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The Wall Street Journal edit page is openminded enough to give space to full-throated cries for the policies of opposing ideologies, as we see in this mornings's "Jump Into the Risk Pool" by Ron Gettelfinger, president of the United Auto Workers. But there's no mystery why the Journal can be fearless about letting opponents speak, while the New York Times edit page rigidly restricts access to those parroting its own views -- the Leftist point of view is not very persuasive. Gettelfinger tries to make the case for socialized health care with dumb arguments like this:

Starbucks...operates in a competitive environment that is worlds away from manufacturing. But Starbucks now spends more money on health care than it does on coffee -- not unlike GM, which has for some time paid more money for health care than it does for steel. Starbucks, like GM, is finding out the hard way that America's benefits crisis cannot be solved by any one company or industry.

But Starbucks spends more on labor than it does on coffee -- so has Starbucks "found out the hard way" that private employment of its own workforce is no solution to "the labor crisis"? Should government hire all the baristas?

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