re: #219 Sol Berdinowitz

Because even Adam F*ing Smith pointed out that free enterprise and free markets are there to benefit eveyone, not just the producers.

And that’s what ACA is about - to make the markets work to everyone’s benefit.

You have to remember that maybe 5% of those who quote (or rather misquote) Smith have actually read any of him. His comments on banks and on the necessity of public schooling would horrify most of the so-called conservatives. Make them read his book on ethics and they’d run screaming. Can you imagine Randian’s reading this:

The Theory of Moral Sentiments begins with the following assertion:
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortunes of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it. Of this kind is pity or compassion, the emotion we feel for the misery of others, when we either see it, or are made to conceive it in a very lively manner. That we often derive sorrow from the sorrows of others, is a matter of fact too obvious to require any instances to prove it; for this sentiment, like all the other original passions of human nature, is by no means confined to the virtuous or the humane, though they perhaps may feel it with the most exquisite sensibility. The greatest ruffian, the most hardened violator of the laws of society, is not altogether without it.

en.wikipedia.org