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Government shouldn’t be about a bottom line, or about lining someone’s pockets. Government should be about helping those who need help to get by. Churches and other religious or community organizations are not prepared or equipped to do this to the extent it needs doing. Government should be about helping society, and civilization, be better. No matter how advanced we become, it seems to me, there will be those who need help sometimes.
If this were the case, if government were what it should be, if the business mindset wasn’t asserting itself in places where it didn’t belong, acting as if it can run the world and that somehow that won’t make it a colder, crueler, more savage place, things like this--the Philippines ceasing to give samples of bird flue to the World Health Org, who would develop vaccines for everyone, so they can negotiate with a U.S. vaccine company to sell the samples to them instead--wouldn’t happen.
Speaking from the belly of a beast where business would like to charge the intestines for the privilege of processing shit, it’s just not the way it should be. Business has a place, and perhaps even some business practices have a place in government, but government cannot be run like a business, and everything government does, or tries to do, should not be privatized. That way lies even more madness, not less. Except for someone's pockets and bottom line, of course.
If this were the case, if government were what it should be, if the business mindset wasn’t asserting itself in places where it didn’t belong, acting as if it can run the world and that somehow that won’t make it a colder, crueler, more savage place, things like this--the Philippines ceasing to give samples of bird flue to the World Health Org, who would develop vaccines for everyone, so they can negotiate with a U.S. vaccine company to sell the samples to them instead--wouldn’t happen.
Speaking from the belly of a beast where business would like to charge the intestines for the privilege of processing shit, it’s just not the way it should be. Business has a place, and perhaps even some business practices have a place in government, but government cannot be run like a business, and everything government does, or tries to do, should not be privatized. That way lies even more madness, not less. Except for someone's pockets and bottom line, of course.
