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Oil is getting too expensive? Invest in oil futures. Health care costs are getting out of control? De-regulate the industry and costs will decline--as they invariably do whenever the idiocracy calling itself the Government of the United States takes its hands off the wheel. i-against-i
Having the people with spare wealth invest in oil futures during a worsening oil crisis is, like investing in weapons companies during wartime, a means to making money which has some pretty ugly connoations.
Deregulation of the insane health care system in this country will have the same wonderful effect that deregulation of those Wall Street hedge funds had, so maybe we ought to stop digging our hole deeper and move to a single payer healthcare system. Works for other countries.
As for our Government, it works well when it is run by people who care about it working well; it is an idiotocracy when run by Republicans and smirking chimps.
