tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616959642391988608.post5065237280404659789..comments2024-03-28T00:18:25.641-07:00Comments on Calafia Beach Pundit: The fatal flaws in healthcare reform (5)Scott Grannishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028519647946868684noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616959642391988608.post-22938859923839595672010-01-06T11:21:47.786-08:002010-01-06T11:21:47.786-08:00Paul-
No doubt any elected pol from a rural region...Paul-<br />No doubt any elected pol from a rural region of the US supports the entire and extensive panoply of rural subsidies in place. We have created an entire enfeebled and knock-kneed rural culture, dependent on subsidies to survive, and demanding more every year. Power, water, postal services, airline and train connections, highways and phone service are all cross-subsidized, and of course,Benjamin Colehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14001038338873263877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616959642391988608.post-62654263724211192072010-01-06T10:20:33.402-08:002010-01-06T10:20:33.402-08:00Benjamin,
I don't know what you're talkin...Benjamin,<br /><br />I don't know what you're talking about regarding agriculture. I don't know any right-wingers who support ag subsidies, are you talking about politicians? If that's the case, then Democrats are just as guilty. I give you the execrable Tom Harkin as just one example.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06843411100678811292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616959642391988608.post-89156359223520312072010-01-06T08:46:15.897-08:002010-01-06T08:46:15.897-08:00Free marketeers, and I am one, would have more cre...Free marketeers, and I am one, would have more credibility if we led our argument with proposals to free up of agriculture sector.<br />Right now, agriculture is virtually a creature of the federal government, heavily subsidized and regulated and guided and advantaged by the federal government. <br />If memory serves, there are more than 7,000 agricultural extensiobn officers nationwide guiding Benjamin Colehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14001038338873263877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616959642391988608.post-84333451224794413022010-01-06T07:14:29.901-08:002010-01-06T07:14:29.901-08:00Indeed an interesting article by Eric Raymond, one...Indeed an interesting article by Eric Raymond, one of the leaders of the open source movement in software development. <br /><br />I am reading Nicole Gelinas "After The Fall, Saving Capitalism from Wall Street - and Washington" (recommended reading). I am not sure that the solutions to the financial markets problems are all that hard to figure out. It seems some knew what was wrong allThomas Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05216347874446684542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616959642391988608.post-43918369772111023132010-01-06T06:19:55.038-08:002010-01-06T06:19:55.038-08:00Call me a cynic.
No matter how much people protes...Call me a cynic.<br /><br />No matter how much people protest and argue against health care reform, the current political leadership is intent on cramming this down the collective throats of the American people.<br /><br />They make back room deals.<br />They pay off opponents in a style that would make the good fellas blush.<br />They won't hold the debate in the open, on C SPAN.<br /><br />bob wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09546025277161775062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616959642391988608.post-31111428026403056732010-01-05T19:53:27.434-08:002010-01-05T19:53:27.434-08:00Excellent post.
One item over looked is that pri...Excellent post. <br /><br />One item over looked is that private health insurance, or private insurance of any type, is actually a private welfare system.<br /><br />Private welfare systems work much better and at a lower cost than public welfare systems. Or restated, private insurance systems work much better than social insurance. That’s an axiom in the study of insurance and the study of W.E. Heasleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00368333904571061995noreply@blogger.com