Friday, February 5, 2010
Where in the Constitution is There a Guarantee for Health Care?
Consider the state of medicine in the late 1700s. The Founding Fathers may have been smart guys, but why would they have anything meaningful to say about health care? It had only been 25 years since barbers were legitimately doing amputations. Physicians still balanced humors. Medical licensing did not happen until 25 to 50 years later. The Constitution is a living document because they KNEW it wasn't perfect.
Fair and Balanced?
Wonder if they would cover a Democrat holding up nominations because they wanted pork for their home state?
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/white-house-blasts-shelby-hold-on-nominees/
Stories on Shelby's move are conspicuously absent on Fox's site:
http://www.foxnews.com/search-results/search?q=shelby
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/white-house-blasts-shelby-hold-on-nominees/
Stories on Shelby's move are conspicuously absent on Fox's site:
http://www.foxnews.com/search-results/search?q=shelby
Really?
A lot of conservative economists seem to think that the unemployment rate is stubbornly high because of uncertainty created from the cap and trade and healthcare bills being debated in congress. So as I drive from strip mall to strip mall in my hometown, noticing there are at least 2, sometimes more, businesses shuttered I have to marvel at how disconnected from reality they are.
We are in the midst of a debt crisis - is it so unbelievable that over-leveraging of commercial businesses is still responsible for continued unemployment? No, it's not because of "uncertainty" created by government. It's because there's no dang customers! Businesses were so leveraged, based on everyone thinking housing prices would keep going up, that they were running razor thin profit margins in the best of times. Take away 20% of those customers in a matter of months and they cannot pay off their loans anymore. That, combined with banks now unwilling to refinance these businesses means none can keep their doors open, much less worry about hiring because of the uncertainty created by congressional bills.
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Update:
The real problem?
no customers.
We are in the midst of a debt crisis - is it so unbelievable that over-leveraging of commercial businesses is still responsible for continued unemployment? No, it's not because of "uncertainty" created by government. It's because there's no dang customers! Businesses were so leveraged, based on everyone thinking housing prices would keep going up, that they were running razor thin profit margins in the best of times. Take away 20% of those customers in a matter of months and they cannot pay off their loans anymore. That, combined with banks now unwilling to refinance these businesses means none can keep their doors open, much less worry about hiring because of the uncertainty created by congressional bills.
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Update:
The real problem?
no customers.
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