Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Whole Foods Struggles With Health Care

I wish he said we need to get the govt out of health care, but here is pretty mainstream opposition to obamacare...

And if you wanted to know where a certain crude expression comes from, it is the result of medical quackery matched by government subsidy of tobacco farmers... to wit:

Click on image for larger view... to read fine print.. it will be well worth the click...


Things Looking Up For Int'l Trade

latest Census reports show both imports and exports are back heading up ... check it out...


We Need Jimmy Carter Now!

Jimmy Carter inherited a broken economy from the Republicans, and made the exact right moves: he appointed Volcker as Chairman of the Fed, and Volcker let interest rates go up to 21%, wiping out plenty of bad businesses. that is only one half...

The other half was Carter pushed through deregulation of air travel, trucking, beer and telephony, which gave the economy something to work on and we got more, better, cheaper, faster in travel, transportation, beer and telephony. The internet is the result of Jimmy Carter's moves. Of course there is a time lag for effects, so Ronald Reagan got all of the credit for Jimmy Carters policies.

If Obama wanted to do as much good as Carter, Obama could solve the health care crisis by deregulating health care. It ain't going to happen, because Obama has none of Carter's experience, wisdom, intelligence or integrity. Of course Carter was the kind of guy who would take the one term hit for his policies, Obama is not.

It doesn't have to be medicine...we could deregulate education and restart the economy... we could deregulate the garment industry and jump start it... something.... anything! It does not matter.. but we'll never restart until we allow something to grow...

Reagan did have a good line... "govt policy is "if it moves, tax it... if it keeps moving, regulate it... if it stops moving, subsidize it..." A good summary of the life cycle of USA innovation.