Just had to pass this on ...
Fables for Adults
By Thomas Sowell (Jewish World Review Sept. 15, 2009)
"Many years ago, as a small child, I was told one of those
old-fashioned fables for children.
It was about a dog with a bone in his mouth, who was walking on a
log across a stream. The dog looked down into the water and saw his
reflection. He thought it was another dog with a bone in his mouth
-- and it seemed to him that the other dog's bone was bigger
than his.
He decided that he was going to take the other dog's bone away
and opened his mouth to attack. The result was that his own bone
fell into the water and was lost.
At the time, I didn't like that story and wished they
hadn't told it to me. But the passing years and decades
have made me realize how important that story was, because it was
not really about dogs but about people.
Today we are living in a time when the President of the United
States is telling us that he is going to help us take that other
dog's bone away -- and the end result is likely to be very much
like what it was in that children's fable.
Whether we are supposed to take that bone away from the doctors,
the hospitals, the pharmaceutical companies or the insurance
companies, the net result is likely to be the same -- most of us
will end up with worse medical care than we have available today.
We will have opened our mouth and dropped a very big bone into the
water."
