Quote of Note: Do We Now Need Government for Big Ticket Items?

“Health is potentially a big-ticket item, but so is a house and a car, and most folks manage to handle those without a Government Accommodation Plan or a Government Motor Vehicles System — or, at any rate, they did in pre-bailout America.”

-Mark Steyn, “Being Taken Care of Weakens Us,” Washington Times, June 15, 2009



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