Your Doctor Serves The State, Not You
by Michael Scott, MD
As a physician thoroughly frustrated with our State medical apparatus, I read a large number of opinion pieces and news articles on its perceived woes and proposals for its reform. Though I have read some excellent works on these pages and at the Mises Institute site, the majority found in the popular media reek of economic ignorance and worship of the State. Most private physicians knowingly groan when they encounter such garbage, and simply go about the business of their day caring for the sick in the often impossible system which they find themselves. In sharp contrast, many in academic medicine and professional societies such as the AMA cheer, spread it amongst their colleagues, and write additional State-supporting propaganda, the latest of which to come to my attention was the proverbial straw for this camel, and from which I include a particularly remarkable quote:
"It would be such a shame if we once again fail to cover the uninsured because of hang-ups over costs. Physician decisions drive the majority of expenditures in the US health care system. American health care costs will never be controlled until most physicians are no longer paid fees for specific services."
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By Laurence M. Vance
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says health care is a right; President Obama says health care is a right; the 2008 Democratic National Platform says health care is a right. Republicans say that health care is not a right. Right?
Former Republican Senate majority leaders Bill "bought and paid for by the AMA" Frist and Bob "bought and paid for by Big Pharma" Dole support health care reform, but the Republicans in Congress, who have to answer to the voters, are balking.
As much as I deplore with every fiber of my being every facet of the federal government’s intrusion into medicine, health care, and medical insurance I am still not very excited about the Republicans in Congress opposing the Democrats’ health care reform proposals.
Yes, the Republicans in Congress have correctly said that Obamacare is too expensive, too intrusive, and too socialistic. But when the late Sam Francis called the Republican Party the stupid party he was only telling half the story. The Republicans are hypocrites who frequently support legislation that is expensive, intrusive, and socialistic—especially when it is their own.
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The Anatomy of Blue-State Fascism
By Anthony Gregory
"To compare the president to Hitler is not free speech. It is inciting violence." This is a very common talking point these days on the left. Google the terms and you will see the theme repeatedly.
It is considered a hate crime to compare Obama to the Nazi leader, or even to describe more generally his agenda as fascist. Although I recall every president I’ve lived under being characterized in this manner, suddenly it is a danger to American democracy for the comparison to be uttered. When Bush was compared to Hitler, of course the establishment right was hysterical, too, but the left seems even more willing than the neocons to propose outright prohibiting such political speech.
Toward the end of the Bush years, conservative Jonah Goldberg came out with Liberal Fascism, a book attacking the left for their authoritarian leanings, which was only ironic given that we were living under his favored Republican administration, a government that
Lew Rockwell astutely criticized for being a real-life example of red-state fascism. Could it be that both sides have a point, even if they miss the irony?
In fact, the differences between modern liberalism and conservatism are usually overstated. There are ways in which each side is more fascist than the other – the right’s seemingly greater devotion to aggressive war and certain police-state measures, the left’s greater attachment to the economics of extreme interventionism.
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Fed official: policy audits undermine independence
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Letting a U.S. agency audit Federal Reserve monetary policy decisions would undermine the U.S. central bank's independence and could hamper its ability to control borrowing costs and support the dollar as the world's reserve currency, a Fed official said on Friday.
The things that made America great in earlier days no longer hold true today. The Constitution provided The People with a Republic that limited government and allowed for free society to run a free market. The Constitution states that it is the duty of Congress to issue money. Other countries that were not governed by a Republic were not allowed to think, create, and innovate. Products improved and became less expensive due to increased competition and greater efficiency. For the most part, the economy ran itself with little oversight. As a result America's prosperity soared. If you failed to make a decent product then you went out of business. If you were a bank and recklessly lended money you went bankrupt. If you made cars and paid a labor union worker $75 per hour to run pneumatic lug wrench, you went out of business. No company was ever too big to fail. These were the initial reasons why the US dollar was favored by other countries as form of backup currency.
In 1913 under President Woodrow Wilson, things changed. Against the Constitution, the money press was outsourced to a non governmental entity. Slowly but surely throughout the years, numerous wars, (most of which undeclared by Congress), labor unions and governmental intervention in businesses, the free market has all but vanished. Presidents have slowly taken their turns at chiseling away at the Constitution to the detriment of The People. Some countries have decided to opt out trading Oil in dollars for Euros, as well as ditching the dollar as a secondary currency. FDIC which insures that you will be able to withdraw your money is bankrupt. Are the other countries loosing faith in the dollar and should this be a warning sign to Americans? Iran issues their own currency and trades oil in Euros. Is this the reason for the recent interest in the hidden Nuclear facility in Iran and for the news to be conveniently released during the G20 summit, while the Audit the Federal Reserve 1207 hearings are taking place, all while the current administration is asking that the Federal Reserve have even more authority over our money? Senator Dodd supports the Fed as a "Super Cop". It makes your head spin.
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