Cuban Healthcare
This is an excerpt of the positive part of the 38 min. video- it still has a lot of good information.
Competition Improving US Healthcare
Until I have time to write something, watch those two short videos.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Misconception of the Day: Minimum Wage
Minimum Wages undermines the poor, and working nation, it doesn't support them (us).
Raising the cost of hiring someone, doesn't make people pay those that they've hired more, it makes them fire people. It's not out of cruelty, it's out of the need to be sustainable, would you make lemonade and sell it on the side of an extreemly hot road for no pay? your whole life?
It also means that a company if less likely to hire 8 people, but instead only hire 5, and give the work load of 8 to 5 (or less) - in order to cut costs, workers have to do more.
Think of self-serve gas pumps, not all that long ago, they wern't self serve, mostly high school kids would take the job for about 2 dollars an hour (which would equate to a bit more than that now that our monetary system is so inflated), and they could do homework at the same time, as well as recieve tips.
When the "minimum wage" was created, forcing businesses to pay their workers at least 5 dollars, those jobs were eliminated.
It's difficult for a teenager to find a job that works with their hours, most jobs want someone more experienced, even Whole Foods only highers at 18.
This is what the minimum wage has done, is doing, to our country.
It's a myth that it's helpful, it doesn't raise pay, it eliminates jobs.
Raising the cost of hiring someone, doesn't make people pay those that they've hired more, it makes them fire people. It's not out of cruelty, it's out of the need to be sustainable, would you make lemonade and sell it on the side of an extreemly hot road for no pay? your whole life?
It also means that a company if less likely to hire 8 people, but instead only hire 5, and give the work load of 8 to 5 (or less) - in order to cut costs, workers have to do more.
Think of self-serve gas pumps, not all that long ago, they wern't self serve, mostly high school kids would take the job for about 2 dollars an hour (which would equate to a bit more than that now that our monetary system is so inflated), and they could do homework at the same time, as well as recieve tips.
When the "minimum wage" was created, forcing businesses to pay their workers at least 5 dollars, those jobs were eliminated.
It's difficult for a teenager to find a job that works with their hours, most jobs want someone more experienced, even Whole Foods only highers at 18.
This is what the minimum wage has done, is doing, to our country.
It's a myth that it's helpful, it doesn't raise pay, it eliminates jobs.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Our Constitution
Our constitution was written with the knowledge that societies are evolutionary systems, and that the purpose of writing a constitution wasn't to dictate laws and customs but to devise a concise foundation that laws and customs could evolve within. A constitution provides all people with certain expectations of experience, being that Liberty, Order, and Justice are respected by all written and unwritten laws.
The role of our constitution is to uphold the principles of Liberty, Order, and Justice. These three ideals put into practice provide the most freedom and prosperity to those living within them. Our consitution calls for a limited decentralized government, that it is to protect the constitutional principles and not change them for light and transient causes, thus. an amendment can only be made by a majority of the nation. The individuals working within the government are to be accountable for their actions and represent the concerns of the nations individuals.
Liberty allows for individuals to pursue their own interests (their own ends) purposefully. Order calls for individuals to give up certain freedoms in order to come to a higher sense of freedom, where all individuals can pursue their own interests. Finally, justice which dictates that all are created equal and have the right to pursue their interests with equality, though this does not infer that all peoples plans will have equal results.
Lastly and most important, what is needed for a constitution to serve its purpose of protecting such foundational rights, and because our laws and customs are evolutionary rather than static, we each have an obligation to be fully aware of the constitution and act accordingly to preserve the principles of our nation.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Further on Peace
Peace is created through trade.
Trade is dependent upon freedom.
Freedom is dependent upon economic and political freedoms.
Economic and political freedoms are dependent upon which role the government chooses to take.
The role government chooses to take, ought to be dictated by individuals that understand the principles of liberty.
We need more rebels and less revolutionaries.
We need new change not a circle of the same with diffrent faces to blame.
