Why do Conservatives klike to see this country robbed and destroyed by free enterprise?

Question

Latest example of "free enterprise" ripping people off getting tax dollars, not doing things better with competition:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/us/07medicare.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Answer 1

I think maybe one or two conservatives actually read the link. The issue is the fact that our tax dollars are going to private companies like Humana and UHC, while they are screwing over the Medicare patients they are supposed to be helping. This isn't a case of government bueracracy. It's blatant Corporate Welfare at the expense of the taxpayer. If the Government wants to privatize a huge social program like this, they damn well better make sure that those companies who they are giving away our tax dollars to, and who are entrusted to take care of the insured... do their job!

Answer 2

Look at Microsoft Windows if you want a perfect example of Free Enterprise at work.

True, Microsoft does engage in unethical business practices but they also have turned out a product that took the computer from something only Geeks could use to something any brain dead person could use, and many seem to.

I see you are not using Linux, are you?

Dump Windows and get on Linux if you hate Free Enterprise Monopolies so much!

All Left Wingers should Dump Microsoft Windows or shut up about Free Enterprise!

Now if you want to compare Government Health Care to Private Health Care I suggest you join the military and then either adopt or have a child with tremendous medical problems, Spina Bifiida maybe or HIV. Then you can tell me how GREAT Socialized medicine and Government Health care are compared to Privatized health care.

Has to be a dependent though, preferably an adopted dependent so you can't use them as a media toy.

Answer 3

You are a shining example of our public school system. And please everyone, do not denigrate the public school system. As we all know, Government does EVERYTHING better than is possible under a free enterprise system. Isn't everyone looking forward to the efficiencies our government will bring to the health care industry? Why, people will come from EVERYWHERE around the globe to sit in our waiting rooms, read our year-old magazines, and wonder why there aren't enough doctors..

Answer 4

While I first heard the term neoliberalism more than a decade ago on short-wave radio, the term is not heard often in the mainstream media even today. It is as if this word, containing the middle string of characters, "liberal", is to be shunned and shied away from by those who profusely profess neoliberalism. Yet, the perpetrators of prejudice toward the word liberal have become their own victims to this latest name calling since they themselves are the neoliberals. It is the conservative US Capitalists who have trained the country to denigrate the L-world thereby having to distance themselves from the word itself. And who said that words are not powerful remakers and reshapers of the world we see or want to be seen?

Neoliberalism is the process by which the free enterprise system and its "democracy" are touted around the world as the only successful model for the world to emulate, while ignoring its enormous failures domestically and internation-ally. The "free market" philosophy is professed to be the only viable economic system on the planet yet those professing it are beneficiaries of anything but the free market. They receive incredible tax breaks and perks subsidized by the people struggling to make a decent living. "Free enterprise" institutions are excellent examples of non-democratic power structuring. Conservatives for the most part are neoliberals benefiting the most from government subsidies to corporations through moneys collected from the poorest in society and diverted upward to the top. Neoliberalism is a form of socialism for the rich ¾ a bad idea for the working and oppressed but a cherished ideal for the rich. Why should not all the people benefit from this highly touted philosophy?

Answer 5

You are calling Medicares "huge new drug benefit program" free enterprise???
"getting tax dollars" is free enterprise??

What this article is about is - abuses of a government healthcare program.

I think you're on the wrong side of right here!

Answer 6

First, and foremost, medicare is not a form of free enterprise.
Medicare, and Medicaid are controlled by the government, not the free market..Hence the problem with the two.

Answer 7

We klike anything to do with death, misery and robbery by free enterprise. What's not to klike? Oh, I forgot suffering. That's our favorite.

Answer 8

Free Enterprise built this country. You need to go back to school and learn a little something. Your stupidity is shining too brightly.

Answer 9

I would rater the private sector do it than a pin head in government

Answer 10

Because it is way better than lib handouts (which teaches no personal responsibility) and socialism is not the way to go Think First