I’m enjoying the outpouring of sympathy for the natural disaster in Haiti, from the entire Western world. It’s like, sure, your country was famous for its underdeveloped infrastructure and poverty and disease, but that was your fault. An earthquake that destroys hospitals full of those HIV-riddled children we didn’t give a crap about yesterday? GET [...]
Economic experts (ie: people who have never worked for a living, but like to talk about it a lot) are talking about what a boost to the economy lowering the minimum wage would be.
Actually, though, the argument works even better if you talk about lowering the maximum wage. Then we can hire more CEOs, at [...]
Hey! The American medical insurance scheme kills babies. Isn’t that awesome? They have actual proof! Babies! Being killed! Because they don’t have universal healthcare!
Why not? Why, it’s too expensive, of course.
Ignore the fact that it’s actually revenue neutral. You have to ignore that fact, because it’s more important that established insurance companies stay in business. [...]
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