🚀 go-pugleaf

On Jun 3, 10:29 am, tom spillman <nos...@austin.rr.com> wrote:

> Perhaps you can enlighten me.  I, personally, have lost *NO* freedoms,
> nor do I know *anyone* who has.  I feel as free now, as I did before the
> current administration. After all, I have lived through the
> administrations of FDR, HST, Eisenhower, Kennedy, LBJ, Nixon, Ford,
> Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush II.  Vague generalities will not
> be accepted, at least by me.  I lived through both WWII and the Korean
> War where I served.  I was deployed to a combat area longer than Senator
> Kerry and also earned a few minor decorations, so if you are talking
> about "rights" for our detainees, you will have to explain why we didn't
> give equivalent rights to the Germans, Japanese, Italians, North Koreans
> and Chinese captured in those wars.
>
> Likewise, what candidates would you suggest?  I have looked carefully at
>   ALL of the candidates in both major parties and I have found *none*
> that I would be willing to vote FOR.  I have found a number in both
> parties I would vote AGAINST.  The Democrats show little understanding
> of even Economics 101, much less larger issues of macroeconomics.  They
> actually seem to assume that price controls and excess profits taxes
> will *help*.  Apparently, they don't remember the Carter
> administration's results during the Arab boycott of the 1970's.
> Remember the gasoline shortages and long lines at the service stations?

Excellent post.  Keep in mind that price controls are hardly exclusive
to Democrats.  Nixon favored price controls on oil, for example.  More
recently, during the 2004 election, Democrats and Republicans were, in
principle, in full agreement that an expansion of Medicare should take
place under a new prescription drug program.  Expanding Medicare to
include a prescription drug program not only represents a vast new
increase in government spending, but, in today's managed care
environment, it is the perfect Trojan Horse for government to impose
price controls on the drug industry

> They also have not learned from the mistakes of the British and
> Canadians on health care and seem to want to bring those same problems
> of rationing of care and long waiting lists here.  If my wife and I were
> under either of their systems, we would both likely be dead now.  We
> both have been successfully treated for cancer starting in 1999 and 2000
> and we're both still here.  With cancer, prompt treatment is essential.

Glad to see you are doing well, and that you received prompt
treatment.  It's important to note that in Britain and Canada, many
individuals choose private health coverage if they can afford it.