Comments by "Ōkami-san" (@mweibleii) on "Thom Hartmann Program"
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accordio13 Firstly, in high concentrations, Hg is poisonous and it's a neurotoxin. Children should not have high exposures of Hg. Or Pb for that matter.
That said, Hg is normally found in low concentrations in: eggs, beef, rain water, soil, chicken, fish, and others.
Here's the preservative molecule that contains an element of Hg:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiomersal#mediaviewer/File:Thiomersal-Skeletal-Structure-SVG.svg
Much like eggs or rainwater, there's no good evidence to form a strong cogent argument Hg in the flu vaccine causes autism. It may. I mean, it is possible. It's reasonable to test. It's reasonable to limit exposure. What Thom is doing is a violation of reason. He and other's like him are causing hysteria.
Secondly, I'm certainly more than supportive of ongoing testing and, if the company can make a dose without Hg, simply price the non Hg containing vaccine double and sell that side by side. If you do not want the Hg containing vaccine, then pay more. If you don't care, pay less.
They truth is, no one knows what's causing the increase in autism. It may be an ion, it may be pesticides, it may be long term day care during formative years, it maybe modern society and plastics, or a combination of any or all and others.
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Heads Tails You're going to cherry pick ONE data point? Jesus, you call THAT a reasoned argument? Can you tell me how many Teacher Unions there were in 1940? How about Blacks voting? How many Blacks could vote in 1940? How about Welfare? How much generational welfare was their in 1940? Or a LONG list of a million other things - not to mention WWII! Secondly, tax doesn't create goods and services you dolt. The USA has NO PROBLEM raising capital, it raises over a trillion dollars a year. That money can redistribute WHO gets what, but it doesn't create goods or services. Those require productive investment and production. Which, according to YOUR logic, should be taxed at a higher rate - thereby limiting goods and reducing services, which will raise their price due to the reduced supply. Tax is a means to an end, not the end. Someone has to produce the good or service you want to consume. It doesn't just POOF in out of the ether because someone prints off some zeros on the end of a dollar, or prints more dollars, or collects more tax, or sells more bonds. Starting to see how it works? There's a reason WHY the tax rate was dramatically lowered and if you think people were living high on the hog during the War or immediate thereafter, you are smoking crack. Life was god damn tough on people in 1940 and they often went without and sometimes went hungry. So, my advice is you pick up a book and read first next time.
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Midas Snap Just who made your PC? An American? How about your smart phone? How about your modem? Your TV? Americans choose what they want to buy and consistently choose lower quality that is cheap over higher quality that is more expensive. Don't blame companies for meeting the market demand. I've known company owners who WANTED to keep their company in the USA but couldn't because Americans refuse to buy a higher quality product at a higher price - even when they'd save money in the long run as the lower quality made in China will often need replaced in a year whereas made in the USA may last a lifetime. Blame the consumer, do NOT blame the person who is providing the goods and services you want. Further, if you have high level skills (medical, coding, engineering, biotech, ...) there is PLENTY of jobs in the USA. If you don't, then go retrain because low skilled are never ever going to pay much money. This is a fact of life, and has been for 5000 years.
That aside, let's take YOUR argument. Soon we will have 3D Printers that will eliminate ALL mass production. There will BE NO factories. Or not many. Right now NEC has a PC that is 100% made by automation, it costs a little more than a normal PC but has a much lower default rate. So, when that day comes, and 3D printing becomes the norm, will Americans be LESS prosperous or MORE prosperous? Because, according to your logic, it's not the goods and services that is important, but the jobs. According to your logic, if we went back to digging holes by hand, we'd all be so much richer because MY GOD think of all the jobs.
The fact is, Americans live more prosperous now than any previous generation in history. The main things that effect Americans is their use of drugs and bad eating habits. Americans don't die of starvation, they die of boredom overeating while watching Netflicks. As for how to create more jobs, see the list at the top of the thread.
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Has Comcast or any other network provider charged $0.10 cents a post, listened in on your Skype conversation (outside of NSA forced recordings), or ANY of these other "possibilities"? No. They haven't. Because people will go to a different provider.
Now that the FCC has control over the internet, expect a Government issued logon ID. This is exactly what our Progressive Socialists want. To be your Internet Nanny.
Oh, and the FCC isn't cheap. We have to pay for more bloated bureaucrat salaries. Expect your monthly Internet tax to fit in nicely with your logon ID and NSA monitored usage fees.
And to ensure your not using up more than your "fair share" of the internet / The Commons, no more video game streaming, etc... no more torrent sites, no more anything Progressive Nanny doesn't like. You'll see. This'll turn out just like everything else the State F#@%$ up: public schools, financial regulations, FDA pink slime, police speed traps, etc....
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Rick's Channel Yes, that's correct. Let me phrase your question a different way: Do you think less regulatory-capture and less rent-seeking on the part of the current market participants and an increase in competition would bring in value and provide better healthcare goods and services? Or do you think using regulatory capture to limit healthcare goods and services to rent-seek and monopolize the healthcare market, with no need to provide fair price or value is going to provide better goods and services?
Further, suppose this: You can still obtain all of the current 'regulated' goods and services BUT allow for unregulated market participants to, within common law and contract law, also offer goods and services under the strict legal signage stating clearly "Unregulated". Then you can let people choose which they would like.
Do you currently have an fMRI scan done yearly? Probably not, as time on a machine is expensive. I know MDs who have scans once every 6 months (for free) because they simply say, make room for me. Would you like that option? Would you like an fMRI scan by an unlicensed unregulated professionally trained fMRI tech who could tell you if there were any abnormalities on your scan? Say you pay out of pocket $100.
Or, would you rather just take your chances with no scan. Will you give those of us who would, the opportunity to do so? I mean, it has nothing to do with you.
The fact is, regulations are there to ensure lion's share of the profit go to the current market participants. It has nothing at all to do with making things safer. It's actually making medicine less safe. I'm sure you would be quite shocked to learn how poor the quality currently is in terms of training. It's really low. I mean, shockingly low. I expect we'll see healthcare deaths due to negligence increase to a million a year by 2025. The only thing I see, that may change this, is some high level of technology that puts healthcare into hands of the tech companies. Other than that, expect quality to go down and price to go up. All thanks to over-regulation and rent-seeking through licencing.
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