Showing posts with label price gouging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label price gouging. Show all posts

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Health Insurnce Companies are a Drag

We had assumed that ObamaCare would not destroy private health insurance until it is fully implemented in 2014, giving us time to defund it, to slow it down, and then to repeal it. But Sebelius is putting us on notice that the Obama administration intends to use the vast and arbitrary regulatory powers granted in the law to shut down private insurance now.

That's why we're going to need a new crop of radicals in Congress. They won't just need to engage in parliamentary stalling tactics to gum up the legislative works. They will need to launch an all-out battle to restrain an administration that is fully committed to using its unchecked, tyrannical regulatory power to override the will of the people and destroy what is left of American liberty.
Pamela Geller

This analysis overlooks the 50 millions Americans who lack health care and the others who pay double for the protection they have. The rest of the industrialized world enjoy a form of singlepayer, which disallows the health care professionals and corporations from cheating the public.

Thursday, June 26, 2008

A Hungry Mob is an Angry Mob

A Hungry Mob is an Angry Mob

John Maxwell, blackagendareport.com

"In Lima, Peru, relief food supplies are delivered to householders by night in order to avoid the threat of hungry mobs."

Sea level rise and global warming are both anthropogenic - caused by human activity - and famine has historically been more the result of political decisions than of crop failure. Today, American food producers and traders have besieged the Commodities Futures Trading Commission which regulates US commodity markets. According to capitalist theory, commodity markets and all other free market institutions are essential components of the equitable management of world trade, balancing supply and demand and performing a function so disinterested that it can almost be considered a public service.

The father of capitalist theory, Adam Smith, thought otherwise. While he extolled the essential fairness of the "invisible hand" he decried the inherent greed and self interest to which most businessmen were prone. According to Adam Smith:

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." (The Wealth of Nations: Vol. 1, Book 1, Chap 10)

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Saturday, May 10, 2008

The Big Players Bid to Take Over America

The big boys decided the people were getting too uppity. Imagine, a black man running for President. Big government did away with oversight and maintenance of the infrastructure. Big finance indulged in faulty mortgages to increase profits and to strip the public of home equity. The media popularized the war effort and hid the tax cuts given the wealthy. Reckless deficit spending and mounting debt lowered the dollar confidence of overseas investors. The dollar weakened driving up oil prices for Americans, with oil prices relatively constant for the rest of the world. Consequently, there is an increase in the demand for oil.
The huge food companies took advantage to triple the price of rice and to make other products jump in price also. Voodoo economics [giving corporate tax cuts in time of war] eliminated jobs growth. Indeed, we lose 80,000 jobs every month.
Unemployment increases, home foreclosures, rising fuel and food prices have driven consumer confidence to low levels.
Lower consumer spending eliminates jobs. Thus, there is nothing to stop the downward spiral.
Have a good day.

It is well nigh impossible to prosecute high US officials here. They own law enforcement and the judiciary. Possible witnesses are bribed or murdered.
The President offers a solution. He would declare suspects and witnesses as enemy combatants and would put them into Gitmo until they confessed [or implicated those really guilty].