The charges of corruption resound across the airwaves. The dastardly pharmaceutical companies force our impoverished seniors to choose between food and medicine, our compassionate leaders declare. And even after numerous foreign examples of the benefits of limiting the State's role in providing retirement benefits, calls for a tiny shift in FICA taxes to private accounts conjure up images of starving retirees evicted from modest homes and rooting through garbage cans for that night's dinner. The grievances are endless. Phone charges are too high.
Breakfast cereals cost too much.
Greedy HMO's create hardships for ailing patients. Accusations are hurled willy-nilly with no respect for facts or common sense. One would think that the legal theft of trillions of dollars in wealth by those who are supposed to protect our rights would stir a hurricane of indignation in the victims. Unfortunately, people have yet to internalize the proper view of money's meaning. Calls for modest reductions in tax rates are met with condemnation of the rich.