“The reason I’m a conservative is very simple,” he said. “Conservative policies work.” That is, he continued, fiscally conservative policies work for the 47 percent; they facilitate entrepreneurship, for example, and encourage people to chase economic mobility. Cruz, then, is calling for what he calls “opportunity conservatism.” What does that mean? “It means that conservatives should conceptualize and should articulate every domestic policy with a laser focus on easing the means of ascent,” he said. “That we should talk about policy with a Rawlsian lens.”First of all, conservative economic policies don't work. Second, conservative social policies not only don't work, they are rejected by a clear majority of Americans. Third, it is inconceivable that the Party of the Free Market Fairy will support a liberal (Rawlsian) approach to society.
Sunday, January 13, 2013
TED CRUZ CITES JOHN RAWLS(!?)
Erica Greider in The Texas Monthly provides a very interesting quote from Sen. Ted Cruz:
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You can't argue much with Denninger's conservative populism here:
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Congress and Obama share equal blame here. Government is spending about 40% more than it takes in via taxes, and this is utterly irresponsible and unsustainable. Alleged "GDP" must be adjusted to subtract back out deficit spending, and when you do that you find that we've been in a strong recession or economic depression for the last four years -- and still are!
The fact of the matter is that this is all coming from one place -- medical spending -- when one looks at the facts and trends. And this is not a new phenomena either; I was noting and writing on 10+% annual increases in medical costs in the private sector in the 1990s, and here we are a decade later while Congress has diddled itself and so have two successive administrations.
We simply must put a stop to this -- right now. Congress and The White House have only one option that can actually work:
Break the medical monopolies. All of them. Remove all special protections and make medical services and commodities subject to Robinson-Patman, along with the rest of anti-trust law. Put a stop to cost-shifting in all of its forms and end the ability of these firms to abuse the law to enforce pricing disparities of 1000% across national boundaries. This will ultimately drop the cost of care by as much as 80%, and while there will be therapies, drugs and devices that will disappear as their cost of provision will exceed what people can pay, virtually everyone will be able to pay cash for the services and goods they actually need (as opposed to want.)
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