We need globalization, open borders, ethical-concious- capitalism, governments that protect only our liberties, we need true private property, competition in money and "public services" we need to privitize thereby instituting private incintive.
Freedom of our Natural Rights (Freedom to move, to trade, to own property) is the strongest protection against serfdom, creates the most wealth (not only monetary or phyisical)for the society as a whole, and creates peace.
Governments "providing" education, health care, this new idea of carczar, these are all things that re-allocate resources, in other words, taking resources from where they were formerly for "the greater good". The resources I am speaking of here are, tax money, time of the individuals working in these instritutions, and the resources of the entire human that is developing/acting within the institution. The issue with this occurance cannot as easily be backed up from an humanirtarian point of view, so one must take up the words of Liberty and a strong understanding of "that which is not seen" -Bastiat.
Government provisions, slow societies progress, think of the railroads during the industrial revolution era, the government lines were set down poorly and needed millions of dollars to opperate. The private lines were incredibly efficient because the risk of failure and the costs of production were on an individual or smaller group of individuals.
We must ask our selves, how were cars created in the first place? Freedom of innovation in the industrial revolution.
Why are so many of our cars today big gas guzzlers? Because Government regulations have put high embargos on foreign trade in the market area of Cars. Which has created incorrect signals, through prices, to the car industry for the actual demand that the consumers had for more gas efficiant, dollar saving, vehicles.
Eastern cars have had the answers for years.
Think, how much has our public education, over all, progressed these last 200 years?
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Look at the Health Care in almost any other location in the world, save maybe Hong Kong, for the answers as to why socialized medicines fail our peoples. Examples in video form: Free Market Cure
The old idea that war brings us out of a depression is along with the same fallasy, this idea that redistribution of resources is beneficial to society.
Why have we spent so much time working on prosthetic limbs as such a large scale? Because of war. Why haven't we, instead, spent that time and effort on curing cancer (because believe it or not we are quite close I do believe), and, there is a private scientist who is discovering if she hasn't already discovered ways to stop a virus's mechanism of communication- why have we not invested more there?
Well that brings up another idea, why is the government subsidizing medicines, why are the costs of medical care and pharmosuticals so high?
Markets are self-correcting, markets clear. Prices are not set by the supplier, prices are determined by demand and are a reflection of relative scarcity.
So those are few thoughts floating around in my head.
I've got other things I must go do now.
Hope it inspires some questions for you.
Rachel.
Peace Through Commerce
Trade is dependent upon freedom.
Freedom is dependent upon economic and political freedoms.
Economic and political freedoms are dependent upon which role the government chooses to take.
The role government chooses to take, ought to be dictated by individuals that understand the principles of liberty.
We need more rebels and less revolutionaries.
We need new change not a circle of the same with diffrent faces to blame.
We need globalization, open borders, ethical-concious- capitalism, governments that protect only our liberties, we need true private property, competition in money and "public services" we need to privitize thereby instituting private incintive.
Freedom of our Natural Rights (Freedom to move, to trade, to own property) is the strongest protection against serfdom, creates the most wealth (not only monetary or phyisical)for the society as a whole, and creates peace.
Governments "providing" education, health care, this new idea of carczar, these are all things that re-allocate resources, in other words, taking resources from where they were formerly for "the greater good". The resources I am speaking of here are, tax money, time of the individuals working in these instritutions, and the resources of the entire human that is developing/acting within the institution. The issue with this occurance cannot as easily be backed up from an humanirtarian point of view, so one must take up the words of Liberty and a strong understanding of "that which is not seen" -Bastiat.
Government provisions, slow societies progress, think of the railroads during the industrial revolution era, the government lines were set down poorly and needed millions of dollars to opperate. The private lines were incredibly efficient because the risk of failure and the costs of production were on an individual or smaller group of individuals.
We must ask our selves, how were cars created in the first place? Freedom of innovation in the industrial revolution.
