Domingo Soto: Because Freedom Isn't Dumb

WHO NEEDS COPS?
I don't disagree with the criticisms of insurance companies. But rather than vilify an entire industry maybe we should recognize that there are things that are endemic to it and that oversight is necessary. Who needs cops? We do. I've encountered cops in Mexico, Cuba, Finland, Russia, China, France, Spain, Portugal, Honduras, and, of course, here and in Puerto Rico. Cops - regardless of what political system they operate in - are by the very nature of their work, authoritarian. The difference in the really horrible encounters I've had in the States and in other countries - especially a very nightmarish scene in Cuba - is that where there is oversight and regulation, and, if necessary, sanctions, bad behavior is less likely to happen. That's the same thing with the insurance industry. They're supposed to be making money! That's not necessarily a bad thing. But where inefficiency or greed can be corrected, then they need to be policed.