Russian Bear –
This is amazing. Why are you charging your dental patients so much that they are forced to live with cavities? If you practice what you preach, you should cut down your prices in half, to help the “disadvantaged.” Yes, this will reduce your income, but according to the latest liberal trend, your earnings are subject to popular opinions. If they tell us that the oil companies are price-gouging, why can’t we say that the dentists are price-gouging as well?
Cut down your fees or shut up. You sound like a hypocrite.
If you do cut down your fees and still have money left after taxes, give half of it as a volunteer donation to the government. If you like Obama’s ideas so much, you should also be willing to trust more of your money to the government. Otherwise you’re just a hypocrite.
But you won’t do that. You will still charge market rates for your services and you will still find ways to pay less in taxes to sustain your comfortable lifestyle. And that is fine by me – as long as you don’t promote policies that would raise taxes on other people. That would make you a hypocrite.
Where do you think the government gets its money for “charity?” Or do you think it makes its own money?
In the Soviet times, which you seem to like, medical salaries were a little above those of street sweepers and a little below those of construction workers. Why don’t you show the way to the glorious future of American medicine by personal example, give up your lifestyle, and start living like an erstwhile Soviet doctor?
It’s the only way you can live up to the liberal morality that you advocate. And if you don’t practice what you preach, you’re a hypocrite.
As for your suggestion to take a risk and elect Obama, imagine that I would come to your medical office and ask you to hire a manager who is a risk and may mess up, but you can have him fired if he goes wrong way. You would call me crazy and you would be right. Now, how do you expect me to think of people who advocate for Obama?
FYI, America is not as capitalistic as you think. The closest it came to pure capitalism was in the 19th century. After that it’s been going through gradual socialization and nationalization. With all the government regulations and other impositions, it’s a MIXED economy. It’s true that America is not as socialized as Europe – that’s why Europe has been stagnant while America remains more or less dynamic – but it’s only a matter of degree. The tendencies are there and the Democrats are working hard to keep them up. So your statement that capitalism in this country is unshakable is at least naive.
