Eeeeesh...

Kevin Baker wrote an essay titled The Mystery of Government. It was a response to a commenter who's of the more liberal bent. One of the keeper quotes (out of hundreds) is this:

You proposed that "People in our government are, for the most part, competent and effective." That may be true, but it does not mean that those people may not also be corrupt and evil. These characteristics are not mutually exclusive. Someone can be corrupt, competent, effective and evil, all at the same time.

Government, or more importantly the power and money that government control can provide attracts evil and corrupt people. Oh, there may be people there who aren't evil and corrupt, who go into public service to actually serve the public, but they are the minority. People who crave power are attracted to the greatest source of power, which to our detriment is the government right now. THAT is why I feel that the government needs to be as small and as weak as possible. Because when you give the government too much power, you get the wrong people in charge.

Take for example this little story out of Florida:

WellCare Health Plans of Tampa, a firm which has made scads of money administering government health care, and huge profits for George Soros, who was once its largest shareholder, has been raided by the FBI and shuttered.

When you control huge amounts of money, there will be people out there trying to get their hands on that money. What better way to steal money than to be in control of the purse-strings?

WellCare's business practices have come under increased criticism over the past several months. Last spring, the company said independent sales agents in Georgia enrolled dead people in Medicare plans. In May and June, WellCare representatives appeared along with other insurance executives at hearings in the Senate and House into aggressive Medicare marketing practices. WellCare and six other insurers subsequently agreed to a temporary halt in marketing one type of Medicare plan, while promising to initiate consumer safeguards. In August, however, Medicare cited WellCare once again for violating several provisions of its Medicare contract, including sales practices.

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WellCare was started in 1985 by a group of Tampa doctors, who sold the company to investors led by financier George Soros in 2002. Soros will remain majority shareholder, with two representatives on WellCare's board, following the IPO.

George Soros - pushing for MORE government control whenever possible. Why? Because as a dear friend and money donor to the Democrat American Communist Party, the more control they have the more money he can funnel into his pockets.

Government is not the solution. GOVERNMENT IS THE PROBLEM!