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. You cannot have one without the other.
100% stupid strawman of course. You can't have a brain surgeon without a brain but that does not mean the patient is as important as the surgeon!!! Patients got sick and died naturally for 1 million years until the surgeon suddenly learned to supply the cure.
We don't need to encourage patients to get sick or people to demand food clothing and shelter. It happens naturally. What we must encourage is the Republican supply of surgeons.
Simple enough for you?
Why do you keep using the word "Republican" incorrectly? That's what I am wondering. Is anyone else here curious?
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You can have as many people who are qualified to perform brain surgery as you like, it will never create one single patient for those people to perform that skill on. If they never actually do perform their service of brain surgery because there is no supply of people who's brain needs surgery on... they are not brain surgeons... they are only people who could potentially BE a brain surgeon, IF someone needed brain surgery. Likewise, you can have every person on the planet in need of someone to operate on their brain and without that person, there is not a brain surgery patient. You can't have one without the other. You need a brain surgeon AND a patient. Supply and Demand.
You talking nonsense when you say things like "we don't need to encourage patients to get sick..." What the fuck is that even supposed to mean? Patients in a hospital? Isn't a "patient" someone who IS sick? Do you mean 'we shouldn't encourage PEOPLE to get sick?' I agree! We shouldn't be letting government take over our health care. It's insanity. We will not solve our health care problem by allowing corporatists with insurance companies and health care associations, along with federal agencies out the ying-yang to lord over the system. We signed our death warrants when we took it completely out of the hands of free market capitalism.
We will be LUCKY if we EVER manage to un-fuck the mess that has been created. But it all has to start with people educating themselves about FREE MARKET CAPITALISM. You are a total embarrassment... you don't need to be out there speaking about "Econ 101" because you're a moron who doesn't fully understand free market capitalism. First principles... The Law of Supply and Demand. You perverted it into some bizarre formula that could be manipulated with prices and innovations. The Law of Supply and Demand does not change. It's bedrock.
Innovations are great... I've not contested that one bit. I believe in a free enterprise system where government not only gets out of the way of innovation but actively supports it as much as possible through grants and such. I don't have a problem with that but we can't go crazy... right now, you can go apply for a grant to study bacterial growth found in jello and vodka when slurped from the belly-button of a hot young co-ed. I don't want to waste tax dollars on that. I would rather use them to do something else... that's just me.
But free market capitalist principles are important to understand in a free market / free enterprise system like ours. First thing you have to understand is that we're not fucking Scandinavia. We have a different system. The things which work for them will not work in our system, they will gum it up and clog everything and then we're screwed. We have to forget about what Eurotrash are doing and focus on what WE do... which is free market / free enterprise capitalism.