Tuesday, June 15, 2004

Progress
I put all the baby stuff away yesterday; today I must write thank you notes. (My wedding thank you note experience has been sufficient to convince me of the urgency of doing thank you notes immediately, before people move or forget who you are.)

I am also working on a letter to the editor in response to a Howard Dean column in our local paper, in which he complains that the richest, most advanced country in the world doesn't have the universal health care system that even poor countries have. Liberals apparently believe that wealth is distributed randomly over the world, like water, and that all we need is a more equitable irrigation system. Wealth is more like those endangered species they want to protect: it only flourishes under the right circumstances.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

"Liberals apparently believe that wealth is distributed randomly over the world, like water, and that all we need is a more equitable irrigation system."

This is indeed exactly what they think; and in addition, that life is a zero-sum game, and that the poor cannot have more unless they take it from the rich (or more likely, in practice, the middle class). But of course, you knew this, and are being rhetorical.

Auntie M.