Why are so many of our cars today big gas guzzlers? Because Government regulations have put high embargos on foreign trade in the market area of Cars. Which has created incorrect signals, through prices, to the car industry for the actual demand that the consumers had for more gas efficiant, dollar saving, vehicles.
Eastern cars have had the answers for years.
Think, how much has our public education, over all, progressed these last 200 years?
...
Look at the Health Care in almost any other location in the world, save maybe Hong Kong, for the answers as to why socialized medicines fail our peoples. Examples in video form: Free Market Cure
The old idea that war brings us out of a depression is along with the same fallasy, this idea that redistribution of resources is beneficial to society.
Why have we spent so much time working on prosthetic limbs as such a large scale? Because of war. Why haven't we, instead, spent that time and effort on curing cancer (because believe it or not we are quite close I do believe), and, there is a private scientist who is discovering if she hasn't already discovered ways to stop a virus's mechanism of communication- why have we not invested more there?
Well that brings up another idea, why is the government subsidizing medicines, why are the costs of medical care and pharmosuticals so high?
Markets are self-correcting, markets clear. Prices are not set by the supplier, prices are determined by demand and are a reflection of relative scarcity.
So those are few thoughts floating around in my head.
I've got other things I must go do now.
Hope it inspires some questions for you.
Rachel.
Peace Through Commerce
Friday, November 7, 2008
Peace
"Veterans have and will continue to fight on for peace and the rights of his or her country men until there is no need for war."
I believe that peace isn't something you can fight for, not violently, I would hesitate to even say that one can metaphorically fight inorder to achieve peace.
Peace is not meerly the absence of coercion, it's something much more, and therefor couldn't be a state one achieves though violence. When one engages in a war (no matter what scale) it implies a vanquisher and a vanquished, the vanquished is then expected to submit (by force) to the new situation that they are now (made unwillingly to be) in. Can the state of the now vanquished really be called peace even though there is no longer a war taking place?
There is always conflict, shouldn't be seen as war, conflict is the process of knowledge growth - the growth of society, it's how you solve the conflict that is necessary. Conflict can be between ideas, choices (which hat do I buy?), decisions between people, etc.
There ought not be nonvoluntary conflict resolution (war)- in other words, all trade and communication ought to be voluntary. A made action, is a decision made about which was the best choice between any number of options you had before you made the action, implys value.
Could peace be seen as two people making choices that are mutualistic? ( Mutualistic by unintintionalyI may add, for the doll maker and the doll buyer have diffrent reasons for doing their particular action, yet they both support each other and them selves- voluntary actions actually creates wealth! How beautiful is that! It's not the doll that holds the wealth[ the material objects] it's the value one gives to said object that is the wealth the exchanges of diffrent values makes people more wealthy because people trade things becaues they value the thing they are trading for more than what they have [i.e. I value Ice cream more than 2 dollars, sometimes]).
I would say, yes, I honor and respect all humans for the daily choices they make- because all people have reasons and intentions for action, that spring forth from their values. We are all individuals with values, when two individuals meet and agree on something or disagree there is a growth of knowledge to the individual and therefor to the society. (For a society ought to be defined as a group of individuals). "True peace ... suggests the triumph of justice and love among men; it reveals the existence of a better world wherein harmony reigns." (Peace and education Montessori Page 7)
I believe that peace isn't something you can fight for, not violently, I would hesitate to even say that one can metaphorically fight inorder to achieve peace.
Peace is not meerly the absence of coercion, it's something much more, and therefor couldn't be a state one achieves though violence. When one engages in a war (no matter what scale) it implies a vanquisher and a vanquished, the vanquished is then expected to submit (by force) to the new situation that they are now (made unwillingly to be) in. Can the state of the now vanquished really be called peace even though there is no longer a war taking place?
There is always conflict, shouldn't be seen as war, conflict is the process of knowledge growth - the growth of society, it's how you solve the conflict that is necessary. Conflict can be between ideas, choices (which hat do I buy?), decisions between people, etc.
