Joseph Butson

What’s wrong with Canadian Public Health Care?

According to the President-Elect of the Canadian Medical Association, Brian Day, idiocy, hypocrisy and an ineffective system isn’t serving anyone well.

And he ought to know as the operator of private clinics in British Columbia. I love the story about 21 health care bureaucrats visiting his clinics but no one able to make a decision!

Agreed - but Al Qaeda is increasingly becoming linked to Iran - and Iran has its own agenda of imperialist control of the ME.

Al Qaeda’s agenda is the maintenance of tribalism within the ME, a tribalism grounded in a fundamentalist Islam - ie, undemocratic, theocratic, non-industrial.

It arose, in part, because of the post WWs change in the ME from a non-industrial economy into an industrial - but a change via a corrupt tribalism. Since the population at the time was technologically non-industrial, the oil industry had to be developed, technologically and financially, by the West. But, rather than moving into a democracy, the ME set up militant dictatorships where one tribe ruled by military authority, funded by oil revenues - over the rest of the population who had no benefits from this new oil economy. The result - the dev’t of fascism, a distorted attempt to remove the results of this new political system (military dictatorship of one tribe). However, Al Qaeda’s solution is to Go Back to Our Old Purity - ie, before industrialism. It won’t work; the populations are too large.

Democracy is the only solution.

BUT - Iran is moving into the chaos caused by this battle between The Old Pre-Industrial Way and Coorrupt Tribalism and a Mov’t To Democracy.

Iran’s agenda is imperialist - to control the whole ME. It is making use of the chaos - and moving into Iraq, assisting Al Qaeda there. Into Palestine, assisting Hamas there. Into Lebanon, assisting Hezbollah there. It’s already in Syria. Watch it continue to move in, create civil wars and terrorism - and take over.

Comment at SDA by the amazing contributor “ET.”

ET was responding to an op-ed by Senator Joe Lieberman: What I saw in  Iran

Even darlings of the left like Vaclav Have been moved to censure Iran throught the recently published Prague Document.

Any state that advocates appeasement will inherit the wind. Iran is playing the world for time while they abuse their own power, within and without their borders.

I watched Juan Williams, a Democratic Party strategist call Mark Steyn, a conservative columnist, a “self loathing immigrant” in a debate over the latest attempt at passing an immigration bill.

Mark Steyn had agreed the immigration system wasn’t working and reform was required. This despite the fact that Mr. Steryn had dutifully queued up for legal entry into the United States and was processed through a system that is the very definition of balkanized.

The current political debate keeps getting in the way of facts that the USA is the still a highly popular place for the world’s ambitious, talented and, alas, desperate would be citizens.

But just how progressive is it to decide, based on emotion, who should be allowed in and who should be allowed to stay? The requirements for legal entry to the US are set high for a very good reason. Any sovereign nation, anywhere in the world pretty much has a similar process.

As someone who has been “processed” by USCIS, if an American called me self-loathing for insisting that US law be obeyed, I wouldn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

Is the deal for Juan is that you have to, at first, follow the law in order to get to the point that you get to advocate breaking it?

Juan Williams owes every legal visa holder and recent immigrant a very public apology for one of the most revealing, pathetic comment made on television in a very long time.

Not only did Make Steyn leave his native land to contribute and support the US, give up rights to live as an expat, waited and paid for due immigration process under US law, but he accepted less rights than a typical US citizen for at least a decade [the minimum time it take to become a citizen.]

Juan Williams is entitled to his views of course. But he is a poser and hardly an advocate for illegal immigrants. He is nothing but a self loathing hypocrite that needs to experience the very process he would have illegal immigrants skip to truly understands the flawed nature of this bill. Having obeyed these arcane laws, he’d at least understand that either a quick fix, as the last Congress tried to pass, or a wonky compromise from the present one that regularizes law breakers isn’t going to work either.

Juan, and his fellow travelers in the Democratic pundit consultancy, are the same crowd who excoriate the private sector giant Walmart. This is the company that is likely the only organization in the world capable of managing as big a problem as the 10 to 15 million illegal immigrants on US soil.

Forget for a moment the politicians failure to remedy the illegal immigration problem and lets set aside the problems with much delayed and sclerotic legal immigration bureaucratic machine.

It is well established that federal government is incapable of handling the administration required to solve the problem. Only the private sector has the ability to process the background, address and employment verification needed to issue any kind of temporary visa. The compromise for the American nativist is to concede to “in country” process vs. mass deportation.

The problem begs a “Walmart” type solution. A modern logistic driven corporate marvel driven to maximize service and merchandising with ruthless efficiency.Walmart is a company that serves low to middle income Americans in an astonishingly effective way. It enjoys a very large following in the US Hispanic community in cities and small towns all over the United States. But to left of center political actors, it is a scourge and modern day “Dickensian” poor house. That’s their compromise.

If this private sector giant lead a cooperative effort to process the illegal immigrants, effectively and efficiently and profitably, where would that leave Juan Williams in his barely disguised zero sum tactics in the Democrats push for power?

Where would it leave the conservatives and their unrealistic perspective? Where would it leave the Republicans deserting the President who is earnest to solve the crisis?

Well, if it would shut down partisan posturing and get at solving the problem, why would that be a such a bad thing?

Update 6-1-07: Rasmussen Poll - The bill failed because only 23% of Americans support the failed bill.