Getting To The Meat Of It

At the health care debacle today the Campaigner-In-Chief used the analogy of meat inspectors to show how government is not only an absolute good but a necessity in regulating private industry. Sure, without meat inspectors, meat would be cheaper, but at what cost to consumer health? None, and if you're surprised by that you need a lesson in free markets.

This is the perfect analogy to show why democrats are dead wrong about capitalism. All you need to do is take a look at what has happened to Toyota to see the truth. What happened when their cars showed faulty gas and brake pedals? People stopped buying Toyota. There is no greater incentive to improve than when the market turns against you. Toyota did not intentionally put faulty pedals in their cars, and since it took almost a year for the problem to be exposed no government inspector would have discovered the problem either. Toyota knows what they need to do and they don't need anyone to tell them what to do, least of all the US government.

So back to Bama's meat inspector analogy. Does anyone believe for one second that if people started getting food poisoning from Oscar Mayer bologna that Oscar Mayer wouldn't do absolutely everything it could and then some to crack down on quality control? But it goes even deeper than that, because Oscar Mayer never wants that to happen in the first place, their quality control has to be impeccable. Meat inspectors are just a bunch of union schlubs who spend all day watching the clock, not the meat. The industry self-regulates, and inspectors only get in the way.

So yeah, get rid of all the government inspectors, and free markets will self regulate to the highest standards, and Americans' food dollars will go a lot farther as a result!

So Bama is once again proven wrong on a basic tenet of our capitalist society. We can't trust anything he does, because he just doesn't understand how this country actually works.