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When "socialists" and Warren Buffet and Bill Gates, the Tory party in the UK, the US Democratic Party all say the same words, one has to ask.

We are committed to an NHS that is free at the point of use and available to everyone based on need, not the ability to pay. We want to free NHS staff from political micromanagement, increase democratic accountability and give patients the power to choose the treatments that are best for them.

UK Conservative Party Platform.

The socialist parties as organizations with mass blue collar worker/union membership and with social welfare as a distinctive program had a certain intellectual coherency. When "socialists" mostly consist of a small cadre of  middle class "activists" on the left or essentially indistinguishable technocrats on the socialist right (as in the French Socialist Party), that coherency is long gone.

by rootless2 on Wed May 25th, 2011 at 01:40:03 PM EST
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Be interested in your thoughts on my comment here

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere
by ATinNM on Wed May 25th, 2011 at 02:00:50 PM EST
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We are committed to an NHS that is free at the point of use and available to everyone based on need, not the ability to pay. We want to free NHS staff from political micromanagement, increase democratic accountability and give patients the power to choose the treatments that are best for them.

- UK Conservative Party Platform.

Tories lie. Film at 11.

- Jake

Austerity can only be implemented in the shadow of a concentration camp.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Wed May 25th, 2011 at 02:28:00 PM EST
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