Posted on 10/24/2004 6:54:31 AM PDT by finnigan2
I'm not sure tht's true of big cities nowadays.
This is exactly the argument I've been trying to make to my idiot liberal friends. Ever hear of asymmetric warfare? Look up 'asymmetric' in the dictionary and tell me if you can plot a course on something asymmetric!
Yep.
How come these people can manage to get paid? It is called a market economy.
Capitalism. It Just Works! TM
Hahahahaha!!!
I think this is the best Steyn piece of all I've read.
And I too have believed binLaden to be dead for a few years at least. It's the Left who still needs him to be alive to function as a prop for one of their current campaign "arguments". There is simply no reason for him to be alive when he suddenly and mysteriously "stops" creating videos and making Jihad statements. He's dead. But, no irony here, it's the Left who still contends he's alive and so they've had to create him over as a Legendary Outlaw Underground Folk Hero, because, apparently he's THEIR kind of hero. That's just the way the equation works out.
Think so? Think all these people who put together public programs were just dummies huh?
Well then all you have to do is vote out all forms of public assistance; - deny emergency room care to those who can't pay, cut off Medicare and all state assistance, cease funding public education and medical education, no free vaccines against communicable diseases, etc., etc., and....
Paradise, here I come!!!
P.S. don't forget to cut off all the pork from which you benefit.
OUCH! More and more democRATic talking points are revealed as nothing else but cheap demagoguery and shameless attempts to confuse the uninformed.
ping for later
Why is our populace so blind?
We Americans are thankful that Poland is one of our strongest allies in the war on terror.
Yup. I teach in a Christian high school and what you say has penetrated even to our hallowed halls to some extent.
We sure could use more of it...and less burdensome and meaningless government regulation, and less frivolous, more reasonable limits to law suits.
Coming to the conclusion that our health care system is burdened by overpopulation is just wrong
Did I lead you to believe that was my conclusion? Sorry I didn't mean to. My conclusion is that our health care system is overburdened by increasingly large numbers of people who can't pay for mandated services.
I'd like to see a real analysis of the drug industry.
Are the drug companies doing the research...or is the NIH? Are the drug companies tremendously profitable or do they plow most of their profits into research? What role, if any, do insurance companies play in this and how profitable are they? What role does the government play? Are there monopoly issues, serious regulatory exclusions, etc.?
As usual politics plays a big role. Drug companies lobby heavily to get laws they want. What laws are those and why do they want them?
And I'm all for government funded research, because it's one of the few things the government does that actually pays off, but I doubt the drug companies would like it very much if a new discovery clobbered the market for one their drugs.
The drug companies. Sigh... I know too little about them to comment.
Most of the drug companies are public. If someone thinks they are getting away with highway robbery, they can buy stock in them. The problem is the system is broken, and the companies work within that system to make their living.
If you don't have any money, that is your problem and can only be remedied by you. To believe in anything else is to believe that all of us must be enslaved to the worst of us.
People are fundamentally and inherently different. Not everyone can be wealthy or successful...or rational and clever. When times are really hard, like during the depression, great numbers of people are really poor.
Last time I checked, the Great Depression was a historical oddity. Besides, I knew a lot of people who lived through it, and they didn't find it nearly as bad as its hype. Back then, people didn't have Tom, Peter, and Dan to tell them how miserable they were.
But slightly higher unemployment rates do not mean that everyone is suddenly poor. And among those that do lose their jobs, prioritizing and rational decisions make a huge difference in how long they are out of work and how miserable they are when they are out of work.
The really telling thing is the fact that the people you champion are miserable no matter how good the economy is. The problem is with them, not the rest of us.
Recognition of our limited powers and our responsibility to others has been with us for a long time. It is at the heart of most major religions.
To believe in anything else is to believe that all of us must be enslaved to the worst of us
That's a really pejorative way of characterizing a basic truth. The poor, the weak, the stupid, the ugly, the criminal, the failed are always with us...unless we decide to kill them en masse.
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