I actually agree with a lot of your points. Sure, people have healthcare and we pay into it, but the majority of people, even insured, end up bankrupted or close to after a major medical event.

And yes, we are in a corporatist system (fun fact, corporatism and fascism used to be, and probably still is, two sides of the same coin) and your lament of the rigged laws and taxes is exactly my point. It is the capitalist system, and the resulting power the capitalists (aka the corporations) have that lead to the laws and taxes you describe. It's the snake eating it's own tail.

Capitalism and free markets funnel money to the top. Always. That's the intent and purpose, with distribution of resources being a convenient side-effect of that money funneling.

I refuse to believe there isn't a system humanity has yet to stumble upon that is as punitive to and exclusionary of less fortunate individuals as capitalism is.

And let's not forget, capitalism leads to the mindset at the core of the original piece - if one is without money one is inherently lesser. Deserving of drug testing and invasive treatment just to have a chance at some sort of existence in today's society.

Yes, the vibrancy and availability of healthcare to all in the United States is living proof of how wonderfully capitalism distributes resources. I love how defenders of capitalism act like it is the final, epoch of evolution of systems to distribute resources. And that "scarcity" myth isn't even worth addressing.

... if you're a capitalist. If you accept you live in a purely capitalist society, then someone "bad at capitalism" is as a natural extension of that a "bad societal actor", or more concisely, a "bad citizen". It isn't hard to see how someone who views the world through a lens of "money is the all important" that someone without money or who is bad at managing it would be a criminal. It's wrong but I've known people who believe the abolition of debtor's prison was one of the single biggest blows to modern capitalism. Think about that. It's nuts. That being said, making the rich take drug tests before receiving those tax breaks is about as likely as the rich actually paying their fair share of taxes.

in fact... he became a sought after voice and character actor as a result. you almost have to wonder if it's because no one saw his face to associate him so heavily with the franchise.

The book is actually available for purchase and pre-release download. Its at this point about 90% complete. I am loving jQuery and am new to it. Saw this (http://www.manning.com/bibeault/) on the jQuery blog (http://jquery.com/blog/) last night and went ahead and purchased it. I've made it throught he first couple (pre-publication, mind you) chapters and am impressed. The book is scheduled for release in December but it worth getting into now. It seems the pre-release PDF you get has markup for the printers/style guys but everything I tried in chapters 1 & 2 worked and the examples were well thought out, informative, and actually use examples close to real-world needs (a complaint I have about the jQuery docs - no context to the examples and the examples are too simplistic).

My two cents.