Comments by "disgruntledtoons" (@disgruntledtoons) on "Type Ashton" channel.

  1. Nations whose national defense is effectively funded by another nation can well afford to spend that money somewhere else, and need to recognize that their benefactor doesn't have this luxury.
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  2. The reason medical school has gotten so expensive is because American college funding is operated with near-total disregard for the law of supply and demand. If your response to rising prices is to enable the buyer to increase demand (and that is exactly what student loans do), you're going to get higher prices.
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  3. The government was in charge of deciding what was "fair". If you can't see how that can go badly, I can't help you.
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  4. Requiring journalists to be unbiased in their reporting means only that their biases cannot disagree with the biases of whoever enforces the policy.
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  5. Most people do not remember that before America's first foray into universal coverage, medical care was far and away less expensive than it is now. Americans are very skittish about universal health coverage because when it was tried in the 60's with the Medicare plan, the costs far exceeded the amounts that were initially promised. Ever since that time, Americans have been divided into the "do it no matter how much it costs" camp, and the "it costs too much, find another way" camp, and our public policy has careened drunkenly between these two positions. We have all of the problems of either approach and none of the benefits.
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  6. So the problem with the US is not that its government is too small or that it spends too little on social programs. The problem is that the US government screws up just about everything it does.
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