I've enjoyed sharing with you throughout the semester. Hopefully you learned something or have seen another way of thinking. The semester started off real slow, but it seems now that things are flying by. It won't be long til Christmas now. It's gotten a little colder since the start of the semester, but for November it feels real good. Maybe we'll get some snow-it makes everything look so much better.
Well, enough rambling. Have a great rest of the semester and good luck on finals.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Socialism on the Way
This weekend we came yet again another step closer to a world run by President Obama. The national health care plan that passed the House is sitting in the Senate now. What can we expect now?
Luckily there are a few more sensible people in the Senate than the House, but that isn't saying much. The hot topic that most of the news seems to be focusing on now is the issue of government funded abortions that have been laid out in the bill. While that may not be something I approve of, it is only a small portion of what is wrong with what is happening.
The bill imposes fines on people that do not buy health insurance. This is stupid. If you are healthy and do not believe you need health insurance, why should you be forced to buy it? The Democrats have tried to make it sound like they are fighting the insurance companies to help consumers, but in that instance it sounds like they are just increasing their customer base with force.
Health insurance used to be like car insurance or any other kind of insurance, meant to cover catastrophic events. If your car is leaking oil does GEICO step in and fix it? What if you rip a seat? If they were made to cover those type of incidents insurance would be completely unaffordable. Health insurance should be the same way, and people wouldn't try to take advantage of the system and we would have lower costs. You shouldn't run to the doctor because you scrape your knee. It is ridiculous that every taxpayer in America should cover the cost of you going to see about something that needs $.25 of peroxide and a Band-Aid.
The government could have easily tried something else first. How about making hospitals and medical services advertise prices? There is little to no competition in the health care market, period. With competition or at least the knowledge of prices consumers could find cheaper routes.
Have a great week.
Luckily there are a few more sensible people in the Senate than the House, but that isn't saying much. The hot topic that most of the news seems to be focusing on now is the issue of government funded abortions that have been laid out in the bill. While that may not be something I approve of, it is only a small portion of what is wrong with what is happening.
The bill imposes fines on people that do not buy health insurance. This is stupid. If you are healthy and do not believe you need health insurance, why should you be forced to buy it? The Democrats have tried to make it sound like they are fighting the insurance companies to help consumers, but in that instance it sounds like they are just increasing their customer base with force.
Health insurance used to be like car insurance or any other kind of insurance, meant to cover catastrophic events. If your car is leaking oil does GEICO step in and fix it? What if you rip a seat? If they were made to cover those type of incidents insurance would be completely unaffordable. Health insurance should be the same way, and people wouldn't try to take advantage of the system and we would have lower costs. You shouldn't run to the doctor because you scrape your knee. It is ridiculous that every taxpayer in America should cover the cost of you going to see about something that needs $.25 of peroxide and a Band-Aid.
The government could have easily tried something else first. How about making hospitals and medical services advertise prices? There is little to no competition in the health care market, period. With competition or at least the knowledge of prices consumers could find cheaper routes.
Have a great week.
Monday, November 2, 2009
The swine flu is good?
In a little odd news this morning, Clorox posted a 23% jump in first quarter profit. They attributed it to an increase in demand for its disinfectants related to the swine flu pandemic, as Diane calls it. They didn't only beat analysts estimates, they beat their own estimates. On another note, they expect earnings to be better this year off of a weaker dollar.
The weaker dollar issue has its good and bad issues. A weaker dollar means that more people are buying U.S. goods, but it also means that we can't buy as much from overseas. While the influx of foreign money is a good deal for our economy, it rarely is in the form of capital investment. Capital investment is the kind of inflows we need to stabilize the economy. Capital investment creates jobs from construction down to the janitors that clean the buildings after they are complete. Capital investment can come in many forms. One major capital investment that our country has from Japan are auto manufacturing plants. While most of them have been here for a while now, the relative cheapness of the dollar to the yen was part of what started that trend. So now, many foreign cars are made here- also partly due to the fact that the U.S. is the world's largest car market by a big margin.
Have a good week. No tests!
The weaker dollar issue has its good and bad issues. A weaker dollar means that more people are buying U.S. goods, but it also means that we can't buy as much from overseas. While the influx of foreign money is a good deal for our economy, it rarely is in the form of capital investment. Capital investment is the kind of inflows we need to stabilize the economy. Capital investment creates jobs from construction down to the janitors that clean the buildings after they are complete. Capital investment can come in many forms. One major capital investment that our country has from Japan are auto manufacturing plants. While most of them have been here for a while now, the relative cheapness of the dollar to the yen was part of what started that trend. So now, many foreign cars are made here- also partly due to the fact that the U.S. is the world's largest car market by a big margin.
Have a good week. No tests!
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