Interesting. Google, the be all and end all of internet search, does NOT index comments. Very interesting.
Leaves an opening for a competitor.
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TECHNOLOGY: Google doesn’t index comments
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RANT: “Health care” is not a “human right”!
Thursday, September 3, 2009http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2009/08/yes-virginia-insurance-companies-do.html
Friday, August 28, 2009
‘Yes, Virginia, the insurance companies do ration’
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MY RESPONSE
Two “minor” points.
FIRST!!!
“Health care” is not a “human right”!
Place a human alone in a forest. Where is their “human right” to health care?
If you assert that is a “right” then their is an obligation for some one to provide it. If I have a RIGHT to health care, then my neighbor is FORCED to provide it. If he’s a butcher, baker, or a candlestick maker, then my health care will not be so good!
OH, you’re just going to FORCE him to PAY for my healthcare. Just as I am going to be forced to PAY for his.
Don’t you see the moral hazard in that? Don’t you see the stupidity in that? Don’t you see the inefficiency and ineffectiveness of that?
Argh!
Please go back and revisit the whole history of John Locke and concept of negative rights.
SECOND!!!
No one want to see people treated like in a third world country. Sick and dying, covered in flies, in human misery.
BUT, (there is always a big butt), you have no right to compel “charity”. America is an unbelievably charitable country. You can not “force” it. When you make it a gooferment program, then you have “free loaders”. Part of our current problem is that people want something for nothing. In my childhood, there was charity care in hospitals. My relatives would pass the hat around the family rather than have a relative use “charity”. They were embarrassed to have their neighbors think that they didn’t love their family member enough to care for them. Freeloaders weren’t tolerated; down on your luck, you were given a hand up. That’s the essence of true charity.
Remember the great hospitals in America were created by the Churches and Fraternal Organizations. Only when the gooferment took over, did we create the mess we have now.
SUMMARY
(1) Health care is not a right.
(2) There will be true charity without the gooferment intrusion.
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LIBERTY: Let’s try peace and liberty
Wednesday, September 2, 2009http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2009/08/whole-foods-hit-by-protests.html
MY RESPONSE TO: “Whole Foods hit by protests”
>People like Mackey, soulless wealthy sociopaths
Now I’m not going to assert that capitalists are the Mother Teresa’s of the world. BUT, (there is always a big butt), they are not the Devil Incarnate either.
Mackey feeds the hungry. OK, you’re not going to see it that way. And, he’s well compensated for his modest efforts.
I read his WSJ op ed and I thought the fellow has courage. He could have just as easily said nothing. Like the “Silent Majority”, who don’t have the stones to speak up and give us the benefit of their wisdom or whizdumb!
I think you misread his text and his intention. Creating more gooferment isn’t the solution to ANY problem. Fixing the gooferment’s perverse incentives is almost always the best answer.
>just don’t give a damn that there are tens of millions of Americans without health care in this
For the moment, let’s ASSUME that there are 45 million uninsured. They do GET health care via emergency rooms and hospitals, but there is some modest agreement that: (1) it’s not cost effective to do that; (2) it delays small problems into big ones; and (3) it’s not efficient.
Wouldn’t it be better to give everyone a tax credit to buy insurance? (Certainly better than ‘cash for klunkers!) I’m sure the “greedy” insurance companies would happily “suborn” the premium (i.e., like the tax prep firms, your social security number gets you a ‘refund anticipation loan’. So to your social gets you an ‘insurance anticipation loan for health insurance’.)
So why isn’t this idea debated?
Because the special interests don’t get control! Politicians don’t get to tell people what’s good for them.
And, obtw, those rich youngsters who don’t want to buy insurance don’t have anyone else to blame.
And, the supposedly “illegal” aliens wouldn’t be a problem if we didn’t have welfare programs. (That is, if there was no “free” education, welfare, and healthcare, then the only folks who came wanting to work would be coming here. Like the old days. Get on the boat and come, we always have room for more workers. Most of us have ancestors who hit the dock with just a smile! Heck, I’d be issuing green cards with tins at the dock and thanking them for coming. That’s the America personified by the Status of Liberty. Come one and come all. We have enough freedom for everyone. That’s Libertarian.)
And, criminals — “illegal” or not — lock them up!
And, obtw, in a Libertarian America, the drug dealers would have to find other work. We’d eliminate all the drug laws. (What would the Columbian Drug Lords do? Go back to farming or cheating widows?) So, we turn Big Pharma loose making the best cleanest drugs possible. (It’s estimated that currently “illegal” street drugs would cost little more than aspirin. And, do you think that WalMart or Walgreens would sell heroin to children? WalMart won’t sell X rated videos because their customers would punish them.) We could empty the prisons of non-violent drug offenders.
America would be supercharged!!!
>He’s filthy rich, he’s covered, his loved ones are covered and beyond that he does not care.
And, how about all those ‘caring’ politicians who say ‘good for thee, but not for me’.
>FDR called them economic royalists.
FDR was the biggest souless empoverisher, next to old “Honest Abe”, in American history. His economic ignorance created Social Security to empower the Democratic Party and set us on the Road to Hell. By eliminating gold currency, he permitted the welfare warfare state to explode.
