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  In the health care debate here is how liberals look at the problem.  In the world there are good guys and bad guys.  In health care there are bad guys comprising of "greedy" insurance companies and "rich" medical professions who charge whatever they please.  The good guys are politicians (yes politicians) who will stick it to them by imposing price controls and forcing the insurance companies to take on customers after they get injured.  It doesn't stop there.  If you run a company with any number of employees and don't give them health insurance, you're a bad guy and will have to pay a fine ($100 a day) for each person on the payroll.

  It matters very little that government has a history of failure in private industry or even in health care.  What is important is that they are the heroes and they are rooting out the villains.  Government is the source of ultimate good. When people are left to their own devices it turns into people having too much while others ending up with too little, not fair.  And when something is "not fair" that's bad and government needs to step in and level things off as though society were a playground and one kid had more candy than another.

  How easy is it to solve a problem when all you have to do is size it up to good versus evil.  Just eliminate the evil and the most important thing of all is the feeling of being morally superior to everyone else.  This is the same morality play that comic books are made of.   Just look at the environmental debate, the goal is "saving the planet" just like Superman.  In a recent New York Times editorial on the environment they lament that "humans" not just plain old "us" or "we" but in journalistic objectivity jargon "humans" they say "kill" (oh no, what are the damn humans doing now?) "...kill 73 million sharks every year, nearly all for consumption, mainly in shark fin soup." 

  The editorial goes on "The fins are cut off and the bodies dumped overboard, a barbaric practice known as finning. Commercial fishermen are taking more and more sharks for their meat as well."  What are fishermen? "Barbarians" that's what.  They go on to say

 "The species whose numbers the sharks once controlled begin to explode; they then wipe out smaller fish, some of which humans depend on for food."  Here's the solution...let the "humans" eat shark, makes for great soup, don't laugh, "Water quality suffers. Healthy oceans require sharks, and without healthy oceans, healthy fisheries are impossible."  Killing shark is bad for fisheries is like saying killing cows is bad for grasseries.  What's a fishery anyway?  

  After completing their mission against barbarians in the open sea to save the oceans, the editorial board thereby broke for lunch and ordered tuna-fish sandwich's.  After lunch it was time to concentrate on land matters:

 "Chrysler and General Motors just emerged from bankruptcy proceedings. Chrysler is managed by Fiat. G.M. is majority-owned by the government. All are still reeling from falling sales and face a temptation to forget the environment and focus on making money."

 Bad bad bad. Destroying the planet and for what? To make money, dollars they call it.  Can't we all just get along without dollars?  The evil thing here is the companies are attempting to make cars that people..er "humans" want to actually buy like Camaro's, Mustang's and Challengers.  These car's the Times notes increase "carbon footprints" even though they run on tires not shoes.  The car the Times wants them to sell, Chevy Malibu sedan, has been discontinued, or as they put it  "...was killed in June because of lackluster sales." and then thrown overboard, emphasis added.

  Never mind the obvious and that is companies can't survive without money, the important thing here is that they do good things not bad things.  We can all drive small ugly cars and eat, well, who knows what to eat now, because we will be good humans and they could feel good about themselves because they made it happen.