Sabotage by Failure

I was listening to a debate about health care the other day. The subject was whether the government should or should not be responsible for Health Care. The anti panelist was arguing that after the government failed so utterly at Katrina, "you want to turn over health care to the government?"

The next pro panelist immediately responded with the point that having a bad administration screw something up and then using that to justify your position for something that you don't want to do anyway is awfully convenient.

I just tried to find another reference, which escaped me. I was listening to a book review (sorry, can't remember the book) that had some strange and disturbing assertions. The thesis was that conservatives liked to get into government to run it into the ground, thus making it impossible for government to interfere in business. The interview also talked about how President Clinton went into office with plans to provide health care, and the budget deficit was so bad that it was impossible to implement any health care plan. The book that was being reviewed was supposed to show how conservatives like big deficits because it limits the size of government.

This is juvenile. If there is any truth in this assertion, if people either consciously or subconsciously are trashing our government institutions in order to profit more and more easily, this is disheartening. I understand wanting to get ahead, I can even understand greed. But greed that is so short sighted that it's easy to see how it destroys the very society that you hope to live luxuriously in.