Re: TI-Burr-Brown parts shartage?

On 3 Apr 2007 16:38:20 -0700, bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:

On Apr 3, 5:20 pm, John Larkin
<jjlar...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 3 Apr 2007 00:35:54 -0700, bill.slo...@xxxxxxxx wrote:

Unfortunately, private charity doesn't work anything like as a well as
a decent welfare system, as you can see by comparing U.S. puyblic
health statistics with those of the advanced industrial European
countries, not to mention places like Cuba and the state of Kerala in
India.

That's exactly not what the book is about. Read it and see.

Why? Private charity is a mildly interesting subject, but it isn't any
kind of substitute for a decent welfare system. I'm not all that
interested in tales of Christian Republicans playing Lady Bountiful
and ministering to the "deserving" poor.


I see. You have made up your mind and aren't interested in hearing
anything else. You *are* a Republican!

Somehow, I doubt that the
book will have much to say about the way private charity is sometimes
used to coerce the less-deserving poor into behaving in a way that
appeals to the charity-giver - the reviews didn't mention this aspect
of "charitable" behaviour.

The book does point out the selective nature of charity... as an
advantage.


And Cuba is, literally, falling apart.

But its public health statistics remain good despite the U.S.imposed
pressure on its economy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Cuba#Criticisms

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Cuba#Black_market_healthcare

http://medicinacubana.blogspot.com/2007/03/health-care-in-cuba-two-fa...

Cuba - like Kerala - is remarkably poor, but despite this its public
health health figures are remakably good.

Its public health propaganda is very good. And the US is not imposing
pressure, it's imposing a boycott. Cuba is free to trade with the rest
of the world, which is pretty big actually, yet remains "remarkably
poor." Has there ever been a non-poor communist country?

John


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