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I really hope that some day we can try peace!
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MONEY: FDIC “insurance”?
Wednesday, September 2, 2009http://www.lewrockwell.com/sardi/sardi117.html
FDIC Walks a Tightrope
by Bill Sardi
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Bair’s second assignment is to slowly put small insolvent American banks out of business, over a thousand of them, while fostering public confidence in the FDIC insurance company’s ability to insure the public’s money. The FDIC admits to only 416 on the agency’s “problem bank” list. Frankly, without bailout money, few banks would have adequate reserves. By collapsing small banks, depositors are likely to bank their money at larger institutions. So Bair is really a shill for the large bankers to rub out their smaller competition, though she may have no other option in this instance.
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So, why if “too big to fail” is bad, does the gooferment limit the size of a single bank to say ONE ONE THOUSANDTH of it’s reserve. And, oh by the way, why doesn’t it have a REAL RESERVE? Not so IOU from the FED or the Treasury.
Argh!
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QUOTE: Babe Ruth
Tuesday, September 1, 2009Sometimes when I reflect on all the beer I drink, I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn’t drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. I think, “It is better to drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.”
Babe Ruth
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LIBERTY: When the President speaks … …
Tuesday, September 1, 2009FROM DRUDGE
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Obama to make unprecedented address to all public school students; September 8…
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What the …
This is unprecedented all right!
When will folks learn the true purpose of “public education”?
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FUN: You have to admire initiative!
Tuesday, September 1, 2009http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/dailyreckoning/~3/BS0uO_tqS5Q/
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From the Bristol Evening Post:
“Outside Bristol Zoo is the car park, with spaces for 150 cars and 8 coaches. It has been manned 6 days a week for 23 years by the same charming and very polite car park attendant with the ticket machine. The charges are £1. per car and £5. per coach.
“On Monday 1 June, he did not turn up for work. Bristol Zoo management phoned Bristol City Council to ask them to send a replacement parking attendant.
“The Council said, ‘That car park is your responsibility.’ The Zoo said, ‘The attendant was employed by the City Council…wasn’t he?’ The Council said, ‘What attendant?’
“Gone missing from his home is a man who has been taking daily the car park fees amounting to about £400. per day for the last 23 years…!
“Total sum just short £2.9 million.”
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You just have to smile!
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POLITICAL: It’s the gooferment!
Monday, August 31, 2009http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski236.html
Health Care Through Central Planning: A Helpful Analogy
by Karen Kwiatkowski
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We have examples – ophthalmology and veterinarian services come to mind first. You can get an eye exam for $50, and then order glasses online for another $20. Overall, that’s less than a pair of running shoes, or a meal out with the family at Applebee’s. The wide variety of eye surgeries available and the competitive and safe nature of these surgeries speak to the working of a freer market than what we see for the rest of our health care. The argument by the statist left and statist right is falsely premised by the idea that the current health care “system” is a free market system, and based on the ideas that free market systems can’t work for health care because people are not all equal in either health, desires for health or finances.
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We have to keep hitting the gooferment on all fronts. It’s ineffective, inefficient, and screws up everything it touches!
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JOBSEARCH: non-off-shorable
Monday, August 31, 2009Updating my meme for the future generations:
Success for your generation is:
(1) ruthless financial discipline — no bad debt;
(2) a life long interest in learning — education — a degree — they can’t take it away from you;
(3) a white collar job, non-off-shorable, in order to save big bux;
(4) a blue collar skill for hard times — never saw a poor plumber;
(5) one or more internet based businesses — your store is always open;
(6) a free time hobby that generates income; and
(7) a large will-maintained network of people who can “help” you.
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It’s become apparent that any job that can be moved off-shore will be. The cheaper wage rates are making it more and more attractive for work to move globally.
Stories about IBM and their “playbook” style consulting can be done from anywhere.
TATA has an order of magnitude in any bidding war. My friend, a TATA-competing consultant, was told by the TATA sales guy that “they just offered contacting manager to drop the last zero off any bid they received”. Over drinks, the contracting manager confided to my friend that is exactly what he did. The contracting manager took my friend’s proposal for 1.2M$ and TATA took the bid at 120K$. The consulting company my friend worked for went out of business shortly after that.
So, when you look for that white collar job, make sure it’s one that will stay here. (Whereever here is for you!)
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RANT: GM Government Motors to make cars in China?
Monday, August 31, 2009http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE57T0IV20090830
GM to form China venture, invest $293 million
Sun Aug 30, 2009 7:33am EDT
By Fang Yan and Edmund Klamann
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – General Motors said on Sunday it has agreed to set up a light commercial vehicle production venture with major Chinese automaker FAW Group, with total investment of 2 billion yuan ($293 million).
The 50-50 joint venture, based in the northeast China city of Changchun in Jilin province, will make light-duty trucks and vans, GM said in a statement.
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Bet they will have the UAW representing the workers? Not!
Hey, it’s only 293M$ of our tax money.
Glad the gooferment is branching out. From it’s Constitutionally mandated functions.
Now you see the meaning of Fascism. Oh, I mean gooferment – business cooperation.
How’s that “change” working out for you?
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