Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Worshipping Mammon On Healthcare

By Steve Hynd


Marc Moore of Poligazette, the self-professed "moderate" group blog that somehow manages always to kiss the rings of it's far-right readership, reveals the truth about conservative opposition to single-payer healthcare.



It would be great if we could provide unlimited medical care to every man, woman, and child in America.  It really would.  But that�s unrealistic and a doctor like Murphy should know better than to get on his soap box and pretend that universal health care can be delivered without a massive transfer of wealth from the middle and upper classes to the poor and a corresponding reduction in the standard of care delivered to those who would be paying for the system.


Translation: "I've got mine!"


He's a callous son of a bitch, Marc Moore. Not for him the "greatest good of the greatest number". There's no sense of social responsibility, certainly nothing akin to "from each according to their means, to each according to their needs". That would be too socialist and his god, Mammon, might desert him - along with Poligaxette's wingnut, money-grubbing, "I'm alright Jack" readership. He just wants to have his healthcare and keep his money too.


But it's apparently a sin to say so, even if you're a doctor.



Even the debate over health care is not immune from commentators whose caustic, even violent rhetoric would be more at home at a third-world pit fight than in a democratic society...Doctor, please, your hatred of free enterprise is showing and it�s not pretty.


I personally think caustic, even violent rhetoric is perfectly justified when facing a drip of self-absorbed shit like Moore. He wants us to be nice to him because he's openly saying he's got his amd the rest of us can fuck off. And if you aren't then you must hate capitalism, not Moore's selfishness, even if the doctor he's aiming at is actually saying he'll support some level of exploitative capitalism if that's the only way to save a few more people.


Fuck that. I value respect more than snide politeness, and Moore's snide demand for politeness even as he reveals himself as a self-serving bastard deserves no respect.


/rant



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