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A Breakdown Down of the Opportunity Costs of "Soft Socialism"

Though they surely won’t be equaled by the bitter fruits of “pure socialism,” they are still significant and sweeping.

Sunday, November 18, 2018

https://fee.org/articles/a-breakdown-down-of-the-opportunity-costs-of-soft-socialism/

Elizabeth Warren has a hair-brain scheme to make corporations more accountable by allowing government officials to appoint some fraction of their members, without explaining how any director can simultaneously owe fiduciary duties—the highest legal obligation to act in the best interest of a party, and the rule that keeps our corporate law going— to parties with adverse interests. Bernie Sanders constantly pushes Medicare for all and free college tuition for all without ever understanding that with a price of zero dollars, supply and demand will be perpetually out of whack. Consumer demand explodes with the promise of free goodies, while the supply of goods and services shrinks given the want of revenue to cover wages and capital expenditures. When public price or wage controls ensure that supply will necessarily outstrip demands, only two responses, in tandem, occur. Queues form and quality declines.
 
The New York Times Reveals the Horrors of Capitalism—By Showing China’s State-Run Hospitals

If the Times had visited one of China’s many private hospitals, they would have found something quite different from the chaos depicted in China’s public health care facilities.

Monday, November 19, 2018
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Rewriting Socialist History

In the video, the Times praises Chairman Mao’s introduction of “free” health care and claims that when capitalism was introduced into the country, the state retreated and care was no longer free.

Neither statement is true. First, health care was never free; it was paid for by tax revenues. Second, the state never retreated; rather, its regulatory apparatus became vaster and even more invasive. Out of sheer necessity, China allowed for the creation of private hospitals to ease the burden of the country's heavily bureaucratic and deteriorating health care system.

The fact that the Times refused to visit even one private hospital or mention the higher cancer survival rates of patients receiving private care raises serious questions. At the very least, failing to feature a single private medical facility while blaming capitalism for the dysfunction of China’s public health system is intellectually dishonest.

https://fee.org/articles/the-new-yo...alism-by-showing-china-s-state-run-hospitals/
 
Bruddah IZ said:
California's Typhus Surge Is Linked to Fleas, Feces, and Bad Economic Policies

There might not be a government-backed solution to Los Angeles’ typhus outbreak, but if the city’s and state’s politicians really want to end homelessness, then repealing zoning and minimum wage laws would be a great start.

Friday, November 16, 2018

https://fee.org/articles/california...ked-to-fleas-feces-and-bad-economic-policies/

The crisis, which has already made 64 victims this year alone, has deeper roots. At least, that's what 5th District Supervisor Kathryn Barger appears to claim.

"When I drive through parts of my district and I see the living conditions on the street, it reminds me of a third-world country," Barger said.

Perhaps the fact that California falls behind every single state in the country when it comes to fiscal, regulatory, tax, and economic policies—much like many "third-world" countries—has something to do with the current conditions residents are now forced to grapple with.
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All Democrats .....All districts....All feces....
Just ask " Little Adam Schitt for Brains " or " Mad Maxine ".....
 
Cuba’s Exit From Brazil’s “More Doctors” Program Reveals the Exploitative Nature of Socialism
Socialists always prove to be greedier and more eager to exploit human labor than any capitalist could ever be.
Monday, November 19, 2018

Myth versus Reality
A few remaining dictatorships such as Cuba’s still sponsor state doctors to go on mission trips to sell socialized medicine across the globe. Besides using these missions to make money for their unsustainable state-run economies, they take every opportunity to criticize capitalism and lure young people into the socialist orbit. This strategy relies upon the myth that only socialism can get individuals to manifest their virtues and “help” others, but Brazilians are now realizing that these are just empty words.

After five years of participating, the Cuban government has just withdrawn from “Mais Médicos” (“More Doctors”), a Brazilian public health programdesigned by former socialist President Dilma Rousseff back in 2013. At the time, she promised that by partnering up with foreign countries, the program would increase the number of medical professionals in underserved areas of Brazil.

Unlike physicians from other nations, Cuban medics did not directly receive their salaries from the program. Instead, the government skimmed 74 percent of those salaries right off the top.

The socialist regime in Havana saw a money-making propaganda opportunity and dispatched nearly 20,000 Cuban medical professionals to Brazil—by far the largest contingent that various countries sent. More than 8,300 are in the country at the moment. But, unlike physicians from other nations, Cuban medics did not directly receive their salaries from the program. Instead, the government skimmed 74 percent of those salaries right off the top. Moreover, Cuban medics were not allowed to bring along their family members with them to Brazil. Why? The families were essentially kept as hostages to ensure their doctor relatives wouldn’t go to Brazil and defect from Cuba’s socialist “workers’ paradise.”

https://fee.org/articles/cuba-s-exi...reveals-the-exploitative-nature-of-socialism/
 
The Idea That the US Has a "Free Market" Health Care System Is Pure Fantasy
According to the World Health Organization, US per capita government spending on health care is the fourth highest in the world.
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
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After all, contrary to the widely held misconception that all health care (including prescription drugs) in Canada is "free," nearly 30 percent of all health care spending takes place in the private sector—mostly to cover prescription drugs, dental care, and other types of care not covered by the state.

