“Savior-based economy”
Feb 9, 2009 Blogging's Best, Governmental Reach, Obama Administration
South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford thinks that we are better off taking the band-aid off and letting our economy heal rather than lessening the pain (and prolonging it).
We’re moving precipitously close to what I would call a savior-based economy,” Sanford also said Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union.
The South Carolina Republican said such an economy is “what you see in Russia or Venezuela or Zimbabwe or places like that where it matters not how good your product is to the consumer but what your political connection is to those in power.”
It’s scary to think, but this is exactly the description that fits right now. For instance, the original stimulus package had some unreal amount of money for the D.C. sewer system. Are they the only ones with a sewer problem? I doubt it. But it’s close enough to home for a lot of the people spending our money, and so it goes.
This is precisely the problem with universal health care. I know it sounds nice and fuzzy in a perfect world, but wait until providers that are less-qualified start getting the good gigs because of political connections to high-ranking politicians.
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