http://www.bloggernews.net/17280 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:43:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.bloggernews.net/17280#comment-67664 Nathan Greenhalgh Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:04:47 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/17280#comment-67664 I don't know where you get the idea that by having universal healthcare it will lead to some sort of communist society. Atlas Shrugged is a fiction, by the way. The Europeans, Japanese and Canadians all have universal healthcare that is of equal or better quality (statistics back that up - life-spans and infant mortality rate), and they are all normal capitalist democracry. The free market is a wonderful tool we can use to create wonderful things, but it does not work for everything. "Fairness doesn't just happen; it requires the right government policies" There's nothing to fear from this quote, guys. It's hardly "all power to the soviets." The free market cannot exist without the government policies that allow it to exist. It's government policies that brought us from feudalism to capitalism and tempers the capitalism from running amok, as you can see in Russia with its capitalist oligarchy that functions more like a mafia then a competitive marketplace (one of the main reasons everyone hypes India and China but not Russia). Fairness does not mean punishing the successful, it means trying to ensure that everyone has the chance to succeed. In terms of entrepeneurship, Italy, with it's social-democrat government and socialized medicine, has many more successful small business owners than the U.S. Small businesses make up 23% of the value of their economy, as opposed to 3% here. So who's doing more to promote success? The left or the right? Many small businesses in the US are no longer able to provide health insurance for their employees, and medical costs have become the number one cause of bankruptcy in the US. People who are sick and dying from untreated illness and bankrupt are not successful. The conservative position on healthcare is punishing them, the people who should be succeeding, the small business owner. But they're more concerned about the continuing the success of insurance companies at the expense of a much larger portion of society and the American economy. That's unfair, isn't it? I don’t know where you get the idea that by having universal healthcare it will lead to some sort of communist society. Atlas Shrugged is a fiction, by the way. The Europeans, Japanese and Canadians all have universal healthcare that is of equal or better quality (statistics back that up - life-spans and infant mortality rate), and they are all normal capitalist democracry. The free market is a wonderful tool we can use to create wonderful things, but it does not work for everything.
“Fairness doesn’t just happen; it requires the right government policies”
There’s nothing to fear from this quote, guys. It’s hardly “all power to the soviets.”
The free market cannot exist without the government policies that allow it to exist. It’s government policies that brought us from feudalism to capitalism and tempers the capitalism from running amok, as you can see in Russia with its capitalist oligarchy that functions more like a mafia then a competitive marketplace (one of the main reasons everyone hypes India and China but not Russia).
Fairness does not mean punishing the successful, it means trying to ensure that everyone has the chance to succeed.
In terms of entrepeneurship, Italy, with it’s social-democrat government and socialized medicine, has many more successful small business owners than the U.S. Small businesses make up 23% of the value of their economy, as opposed to 3% here. So who’s doing more to promote success? The left or the right?
Many small businesses in the US are no longer able to provide health insurance for their employees, and medical costs have become the number one cause of bankruptcy in the US. People who are sick and dying from untreated illness and bankrupt are not successful. The conservative position on healthcare is punishing them, the people who should be succeeding, the small business owner. But they’re more concerned about the continuing the success of insurance companies at the expense of a much larger portion of society and the American economy. That’s unfair, isn’t it?

]]> http://www.bloggernews.net/17280#comment-35125 Norma Powell Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:49:41 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/17280#comment-35125 As a true liberal, (in the international sense), I am more and more frustrated at the fact that the American liberal left has subverted this truly fantastic philosophy because it does not have the courage (a known trait of the left) to assume what it really is: Socialist. As a true liberal, (in the international sense), I am more and more frustrated at the fact that the American liberal left has subverted this truly fantastic philosophy because it does not have the courage (a known trait of the left) to assume what it really is: Socialist.

]]> http://www.bloggernews.net/17280#comment-33267 buck Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:11:01 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/17280#comment-33267 dude, you need to get off the pills...and come live in the city for awhile, the world is not what it appears from your t.v. and slant internet news. dude, you need to get off the pills…and come live in the city for awhile, the world is not what it appears from your t.v. and slant internet news.

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