George Will's mistake is that he is far from a centrist. The Republicans have shifted far from the center, their base is on the far right. If we are center right then McCain should have won easily, he lost badly. We are a center left country, the majority want health care, some kind of gun control, and want women to have a right to choose.
I would take it even further and add; no social welfare, no education welfare, no medical welfare, no housing welfare, and no more war on drugs; which is moral welfare.
Capitalism does not equal the opposite of Socialism. I personally like the idea of a reasonable social safety net and I think the amount of taxation required need not be overly burdensome to the extent that entrepreneurship would be impacted. I think an important precondition though would be to have a government run by people that don't think the government is an enemy to progress.
No subsidizing for medical research? What an idiotic proposition. We live longer than 35 years because gov'ts have sponsored research and scientists. There are other ways to prevent excessive profiteering.
he said no subsidizing of pharma companies for pharma development. He didn't say no sponsoring of research. Why should the fruit of government funding be donated to private companies as opposed to being in the public domain?
Almost all of our increased life-span over the last fifty years has been attributed to improvements in food handling techniques. Also, pharmaceutical companies spend more than twice as much on direct-to-patient advertising than they do on researching new drugs. Who knows how much research they do to find new complaints to treat. Plus, they justify their exorbitant pricing by claiming their profits go back into research. In other words, sorry, you are almost completely wrong.
George Will's mistake is that he is far from a centrist. The Republicans have shifted far from the center, their base is on the far right. If we are center right then McCain should have won easily, he lost badly. We are a center left country, the majority want health care, some kind of gun control, and want women to have a right to choose.
zaurakdigis 2 years ago
George Will is a political class clown to think this up.
Starskylar87 3 years ago
How's about no banking welfare asshole ?
abarefootboy 3 years ago 2
well said barefoot
jerryfoster41 3 years ago
I would take it even further and add; no social welfare, no education welfare, no medical welfare, no housing welfare, and no more war on drugs; which is moral welfare.
This list = Socialism
I thought we were Capitalists.
look2leap4 3 years ago
Capitalism does not equal the opposite of Socialism. I personally like the idea of a reasonable social safety net and I think the amount of taxation required need not be overly burdensome to the extent that entrepreneurship would be impacted. I think an important precondition though would be to have a government run by people that don't think the government is an enemy to progress.
bzemky 3 years ago
No subsidizing for medical research? What an idiotic proposition. We live longer than 35 years because gov'ts have sponsored research and scientists. There are other ways to prevent excessive profiteering.
blackwolf1272 3 years ago
he said no subsidizing of pharma companies for pharma development. He didn't say no sponsoring of research. Why should the fruit of government funding be donated to private companies as opposed to being in the public domain?
bzemky 3 years ago
Almost all of our increased life-span over the last fifty years has been attributed to improvements in food handling techniques. Also, pharmaceutical companies spend more than twice as much on direct-to-patient advertising than they do on researching new drugs. Who knows how much research they do to find new complaints to treat. Plus, they justify their exorbitant pricing by claiming their profits go back into research. In other words, sorry, you are almost completely wrong.
darlv2121809 3 years ago
Ok, I agree. Must have misunderstood him twice. I listened again and found you to be correct. Gotta so not write comments when I'm tired ;)
blackwolf1272 3 years ago
Sounds like a plan to me.
ImaScotsman 3 years ago