http://weiner.house.gov/news_display.asp...

Weiner just lived up to his name by withdrawing his amendment, which would have substituted single-payer for the House bill favored by Democratic leaders. That coward sickens me right now even more than Obama, Pelosi, Emanuel, Hoyer, and Reid put together.

A commenter at The Agonist explains it all in a few well-chosen words:

Henry Ford was a tight old bastard,

but he paid his workers twice what he had to, because he understood the people making the product had to be able to afford to buy it.

The irony here is those squeezing labor, here and in China, are destroying their collective market. Not only the market for manufactured goods, but the investment markets based on manufacturing. The economy has to have a convection cycle of rising assets and precipitating benefits, or it breaks down. Healthy labor is healthy consumers. How hard is that to figure?

Alert reader jack sends in the following gem:

Classical watches display time, but can hardly do anything else. This limitation is artificial: for instance, several people confessed to be often in want of mustard... and what is the point in knowing time if you cannot get mustard?