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04/14/10
Socialized Reading
There's no way to know what Charles Shulz was thinking when he made this strip in 1963, but it's such a perfect metaphor for the health care debate that if someone made this same joke today there would be no doubt about its intended meaning.
But then, the debate over government-paid health care plans goes back decades, so who knows? Maybe Shulz really did embed a commentary on the paranoia of anti-Socialism in Peanuts.
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Comment from: Mikey Bishop [Visitor]
I think people forget that basically no country is completely captialist and no country is completely socialist. America, and everyone else, has always been on a continuum. Without socialism we wouldn't have things like fire departments (God bless them), police departments, highways, product safety standards and truth-in-advertising laws. That being said, the cost of healthcare admist an already burdgeoning national debt is pretty scary. The government is notoriously bad at estimating the cost of things (especially cost beyond ten years since ten years is as far out as the CBO estimates). I had a professor in college who said "If Republicans create a program expect it to cost double what they say. If Democrats create the program, expect it to be triple."
The End.
04/15/10 @ 07:13
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