Oliver Sykes Dead, Except for Dick Cheney, David Brooks must be the only man who has read Charles Dickens and imagines himself as the workhouse manager rather than the starving boy asking for more food. He admires, too, Scrooge and his counting houses, not the Bob Cratchets who make them work. His refrain for the holidays is, “Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses,”Consider David Brooks’ lament about our moral values. He frames the health care debate and the Senate’s upcoming vote on reform legislation with this question: Can you responsibly vote for this legislation to increase security today, if the cost is less economic “vitality” tomorrow? The “moral choice” for Bobo is clear: future business vitality trumps individual vitality and family health. He gets there by neatly synthesizing Republican talking points and by reducing to passive abstraction millions of Americans denied medical treatment by our bizarre and unsustainable health insurance system. He then reassures Republicans that they will be “responsible stewards” of tomorrow when they say no to demands for greater “comfort” today. Because we just can’t afford it. Tell that to two thousand people lined up all night at a free clinic in hopes of seeing their first doctor or dentist in six years.Read More Read More
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