POLITICAL: Organ shortages kill people

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=117021

Another deadly government dictum
Walter E. Williams

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The Institute for Justice is not challenging Congress’ ban on compensation for solid organs such as hearts, kidneys, and livers. Instead, the lawsuit challenges only the provision of the National Organ Transplant Act that bans compensation for bone marrow. The premise of the Institute for Justice’s legal challenge is that there is a fundamental biological distinction between renewable marrow cells and nonrenewable solid organs. In the case of bone marrow, the donor’s bone marrow is completely replenished in a few weeks. That’s less time than it takes for the human body to fully replenish a pint of donated blood that is often sold to blood banks.

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Why are only the doctors and hospitals allowed to earn money from transplants?

We know that free markets are the ultimate in democratic freedom. No coercion. No fraud or force permitted.

Think of a poor family that has bury a loved one. Why shouldn’t they be allowed to have an “inheritance”? Why bury or incinerate the “family fortune”?

We have abysmal rates of organ donations. We have waiting lists of people dying. All because of our cultural reluctance to permit the buying and selling of organs. Free markets always “clear”. No free markets have “waiting lists”!

So lets nuke UNOS and put our friends at WalMart in charge of solving the problem.

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QUOTE: Thanksgiving lesson

Thursday, November 26, 2009

“The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” – Margaret Thatcher

Thanksgiving?

The Pilgrims starved until the dismissed their “commonwealth” of socialism and allowed private enterprise.

If there’s anything to be thankful for, it’s that lesson.

Happy T-day, all.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: 5B$ down the rathole

Sunday, November 8, 2009

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Freddie-Mac-posts-5-billion-rb-3083454207.html?x=0&.v=3

Freddie Mac posts $5 billion loss
* On 7:00 pm EST, Friday November 6, 2009
By Al Yoon

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE – News; NYSE:FRE – News), the second largest provider of U.S. residential mortgage funding, on Friday posted a loss of $5 billion in the third quarter and predicted it would need more government support amid a “prolonged deterioration” in housing.

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Well, isn’t that just great!

If it was a real business, we could just let it go to bankruptcy court.

Another “gooferment sponsored entity” that’s a rat hole for the taxpayer to pump more money into.

I’m sure the congress critters will certainly give them more money we don’t have.

Argh!

And, what’s the impact on the country, the taxpayers, and the people.

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RANT: Just like our depression!

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=114878

What really caused the Great Depression
Posted: November 04, 2009
Walter E. Williams

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Professor Hanke says that the lesson to be drawn from business cycle history is that, if left to run their natural course, severe downturns are followed by rapid snapbacks. The 1921 recession is a good example where wholesale prices, industrial production and manufacturing employment fell by 30 percent or more and reached their low in mid-1921. There was little government intervention, at least by today’s standards, and the economy recovered naturally; and by early 1922, it had fully recovered and the nation was off to the Roaring Twenties.

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So what are the bozos in DC doing?

Yeah, raising taxes, spending us into debt, and making “rules”.

Argh!

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POLITICAL: ‘Too Big to Fail’ Doctrine

Sunday, November 1, 2009

http://www.breitbart.tv/fdic-head-time-to-put-an-end-to-too-big-to-fail-doctrine/

FDIC Head: Time to Put an End to ‘Too Big to Fail’ Doctrine

(About two minutes of SFW video)

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Can she say “credit union”? FDIC is broke and she’s championing “more”. “To big to fail” is absurd. The corporation is a CREATION of the gooferment. Just mandate a SIZE limit. How about a billion? Once it exceeds a billion it must divide in 30 days. Spinning stock to it’s holders. However the BoD wants to do it. But split. Seems easy to me. Let the IRS, SEC, and FED enforce it. No extra agencies or power required.

And, may it embarrassing to earn more than the President in salary!?! Thus we don’t need a pay czar either.

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RANT: The Obama don’t get the flu shot?

Sunday, November 1, 2009

“President Obama just declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency. First the swine flu’s a big threat, then it’s not, then it is. Make up your mind. This thing’s like the Brett Favre of infectious diseases.”

