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Random Thoughts

Have you ever noticed how statists are constantly “reforming” their own handiwork? Education reform. Health-care reform. Welfare reform. Tax reform. The very fact that they’re always busy “reforming” is an implicit admission that they didn’t get it right the first 50 times.

If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.

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magneticmastermind asked: I just scrolled through your page briefly and saw two pictures, one of a flag wrapped around a fencepost and another upside down. What point are you expressing?

The photo of the flag laying on the railing, I just liked the photo.  It reminds me of summers of my younger days.

The photo of the flag upside down is something else altogether.  The upside down U.S. flag is an official signal of distress.  That post, more or less, represents my general feeling that these United States have lost their way, that the government is corrupt and abusive of it’s power, and that the government should be much less intrusive along with being vastly reduced in size and scope. Also, I believe I made that post after the Supreme Court wrongly upheld certain unconstitutional portions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, giving us the biggest increase in government since the New Deal.

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Resist

“And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.

So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”

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What, then, is legislation? It is an assumption by one man, or body of men, of absolute, irresponsible dominion over all other men whom they call subject to their power. It is the assumption by one man, or body of men, of a right to subject all other men to their will and their service. It is the assumption by one man, or body of men, of a right to abolish outright all the natural rights, all the natural liberty of all other men; to make all other men their slaves; to arbitrarily dictate to all other men what they may, and may not, do; what they may, and may not, have; what they may, and may not, be. It is, in short, the assumption of a right to banish the principle of human rights, the principle of justice itself, from off the earth, and set up their own personal will, pleasure, and interest in its place. All this, and nothing less, is involved in the very idea that there can be any such thing as human legislation that is obligatory upon those upon whom it is imposed.

…Supporters of Obamacare are willfully ignorant of basic economics. The fundamental problem with health care costs in America is that the doctor-patient relationship has been profoundly altered by third party interference. Third parties, either government agencies themselves or nominally private insurance companies virtually forced upon us by government policies, have not only destroyed doctor-patient confidentiality. They also inescapably drive up costs because basic market disciplines — supply and demand, price sensitivity, and profit signals — are destroyed … Obamacare, via its insurance mandate, is more of the same misdiagnosis.

Anonymous asked: Unless the US is going to start refusing care to all uninsured (i.e. letting people die in the ER who can't pay which is immoral), you can't have a perfect free market. Without a perfect, or close-to-normal free market, you can have competition and no individual mandate, and still see rising costs. I'm actually very pro-free market in most situations but this is one in which that doesn't work.

If you’re real goal is to lower health care cost to make it more affordable to the masses and thereby increase the number of people covered, the free market is the only way.  Part of the problem now is the fact that (the majority of) people don’t hold themselves accountable for the costs of their health care, they just pay whatever price is offered because their insurance pays for it…so hospitals will charge what ever they want, then the insurance companies pay those prices, then up go our rates.  

If you could shop for health care in a supermarket, like you can shop bread, then you could compare benefits and prices and choose the best solution for you.  This would drive down costs

See below:

antigovernmentextremist:

If you want to increase healthcare coverage to more people you need to remove the government from the equation. Healthcare should be viewed as a commodity subject to the same principles and laws of economics as everything else. Price controls, rules and regulations, licensing laws, subsidies and taxes only work to make healthcare more expensive while lining the pockets of the political connected. Instead let the market respond to the needs of the consumers.

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