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** FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2019
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Some years ago I gave my expression to my own feeling – anti-patriotic feeling, it will doubtless be called – in a somewhat startling way. It was at the time of the second Afghan war, when, in pursuance of what were thought to be “our interests,” we were invading Afghanistan. News had come that some of our troops were in danger. At the Athenæum Club a well-known military man – then a captain but now a general – drew my attention to a telegram containing this news, and read it to me in a manner implying the belief that I should share his anxiety. I astounded him by replying – “When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don’t care if they are shot themselves.”
– Herbert Spencer, Facts and Comments [1902]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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September 13, 2019
The Folly of the Democratic Healthcare Debate ([link removed])
It was so amusing watching the Democratic presidential candidates get embroiled in an argument over which one of them has the best healthcare plan. Medicare for all or Medicare for some? Abolition of private insurance or optional private insurance? Reform Obamacare this way or that way? How to pay for each candidate’s healthcare plan?
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