— Jimmy Fallon

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Note that not only do the Obama children NOT go to public skrool. They don’t get the flu shot either.

Do as I say; not as I do?

And, by the way, did anyone notice that the gooferment, which wants to run “health care”, didn’t get the vaccines done in time for the season. If you did that at one of the evil drug companies, what would be your title? Yeah, unemployed!

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RANT: Dial 911 and die!

Friday, October 30, 2009

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/10/arrest_is_made_in_killing_of_p.html

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The pastor, Edward Hinds, had called police from his cell phone around 5 p.m. Thursday, authorities told CNN, but the phone went dead. A 911 operator called back, and the janitor, Jose Feliciano, allegedly picked up the phone, saying there was no need to send an officer, then hung up. Police could not trace the call, and no officer was sent.

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Yes, I guess it was too much trouble for the doughnut eaters to go “protect and serve”. Wonder if the mayor, police commissioner, or one of the other komisars would get that response? Nah, I’m sure they have armed security details. Paid for by the taxpayers, of course.

Argh!

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SOCIALISM: More GMAC aid?

Thursday, October 29, 2009

http://www.freep.com/article/20091028/BUSINESS01/91028022/1322/GMAC-may-get-3rd-helping-of-aid

Posted: 8:40 a.m. Oct. 28, 2009 | Updated: 9:51 a.m. today
GMAC may get 3rd helping of aid
BY GREG GARDNER
FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER

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GMAC, the financial lifeline for General Motors Co., Chrysler Group LLC and their dealer networks, is asking the U.S. Treasury for more federal aid beyond the $12.5 billion it’s already received, because it remains billions of dollars short of a capital reserve requirement all bank holding companies must meet.

The request, which is subject to ongoing negotiations, comes as GMAC is caught in a financial game of chicken with Chrysler Financial that could drive some large Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge dealers out of business or force them to sell their operations.

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More taxpayer participation required!

Argh!

More good money after bad.

Bankruptcy would have been so much cleaner.

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NEWJERSEY: Gooferment theft by stupidity

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20091025/NEWS/910250315&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL

Municipal workers’ unused sick, vacation time costing NJ taxpayers nearly $1 billion
By ANDREA CLURFELD • GANNETT NEW JERSEY • October 25, 2009

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CENTRAL JERSEY — Call it the billion-dollar retirement bill.

New Jersey’s taxpayers owe almost $1 billion to municipal workers for not taking sick, vacation and comp time during their careers, budget figures show.

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Time to welcome ALL gooferment workers into the “real world”.

Use it or lose it.

And the ever popular 401k.

No unfunded liabilities. No golden days.

Same as the rest of us shlubs.

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POLITICAL: Fixing healthcare? Not gonna happen with the gooferment involved

Friday, October 23, 2009

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/scott-m1.1.1.html

Your Doctor Serves The State, Not You
by Michael Scott, MD

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While I agree that physicians commonly order tests and perform procedures that are medically unnecessary, this fact is due to two main reasons the author completely fails to mention: first, the tort system, which terrorizes doctors in their practices on a daily basis, and second, that patients have minimal if any financial stake in their care. As a consequence, they demand everything in excess, and are often angry when we suggest a desired test or treatment is not indicated, no matter how much time we spend trying to educate them. When people don’t pay for something with their own money, they hardly care about costs. They just milk others for all they’re worth, because after all, that’s what they perceive everybody else is doing to them, too.

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Clearly, the current insurance system is broken. And, isn’t going to get fixed anytime soon.

We clearly have to get the lawyers out of suing the doctors for everything that goes wrong. They are docs ; not gods.

We clearly have to return to the days of yesteryear, when insurance was insurance. Car insurance doesn’t insure oil changes. And, patients have to pay a percentage of the true cost; not a “co-pay”!

We have to make health care insurance like auto or life; disconnected from employment.

Finally, we have to get the gooferment OUT of health, health care, and health care insurance completely. They can’t do anything right. It’s in their nature. (I still haven’t heard of then doing ANYTHING effectively. Never mind efficiently!)

Argh!

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