The problem is the decay of families and attendent dysfunctionalisms of the black inner city just get worse and worse while our uncritical media spreads black underclass values to latinos and lower class whites.
And at a certain point, society is compelled to favor order and fixing things over “individual freedom to be all the dissolute welfare mammy or gangsta tough a person can be.”
That means Hartford, CT after 2 months of black gang war just imposed a curfew.
LA is seeing Asians, whites, and especially Latins working to ethnically cleanse blacks to get safer neighborhoods.
In DC, police are now setting up Baghdad-style traffic barriers and checkpoints allowing evening admission to certain areas only by residents, homeowners, and people who can prove they work or have business there.
From Miami to Las Vegas to Seattle, people are trading “freedom” for gated communities. And paying a premium to do so.
LA imposed restrictions of fast food to cut down on the taxpayer burden of medical care for corpulent ghetto people?
BFD.
And, as for health care, only the US, of all advanced countries, has the disgrace of 1/6th of working Americans w/o health insurance r regular access to medical and dental care – while welfare folks, illegals, and prisoners are subsidized by the rest of us. Only the US has the disgrace of a million medical bankruptcies and a slow slide to the bottom 1/5th of advanced nations in terms of life expectancy and general fitness of it’s population.
Adding to the disgrace, Americans pay 25% to 60% more per capita than any other advanced nation for that poor overall medical care, while 1/6th of our working population and their families are left in danger of financial wipeout from a single accident or condition – which encourages those people to spend what they make, and not have a single asset that hospital bill collectors and lawyers can take away.
Capitalism has failed to make for a cheaper, more efficient and accessible medical care system. Health insurance is up 44% in cost in the Bush years, making it more unaffordable to private self-employed workers and group employee insurance plans, and it kills our exports because health care costs in America are built into each product or service we try to sell internationally.
Since capitalism failed to make a rational, efficient system given human nature and a moral commitment not to euthanize Alzheimer veggies or leave poor kids to die of common ailments – we need a sensible health insurance system that all can afford to be in, and aggressive cost-cutting of overhead like the French, Germans, and Japanese have imposed as they boost life expectancy.
In that sense, what Romney and Schwarzenegger have done is solid leadership on reforming health care and poor nutrition in ghettos by people that can’t care for themselves in a system of pure “capitalist freedom”.
I suppose you could throw Mitt and Arnie and Huck, and all the social order & compassionate care evangelicals out of the Party and just make the Republicans a movement supported by 10% of the country. Meaning the wealthy Corporatists and those with fealty to the fatcats.
