Sunday, November 01, 2009

The day the public option returned to New Orleans 

Four years ago, a cleansing natural disaster presented New Orleans with an opportunity to start over, and replace its crippling institutions of welftardism with a more hopeful, capitalist alternative. But the entrenched liberal interests would not allow the city to pull itself up from the floodwater by its bootstraps. They made sure an insidious "public option" was reinstated, and now private businesses must compete against a government entitlement funded by tax dollars.

Jeffrey reflects on this tragic turning point, which he chronicled in 2005.

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posted by oyster @ 5:23 PM
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Yeah, and how can TV networks like HBO compete with "free" stations like Fox?

The mind boggles.

By Blogger Michael, at 6:21 PM  

I remember this being one of Jesse "Goatfucker" Helms' tangential arguments to dismantle NPR back before they sold out to Velvetta, back in the early days of the Reagan Reversals, to wit: "Why should we subsidize public news to compete with commercial news?"
Still searching for that position, but I know I heard him say it.
This was more focused towards the PBS news shows, and in particular Bill Moyers, I suspect.

I'll get out in front of any public library and they will have to pry my book from these cold dead fingers.

By Anonymous Editilla~New Orleans Ladder, at 7:57 PM  

welftardism.

i'm stealing that word.


i promise to give a hat tip to you when ever i use it.

By Blogger GENTILLY YARD ART, at 10:08 PM  

I kind of do relish the thought that I was privileged with the opportunity to help bring teh socialism back to NOLA... even if it meant working alongside actual jack-boots (Blackwater) for a time.

By Blogger jeffrey, at 10:39 AM