Reply #58: It takes an effort, but the barricades work

[Quasimodem]

I don’t know if it will happen, but I agree that the barricades are the last, best hope for even so little as a public option. At that, the mob will have to stand ready to mobilize a few more times, to insure that the public option isn’t passed, toothless and emasculated.


In spite of all the American sniping at the expense of the French, the French have the best health care on the planet.

And I can't help wondering whether that fact can in any way be attributed to the French citizen’s ability to generate truly impressive anti-government demonstrations.

Unlike America, the French government treads carefully to avoid raising its constituents’ wrath, as opposed to the American system, where the citizen must fear their government’s decisions.