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Nov 03
Venezuela now has single-payer medicine–rationed by the military
Socialism is a curse that should be wished only on a hated enemy. All societies that embrace it inevitably become sick and weak. Just a generation ago, Venezuela was a thriving, dynamic society with a robust economy. Now, after 17 years of socialism, men die in the streets fighting over spare change. Women and children …
Nov 03
Overpaid government ‘workers’ are bankrupting major cities
America has moved toward becoming a feudal society like the tyrannical fiefdoms of yesteryear, with private households mired in poverty, debt and hopelessness while those in government live like kings (pun intended). The average federal ‘worker’ is paid about twice what a worker in the private sector would make doing the same type of job. …
Nov 02
New York Times quarterly earnings fall 95 percent
America’s government-supporting newspapers are dying. Now the New York Times–America’s premier pro-government newspaper–is reporting quarterly earnings that are 95.7 percent lower than just a year earlier. See here.
Nov 02
Life is improving for most people on earth; in spite of governments
Life expectancy, world health, literacy and education, average interior living space, and the cleanliness of environments is gradually improving throughout the world. See here. But this progress has been IN SPITE OF, rather than because of the world’s governments, which have constantly sought to repress and control the world’s subjects. See here.
Oct 30
Fifty-seven percent of doctors ran their own practices in 2000; that figure is down to 33% as of 2015.
The immense paperwork burdens, high malpractice premiums, and overregulation of medicine has driven most doctors to large, centralized institutions. See here.
Oct 27
“News” establishment begs critics to stop criticizing
The safest profession in the world is probably journalism in support of the state. Undoubtedly, the most dangerous profession in the world is journalism in opposition to the state. For years, America’s pro-government (“mainstream”) press has promoted an agenda of increasing government power and control. Political movements which threaten the dominance of established government have …
Oct 26
“Affordable Care Act” incentivizes poverty
“If you like your current plan, you will be able to keep it,” said President Obama. “Let me repeat that: If you like your plan, you will be able to keep it,” he said. This week, the Kaiser Family Foundation released an analysis of the Obamacare insurance exchanges that indicates there will be five states …
Oct 24
Growing numbers of poor Americans find retirement elusive; they must work till they die
Sad story from the Associated Press. America has become a two-tiered society, with those in power pampered in luxury while those without government positions live lives of poverty. For years, the U.S. government has punished savers, entrepreneurs and investors. Social Security, for example, takes money from people’s paychecks during periods when they most need money …
Oct 22
40 percent of government temperature adjustments are fake–based on no actual thermometer data
NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has been “adjusting” the ‘official’ temperature record at an increasing rate. Now, “more than 40% of their adjusted monthly temperatures are now fake – i.e. no actual thermometer data behind them.” See here.
Oct 22
Overregulation will soon push thousands of doctors to abandon Medicare patients
If America’s health care industry were free, it would provide ever-higher quality medicine at steadily-decreasing cost. This is the pattern in most high tech industries where government control is limited. But since 1965, the U.S. government has been overregulating health care–driving costs higher and higher. Now, unless Congress approves some type of massive bailout, doctors …
