CLASSIC!
I just love this guy. He says everything I want to say and writes it all up so clearly. It's great to have a voice outside the US that is pro-America.
STEYN RULES!
BTW - How is his last name pronounced? Stine? Stain? Steen? (please, no stuning jokes)
"As for this Bush-failed-to-get-bin-Laden business, 2-1/2 years ago I declared that Osama was dead and he's never written to complain. There's no more evidence for his present existence than there is for the Loch Ness monster, which at least does us the courtesy of showing up as a indistinct gray blur on a photograph every now and again. Osama is lying low because he's in no condition to get up."
Bravo!
Damn
I'm in Love..
Amazing clarity bump.
I don't know anything about Canadian hospitals but I do know that our hospitals system is cracking and failings under the strain of trying to service those who can't pay. Emergency rooms are closing all across the country. Newspapers are full of stories of deficiences - most notably, but hardly uniquely, King-Drew in Los Angeles. I do know that there's a shortage of hospital personnel, specifically nurses, because the medical professions are becoming increasingly less desireable.
I don't know how many are dying in our hospitals because of bad service but I do know many, many are dying because they can't afford to get any service at all.
Last night I dreamed of the Republican October Surprise Headline, BUSH FLIES TO AFGANISTAN, SHOOTS BIN LADEN PERSONALLY.
Another Steyn home run!! God, this man is a great writer and I thank the various posters who bring him to FR since I can't rely on the MSM to carry his columns.
I vote we make Mark Steyn an honorary American if he would be gracious enough to accept.
I DO NOT LIKE AMERICA PERSON KERRY HE IS NOT GOOD HE IS STUPID TOILET PAPER COMUNIST!!! I DO NOT LIKE COMUNIST!!!!. America President is good strong that is good America be strong great country I like America President that person is good!!!!
Another gem from Mr. Steyn!!
I had a Canadian friend who went to the hospital because she hurt her back at her health club. She came home after the x-ray and woke up the next day with a staff infection on both ears where the xray machine had held her head. They had to treat the infection before they could do anything about the back. It was very serious.
I'm so glad he mentioned this because I think he's absolutely right.
So what's the best way to deal with this?
a) encourage birth control
b) slaughter them
c) stick our heads in the sand and ignore the problem
I mean the perfect storm the Europeans will face within this decade, because their lavish welfare states are unsustainable on their shriveled post-Christian birth rates.
I'm glad he mentioned this too because I think he's right. But
"America's emergency rooms are becoming the providers of last resort for a system that now consumes 58 percent of our gross domestic product, yet leaves 44 million people without insurance coverage. And tens of millions of people are literally one illness away from personal bankruptcy"
from a speech recently delivered by John A. Kitzhaber, MD - an emergency physician and governor of Oregon from 1995 to 2003. For those interested in reasing the full speech; it was the James D. Mills Memorial Lecture.
In addition to the financial problems of our health care system we have an enormous government debt and an enormous balance of payments debt - and are facing skyrocketing oil prices. I doubt very much that these problems will be solved by increasing our birth rate.
STEYN-O-MITE!
excellent! bttt
Outstanding commentary! One of his best.
So9
!!BUMP!! I do love Mark Steyn.