There ought not be nonvoluntary conflict resolution (war)- in other words, all trade and communication ought to be voluntary. A made action, is a decision made about which was the best choice between any number of options you had before you made the action, implys value.
Could peace be seen as two people making choices that are mutualistic? ( Mutualistic by unintintionalyI may add, for the doll maker and the doll buyer have diffrent reasons for doing their particular action, yet they both support each other and them selves- voluntary actions actually creates wealth! How beautiful is that! It's not the doll that holds the wealth[ the material objects] it's the value one gives to said object that is the wealth the exchanges of diffrent values makes people more wealthy because people trade things becaues they value the thing they are trading for more than what they have [i.e. I value Ice cream more than 2 dollars, sometimes]).
I would say, yes, I honor and respect all humans for the daily choices they make- because all people have reasons and intentions for action, that spring forth from their values. We are all individuals with values, when two individuals meet and agree on something or disagree there is a growth of knowledge to the individual and therefor to the society. (For a society ought to be defined as a group of individuals). "True peace ... suggests the triumph of justice and love among men; it reveals the existence of a better world wherein harmony reigns." (Peace and education Montessori Page 7)
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
The globe is sphericalish
Rachel Milner
The world is spherical (in as close to relation you can come, disregarding small irregularities such as that the globe is kind of squatty).
What assumptions do I rely upon when I agree with the concept of a spherical earth, and where are my flaws in said assumptions?
Proposition One:
+ If I were to take a reliable mode of travel, such as a ship or plane, and follow in any one direction a compass, I would make a full rotation around the earth, finding myself where I began; therefor, the world is spherical.
1. Assumption One
My senses and efforts to discern the truth of the matter are not thwarted by any outside influences, dependent perhaps upon the assumption that I exist as an independent thinking and experiencing entity at all. That I am able to accurately judge my direction in relation to the earth, where I’ve come from, and where I’m headed.
2.Assumption Two
A compass is constant in the direction that it points towards without significant enough miscalculation to divert me from the circumvention of the globe.
3. Assumption Three-
Once I have circumvented the globe that it is safe to say that it is a sphere and not merely a circle.
Proposition Two:
+The world is spherical because when you go high enough from the surface of it you can see curvature beyond where if it were a circle you would have seen the end.
1. Assumption- the world is not a dome.
Proposition Three:
+Because there is graduating day and night on both “sides” of the globe it is not flat.
1. Assumption One-
The world is rotating very quickly, too quickly to discount the idea that the earth rotates slowly enough to create graduated night and day
2. Assumption two-
That if the earth were to rotate as significantly slower the temperature would be drastically hotter.
The world is spherical (in as close to relation you can come, disregarding small irregularities such as that the globe is kind of squatty).
What assumptions do I rely upon when I agree with the concept of a spherical earth, and where are my flaws in said assumptions?
Proposition One:
+ If I were to take a reliable mode of travel, such as a ship or plane, and follow in any one direction a compass, I would make a full rotation around the earth, finding myself where I began; therefor, the world is spherical.
1. Assumption One
My senses and efforts to discern the truth of the matter are not thwarted by any outside influences, dependent perhaps upon the assumption that I exist as an independent thinking and experiencing entity at all. That I am able to accurately judge my direction in relation to the earth, where I’ve come from, and where I’m headed.
2.Assumption Two
A compass is constant in the direction that it points towards without significant enough miscalculation to divert me from the circumvention of the globe.
3. Assumption Three-
Once I have circumvented the globe that it is safe to say that it is a sphere and not merely a circle.
Proposition Two:
+The world is spherical because when you go high enough from the surface of it you can see curvature beyond where if it were a circle you would have seen the end.
1. Assumption- the world is not a dome.
Proposition Three:
+Because there is graduating day and night on both “sides” of the globe it is not flat.
1. Assumption One-
The world is rotating very quickly, too quickly to discount the idea that the earth rotates slowly enough to create graduated night and day
2. Assumption two-
That if the earth were to rotate as significantly slower the temperature would be drastically hotter.
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