Wednesday, October 20, 2010

KARL ROVE IS CORRECT ABOUT THE BAGGERS

Raw Story reports what Karl Rove told Der Spiegel about the Baggers:
"If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated," Rove said in an interview with the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel published online Tuesday. "It's not like these people have read the economist Friedrich August von Hayek."
We know the Baggers haven't read The Road to Serfdom because in it, Hayek backs government involvement in the health care system:
Nor is there any reason why the state should not assist individuals in providing for those common hazards of life against which, because of their uncertainty, few individuals can make adequate provision. Where, as in the case of sickness and accident, neither the desire to avoid such calamities nor the efforts to overcome their consequences are as a rule weakened by the provision of assistance, where, in short, we deal with genuinely insurable risks, the case for the state helping to organise a comprehensive system of social insurance is very strong. There are many points of detail where those wishing to preserve the competitive system and those wishing to supersede it by something different will disagree on the details of such schemes; and it is possible under the name of social insurance to introduce measures which tend to make competition more or less ineffective. But there is no incompatibility in principle between the state providing greater security in this way and the preservation of individual freedom.

3 comments:

Ken Hoop said...

http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=169769

Denninger tell tea party to screw off. But I doubt if Rove appreciates KD's authentic right wing populist approach.

Steve J. said...

Ken,

Thanx for the tip!

Ken Hoop said...

Rove himself is exposed on Mother Jones blog today.

"Superrich Donors Behind The Curtain."