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American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
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The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
BroKen, who blogs at Rick’s place, has somehow made David Axelrod’s e-mail list. He didn’t intend to do that, he’s not sure how he did it, but now that he’s on it he’s damn sure not getting off of it. But that’s alright because he’s getting some great blogger material out of the situation…
The latest word from Mr. Axelrod concerned health care reform. He lists eight ways the reform gives stability and security, eight myths concerning the reform, and eight reasons reform is needed. I agree that reform is needed and he wants me to spread his information around, so here goes.
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[E]very mandate either limits the insurance company’s income or increases their cost. A simpleton might think it’s great that the government will make those “evil” insurance companies get less and give more. But half a minute’s thought and you realize that the insurance companies will certainly find a way to pass increased costs on to their customers (you and me.) If they don’t, they will go bankrupt. Any reform that drives up insurance costs is really anti-reform!
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Perhaps the government will not force you to drop your insurance. But if the government sets rules so that private insurance is more costly, most people (most employers) will seek a cheaper alternative. Therefore, the “public option” planned by the government will certainly drive out private insurance leaving only one source for insurance, the government. So, you won’t keep your insurance after all.
Once again, I graciously volunteered my wisdom, although BroKen already nailed down the highlights of what needed nailing down.
A simpleton might think it’s great that the government will make those “evil” insurance companies get less and give more. But half a minute’s thought and you realize that the insurance companies will certainly find a way to pass increased costs on to their customers (you and me.) If they don’t, they will go bankrupt.
Yup, you go to the head of the class.
But it isn’t the case just with the Obama healthcare plan. It’s true of every single piece of “reform” ever proposed by democrats, with regard to anything. And the rocket-fuel for the reform that is the public’s disaffection with the status quo, always seems to have been caused by the failure of “private industry” to provide a quality product for a reasonable price…for years and generations…which, in turn, was caused by…some other legislation that was proposed and negotiated and rammed through by democrats.
I’m speaking generally here. Health care, the tort system, education, auto manufacturing, steelworking, anything with a labor union. democrats throw around those two words “status quo” — and what they mean by that, is “the situation as I and my democrat buddies have made it.” They mean that, whether they realize it or not.
Every single failure of capitalism in this country that has necessitated reform, was caused by something that really wasn’t capitalism.
Now, this is not obscure stuff. As BroKen said, it requires “half a minute’s thought” and it may require even less than that.
One is not entirely sure exactly where to put one’s hopes: Do the democrats intend to wreck the free market one industry at a time, by creating these “failures of capitalism” through anti-capitalist legislation and then using the resulting failures as evidence that even more “reform” is needed? Or are they so stupid they can’t comprehend the history of what’s been going on, what they have been doing, what the eventual result has to be of their new rules that make relatively simple transactions artificially unworkable and expensive?
Do they just plain not give a damn? If not, what else is it they’re trying to get done, that always seems to provide “free” stuff for the desired constituents over the short term, but over the longer term is constantly pushing modest elements of The American Dream further and further out of reach for those who haven’t made up their minds to depend on government for everything?
Or are we dealing with some kind of “protection racket”? Is this just a way of sending a message to those of us who don’t want to be wards of the state? Kind of a “That’s a nice life ya got there, be a shame if something happened to it.”
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Simple. He was flagged. Though Bob Gibbs dodged the question from Major Garrett last week, but now it is apparent that that is one of the ways the info was being used.
- philmon | 08/19/2009 @ 08:21And hey, Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid insists: Our tax system is voluntary.
- philmon | 08/19/2009 @ 08:24