How is anyone ever supposed to read bills when they are like this?



http://docs.house.gov/edlabor/AAHCA-BillText-071409.pdf



The Health Care Reform Bill, or the bill "To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes." What are the "other purposes"?

P.S. Thanks for the link, Liz.

What is a Republic?

http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=134889815298&h=0zNKK&u=IN7_P&ref=nf

Capitalism

"Capitalism is all about greed." This is the basic response to capitalism. To that I say, "Correct." Capitalism is, at it's core, all about greed, mutual greed. There is nothing wrong with this, as long as the lives, liberties and property of all participants are protected. It is an exchange or trading game. You have your capital--time, energy, money, goods, services, etc.--and other parties have theirs. If you value what is being offered more than you value what you already possess, you are willing to make a trade. If you feel what is being offered isn't more valuable than your capital, you decline the exchange. You trade your time and energy for wages. You trade your wages for food, clothing, toys, and many other things. You trade your services and products for money or other services and products. It is a mutual greed. You have something that someone else wants and they have something that you want. The mutual greed benefits both parties. Theoretically, everyone ends up happy. Some regulation is needed to ensure benefit for all parties (e.g., Quality Assurances, Safety Standards, Contract Law), but government involvement should be limited. Even Adam Smith agreed that some parameters need to be set. It should be remembered that the price of government is freedom and capital. We greatly value our safety and liberty, so we trade some of our freedom and money and service for protection and law. We should take care, though, to not give up so much that we lose everything we truly value. Capitalism works, and works well with limited outside involvement. You "have" because of capitalism. You are the lord of your capital and can do with it what you wish. If you want to give it all up, that is your choice; but for me, I choose to keep playing the game.

John Stossel's Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media was very insightful on the topic.