Fables for Adults by Thomas Sowell
http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/09/15/fables_for_adults?page=full
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Many years ago, as a small child, I was told one of those old-fashioned fables for children. It was about a dog with a bone in his mouth, who was walking on a log across a stream.
The dog looked down into the water and saw his reflection. He thought it was another dog with a bone in his mouth-- and it seemed to him that the other dog's bone was bigger than his. He decided that he was going to take the other dog's bone away and opened his mouth to attack. The result was that his own bone fell into the water and was lost.
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Whether we are supposed to take that bone away from the doctors, the hospitals, the pharmaceutical companies or the insurance companies, the net result is likely to be the same-- most of us will end up with worse medical care than we have available today. We will have opened our mouth and dropped a very big bone into the water.
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Read the entire column here: http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/09/15/fables_for_adults?page=full
20090915 Fables for Adults Thomas Sowell
http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/09/15/fables_for_adults?page=full
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Many years ago, as a small child, I was told one of those old-fashioned fables for children. It was about a dog with a bone in his mouth, who was walking on a log across a stream.
The dog looked down into the water and saw his reflection. He thought it was another dog with a bone in his mouth-- and it seemed to him that the other dog's bone was bigger than his. He decided that he was going to take the other dog's bone away and opened his mouth to attack. The result was that his own bone fell into the water and was lost.
[…]
Whether we are supposed to take that bone away from the doctors, the hospitals, the pharmaceutical companies or the insurance companies, the net result is likely to be the same-- most of us will end up with worse medical care than we have available today. We will have opened our mouth and dropped a very big bone into the water.
[…]
Read the entire column here: http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/09/15/fables_for_adults?page=full
20090915 Fables for Adults Thomas Sowell
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