I watched A Bug's Life with the kids today. (For those who haven't seen it, it's basically a retelling of The Seven Samurai using the fable of the ant and the grasshopper as a basis.) It's interesting watching this through the eyes of a gun nut/libertarian, especially in light of the recent socialized medicine brouhaha.
First off, given that that the ants outnumber the grasshoppers 100-to-1, if they weren't such a friggin' pacifist society, if any one of them actually owned a reasonable weapon, the whole grasshopper problem could have been nipped in the bud pretty quickly.
But this quote also struck me as being especially relevant: "It's not about the food, it's about keeping the ants in line." Yeah, it's not really about providing health care to every last person in the country, it's about taking control of 1/6th of our economy.
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