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Instapundit: JERRY POURNELLE: “If the health care bill passes, it will fundamentally convert these United States…
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Pournelle puts his finger on the Health Care disaster: http://bit.ly/wWhCe Is this the day liberty died? #hhrs #tcot #gop 21 days ago |
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RT @esarphie: Pournelle puts his finger on the Health Care disaster: http://bit.ly/wWhCe Is this the day liberty died? #hhrs #tcot #gop 22 days ago |
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RT @kefuffles:MOURN the REPUBLIC! November 7th,09, HealthCareBill DayUnemployment is ovr 10% & rising. US cnt afford it http://bit.ly/1IJIhB 22 days ago |
JERRY POURNELLE: “If the health care bill passes, it will fundamentally convert these United States…
Instapundit —
... JERRY POURNELLE: “If the health care bill passes, it will fundamentally convert these United States into a different kind of popular democracy, which generally means rule by a unionized bureaucracy organized to vote. Once that much of the economy is run by government, economic recovery as many hope for will simply be impossible. Permanent unemployment at 7% or so; median income perhaps 10% higher than it is now, but not much higher; and a long period of stagflation. Reluctance to take on new employees, and great incentive to export jobs. Is this a picture of the future? ...
Pournelle on the Republic. [JHoward]
protein wisdom —
Writer Jerry Pournelle has a balanced view of how things work. This one is no different. h/t Reynolds. Meanwhile today may be the most important vote in Congress since the days of the New Deal. If the health care bill passes, it will fundamentally convert these United States into a different kind of popular democracy, which generally means rule by a unionized bureaucracy organized to vote. Once that much of the economy is run by government, economic recovery as many hope for will simply be impossible. Of course: By now the socialist constituency is vast and amounts to the ...
JERRY POURNELLE: “I would have thought that the Obama administration is at least as responsible for…
Instapundit —
... JERRY POURNELLE: “I would have thought that the Obama administration is at least as responsible for the US response to the Swine Flu problem as the Bush administration ever was for the New Orleans response to Katrina, but the media are not reporting it that way. I wonder how those who stood in long lines for hours only to find that there is no vaccine feel about the government’s coming takeover of the entire health care system? Will the new health care system work more smoothly than does, say, FEMA? Is there any reason to think so?” ...
Lesser Evil
The Ten O'Clock Scholar —
Found via Instapundit. Jerry Pournelle opines: “Unemployment is over 10%. It wasn’t supposed to get that high. TARP was supposed to fix that. . . . If the health care bill passes, it will fundamentally convert these United States into a different kind of popular democracy, which generally means rule by a unionized bureaucracy organized to vote. Once that much of the economy is run by government, economic recovery as many hope for will simply be impossible. Permanent unemployment at 7% or so; median income perhaps 10% higher than it is now, ...