Moreover, health care in the US offered by ostensibly private sector firms in the US is done overwhelmingly through heavily regulated and highly bureaucratic insurance schemes.

This sort of insurance is so widespread that fewer Americans purchase health services out-of-pocket than in most other OECD countries. While Swiss, Italian, and Australian out-of-pocket expenses constitute at least one-fifth of health spending, the total is only 12 percent in the US. The US is well below the OECD average of 19.5 percent. The idea that millions of Americans are handing over huge sums of cash out-of-pocket to afford basic medical procedures is fiction.

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Source. "OECD Health Statistics 2015 - Country Notes"


 
The Lives We Can Save in California
Safe injection facilities and other harm reduction measures are the answer.

If San Francisco attempts to move forward with establishing supervised injection facilities (SIFs), places where those addicted to drugs can safely shoot up, it will have to do so without the state government's blessing. In early October, Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed A.B. 186, a bill that would have authorized the city and county to create such facilities.

https://reason.com/archives/2018/11/23/the-lives-we-can-save-in-calif
 
Bruddah IZ said:
The Lives We Can Save in California
Safe injection facilities and other harm reduction measures are the answer.

If San Francisco attempts to move forward with establishing supervised injection facilities (SIFs), places where those addicted to drugs can safely shoot up, it will have to do so without the state government's blessing. In early October, Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed A.B. 186, a bill that would have authorized the city and county to create such facilities.

https://reason.com/archives/2018/11/23/the-lives-we-can-save-in-calif
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I guess that's a solution.
 
Which One Of Hawaii’s Idiots In Congress Just Claimed That Using Tear Gas Was A War Crime?

Posted at 9:02 pm on November 25, 2018 by streiff


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Earlier today, US riot police in San Ysidro, CA, responded to the mainly male and largely criminal caravan of illegals now camped in Tijuana…and I have to tell you, when the mayor of Tijuana is complaining about something destroying the ambiance of that metropolis, things are really interesting…attempted to storm the border wall and then threw rocks at US police, they were answered by the use of riot control agents being referred to as “tear gas.” Naturally, Trump being the president, it didn’t take long until some Democrat decided to accuse the Border Patrol and Customs and Border Protection officers at San Ysidro with some sort of crime. Somehow Hawaii beat out California, New York, Oregon, Massachusetts, and other Democrat strongholds for the honor of being first.



Yeah, the headline didn’t narrow the waterfront very much, did it. Reasonably it could have been any of them. Thought the irony of Tulsi Gabbard, who claimed that Syria was framed for using chemical weapons, might have been too much to bear. The actual winner is the aptly named Brian Schatz:

 
Sheriff Joe said:
Which One Of Hawaii’s Idiots In Congress Just Claimed That Using Tear Gas Was A War Crime?

Posted at 9:02 pm on November 25, 2018 by streiff


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Earlier today, US riot police in San Ysidro, CA, responded to the mainly male and largely criminal caravan of illegals now camped in Tijuana…and I have to tell you, when the mayor of Tijuana is complaining about something destroying the ambiance of that metropolis, things are really interesting…attempted to storm the border wall and then threw rocks at US police, they were answered by the use of riot control agents being referred to as “tear gas.” Naturally, Trump being the president, it didn’t take long until some Democrat decided to accuse the Border Patrol and Customs and Border Protection officers at San Ysidro with some sort of crime. Somehow Hawaii beat out California, New York, Oregon, Massachusetts, and other Democrat strongholds for the honor of being first.



Yeah, the headline didn’t narrow the waterfront very much, did it. Reasonably it could have been any of them. Thought the irony of Tulsi Gabbard, who claimed that Syria was framed for using chemical weapons, might have been too much to bear. The actual winner is the aptly named Brian Schatz:
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Born in Michigan, Pomona College graduate. What do you expect?
 
Socialism’s Record Has Been Pain, Not Gain (Especially for the Poor)
Capitalism, not socialism, has lifted over a billion people out of poverty worldwide since 1990.
Monday, November 26, 2018

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The overarching message of “The Opportunity Cost of Socialism”—a study recently released by the president’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA)—is that the advocacy of socialism cannot reasonably be based on policy preferences; its attraction has always been grounded in a combination of wishful thinking and ignorance. For example, the new CEA study shows that the socialist approach to “single payer” health care advocated by many on the left would cost much more and deliver much less, resulting in the significant worsening of mortality and morbidity, not just higher taxes and reduced economic growth.
 
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