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They also consider Dennis Rodman a diplomat...
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http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-in-iran-unique-system-allows-payments-for-kidney-donors-2016-8
Iran’s kidney program stands apart from other organ donation systems around the world by openly allowing payments, typically of several thousand dollars. It has helped effectively eliminate the country’s kidney transplant waiting list since 1999, the government says, in contrast to Western nations like the United States, where tens of thousands hope for an organ and thousands die waiting each year.
Bottom Line: Realistically, we’ll continue to have serious and ongoing shortages of bone marrow and kidneys as long as we outlaw and criminalize the only solution that is guaranteed to successfully eliminate those shortages: donor compensation. As strange as it sounds, capitalist, free-market America should look for guidance on this issue from one of the most anti-market, repressed economies in the world – Iran (it ranked 171 out of 178 countries in the world for Economic Freedom in 2016 by the Heritage Foundation). Surprisingly, Iran is the one country in the world that has effectively used basic free market principles to eliminate its kidney shortage by legalizing compensation for kidney donors. The US could easily eliminate its bone marrow and kidney shortages by following Iran’s success with principles usually associated much more with America that the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Iran’s kidney program stands apart from other organ donation systems around the world by openly allowing payments, typically of several thousand dollars. It has helped effectively eliminate the country’s kidney transplant waiting list since 1999, the government says, in contrast to Western nations like the United States, where tens of thousands hope for an organ and thousands die waiting each year.
Bottom Line: Realistically, we’ll continue to have serious and ongoing shortages of bone marrow and kidneys as long as we outlaw and criminalize the only solution that is guaranteed to successfully eliminate those shortages: donor compensation. As strange as it sounds, capitalist, free-market America should look for guidance on this issue from one of the most anti-market, repressed economies in the world – Iran (it ranked 171 out of 178 countries in the world for Economic Freedom in 2016 by the Heritage Foundation). Surprisingly, Iran is the one country in the world that has effectively used basic free market principles to eliminate its kidney shortage by legalizing compensation for kidney donors. The US could easily eliminate its bone marrow and kidney shortages by following Iran’s success with principles usually associated much more with America that the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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http://www.snopes.com/hillary-clinton-freed-child-rapist-laughed-about-it/
"Hillary Clinton's role in a 40-year-old rape case became the focal point of a viral meme in 2016, but the claims made about it were mostly inaccurate."
"Hillary Clinton's role in a 40-year-old rape case became the focal point of a viral meme in 2016, but the claims made about it were mostly inaccurate."
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… is from page 166 of Stephen Marglin’s 2008 book, The Dismal Science; this book is deeply flawed, in many ways, but Marglin gets this Hayekian point right and he explains it well (the words that Marglin italicizes are a quotation from F.A. Hayek’s 1945 article “The Use of Knowledge in Society“; the first set of bracketed words are supplied by Marglin; the other sets are supplied by me; link added):
For if knowledge is algorithmic in character, there is no reason for knowledge to become available only if the agent is an active participant in implementing his (or her) knowledge. It is when the knowledge in question has an irreducibly experimental component that use can be made [of it] only if the decisions depending on it are left to him or are made with his active cooperation. In today’s jargon, agents have private information, or, rather, hyperprivate information: the knowledge is so private that the knower herself becomes knowledgeable only when translating the knowledge into action.
If people really could formulate all their knowledge in algorithmic terms and calculate as [modern mainstream] economic theory assumes, there would be no need for real-life markets. [Oskar] Lange‘s pretend markets would do just fine. The virtue of the real market is precisely that it calls forth knowledge that people cannot explain, justify, or defend intellectually, knowledge that economic agents themselves may not fully understand. It calls forth this knowledge by the incentives it it provides for action and the ruthlessness with which it weeds out error.
For if knowledge is algorithmic in character, there is no reason for knowledge to become available only if the agent is an active participant in implementing his (or her) knowledge. It is when the knowledge in question has an irreducibly experimental component that use can be made [of it] only if the decisions depending on it are left to him or are made with his active cooperation. In today’s jargon, agents have private information, or, rather, hyperprivate information: the knowledge is so private that the knower herself becomes knowledgeable only when translating the knowledge into action.
If people really could formulate all their knowledge in algorithmic terms and calculate as [modern mainstream] economic theory assumes, there would be no need for real-life markets. [Oskar] Lange‘s pretend markets would do just fine. The virtue of the real market is precisely that it calls forth knowledge that people cannot explain, justify, or defend intellectually, knowledge that economic agents themselves may not fully understand. It calls forth this knowledge by the incentives it it provides for action and the ruthlessness with which it weeds out error.
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The DNC pays lip service to ethics while Comey told the truth about Hilz.
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No, but it was responsible for the inaccurate statements about HRC and that case... The right generally prefers to say what feels right to them, truth be damned.
Andy Dukes
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Why is it Republicans worry more about voter registration fraud and every time I read a news account about actual voter fraud, it involves a Republican.
espoola
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The same reason CNN spent five minutes on Trump's attitude this morning, then went straight to ZIKA.
Andy Dukes
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What was more offensive during Gov. LePage rants this week? That he used the term Cock>)*&^% or that he was not even right about what he was ranting about?
Andy Dukes
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So it is all about the media. Sure it is.
I learned something in business years ago. Those that rant about getting screwed are most likely people who will screw you in a heartbeat.
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You've no doubt heard of the vast right wing conspiracy....the one that has it in for the Clinton's?
Andy Dukes
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Muahahahaaaaaaaaaaaa....Andy honey, this is a conversation. Conversations tend to wander abit.
Unless of course you are pontificating or lecturing on a subject.
So who exactly is conducting & running this vast right wing conspiracy?
Was Monica Lewinski part of the conspiracy?
When Hillary claimed to have been under sniper fire, was that a part of the conspiracy too?
This should be fascinating. Do tell. Please.
Andy Dukes
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Kitty Whiskers,
It is not a conspiracy it is a dance. On one side is the habitual line steppers, the Clintons. On the other is the right that is terrified by them because the Clintons constantly eat their lunch. No conspiracy. Just the same dance for 40 years.
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