<<And which of the rich is richer or more of a bastard than the government itself?>>
What a question! They ARE the fucking "government," don't you get it yet?
<<Government is a landlord second to none in cruelty , and our government is not any more trustworthy with greater ritches or power than any other.>>
You make up the most ridiculous of generalities out of your head with no evidence to back any of it up and with two whole centuries of American history behind you to provide you with hundreds and even thousands of examples of the cruelty of capitalism, of business. It's as if the history of labour exploitation, massacres of striking workers, child labour in the mines, share-cropping, the fight for the 8-hour day and the 5-day week, etc., etc. have just been wiped clean off the slate and into the memory hole and all we are left with are empty platitudes like yours which take no account of history or even common sense. MY government can sometimes act like a bunch of ass-holes, cover up horrific crimes, etc., but by and large it takes care of me, my family and our fellow citizens. It is NOT "second to none in cruelty," that is one of the most ridiculous and absurd statements I could ever imagine. Based on . . . ? Based on absolutely nothing except the decades of Cold War brain-washing bullshit that you and all Americans have been subjected to and now take as Gospel.
<<The best feature our government has is a collar and a leash that the people can shorten, as you have just been dismayed to observe, we did.>>
"The people," my ass! Say the insurance industry and its captive corporate MSM and you'll be a whole lot more credible.
<<Your contempt for the wisdom of the common man fits you well in the group that Kruthamner was criticiseing in the article we were reading a cupple of days ago, I think that every victory of the common man will leave you gasping in indignation.>>
Amazing how the dupes of the Big Money all spout the same nonsense, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini BOTH claimed that their movement represented the masses. What a joke - - the masses as served by the corporate state. The masses totally shorn of any claim on the means of production! The "victory" of the common man left the rich in full possession of all of the obscene profits that they can rip off from the healthy, the sick and the dying "common man" and left the "common man" fucked up the ass as usual, 47 million of them uninsured, 22,000 of them dying every year needlessly, due to lack of insurance and no remedy in sight.
That is some "victory" for the common man - - or at least for any "common man" who happens to own an insurance company.