tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666208467022745303.post4668239596488479712..comments2024-03-13T02:17:39.644-07:00Comments on Restating the Obvious: Book Review 373: The Greatest Benefit to MankindHarry Eagarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04196202758858876402noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666208467022745303.post-41155515042092610122016-10-31T07:22:19.500-07:002016-10-31T07:22:19.500-07:00Bollocks, Harry.
For one thing, you aren't ...Bollocks, Harry. <br /><br />For one thing, you aren't all that much older.<br /><br />For the other, you are wrong on the facts. I'll be you never once, never mind several times did this: <i>In fact, I have several times described [Venezuela] as a disastrous place to be poor. </i><br /><br />What you did say, several times, is that Venezuela is no worse under socialism than under capitalism. If reality disagrees, so much the worse for reality.<br /><br />Of course, I could be wrong, in which case you will provide at least several links showing exactly how you said what you say you said.<br /><br />And none showing how you said what I say you said.<br /><br />(I'm putting big money on one of: crickets, supersonic goalposts, or SQUIRREL!)Hey Skipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10798930502187234974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666208467022745303.post-53405806177088889142016-10-27T23:41:01.115-07:002016-10-27T23:41:01.115-07:00In order to make comparisons, you would need to co...In order to make comparisons, you would need to consult newspapers from relevant times past. I am older than you, so I read them contemporaneously.<br /><br />Harry Eagarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04196202758858876402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666208467022745303.post-3758735419535842562016-10-26T16:02:36.149-07:002016-10-26T16:02:36.149-07:00No, Harry, I'm just reading newspapers. Appar...No, Harry, I'm just reading newspapers. Apparently, you don't.Hey Skipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10798930502187234974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666208467022745303.post-70483008636858230542016-10-21T15:44:32.261-07:002016-10-21T15:44:32.261-07:00You keep confusing the poor with the rich. The ric...You keep confusing the poor with the rich. The rich are different.Harry Eagarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04196202758858876402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666208467022745303.post-23206870729747516162016-10-20T13:53:24.922-07:002016-10-20T13:53:24.922-07:00You just don't like that I state the obvious, ...<i>You just don't like that I state the obvious, that it was just as bad under the capitalist governments. </i><br /><br />Except that it wasn't, not even close.Hey Skipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10798930502187234974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666208467022745303.post-14596238029292036182016-10-18T14:01:31.802-07:002016-10-18T14:01:31.802-07:00You know, you are really tiresome. I have never sa...You know, you are really tiresome. I have never said Venezuela was a socialist or any other kind of paradise. In fact, I have several times described it as a disastrous place to be poor. You just don'tr like that I state the obvious, that it was just as bad under the capitalist governments.<br /><br />And I did not say most health care spending is wasted. I said most primary care visits are not based on organic disease. Even if 100% of primary visits were a waste, that would not come near being "most health care spending."Harry Eagarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15785581082018177620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666208467022745303.post-65618262923091868442016-10-18T11:35:16.017-07:002016-10-18T11:35:16.017-07:00You don't do math well, do you?
If most healt...You don't do math well, do you?<br /><br />If most health care spending is wasted, then mandating spending will only ensure more will be wasted. <br /><br /><i>I gather from your comments and posts at Great Guys you have embraced some sort of weird Christian cult since I first encountered you. But i was unsure which one. </i><br /><br />That is because if you were to actually quote my comments, you would realize the laughable mismatch between antecedent and consequent.<br /><br />But wait, there's more!<br /><br />In your socialist paradise, Venezuela, <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/infant-mortality-soars-in-venezuela-1476716417" rel="nofollow">Infant mortality is soaring.</a><br /><br />Which, as I am sure you will tell me, isn't possible because socialism can't possibly cause massive scarcity where it isn't already ensuring soul crushing rubbish.Hey Skipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10798930502187234974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666208467022745303.post-19740785443152081002016-10-17T17:04:33.461-07:002016-10-17T17:04:33.461-07:00No. People really do get sick. I gather from your ...No. People really do get sick. I gather from your comments and posts at Great Guys you have embraced some sort of weird Christian cult since I first encountered you. But i was unsure which one.<br /><br />Sounds like it was Christian ScienceHarry Eagarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04196202758858876402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666208467022745303.post-48106356931620895372016-10-16T06:54:07.404-07:002016-10-16T06:54:07.404-07:00For most of medical history, doctors offered solac...<i>For most of medical history, doctors offered solace not healing. And still today, that is most of what customers are asking for. And, according to Porter, not getting it, which helps explain the embrace of chiropractic and suchlike quackery. He is right at least as far as the quest for solace goes; Numerous studies have found that most (around 60%) of visits to primary care doctors are from people who do not have any organic condition. They just feel bad. </i><br /><br />Oh, so what you are saying here is that there was never any need for that metastasizing disaster known colloquially as Obamacare?Hey Skipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10798930502187234974noreply@blogger.com