Just sent the following to Canada's Eleanor Clift:
It is with interest that I read your article "Sarah Palin Unplugged" on April 16.
I had a couple of questions which I'd like to share with you about the article,
and the page, if you don't mind.
1) You wrote "Ruinous inflation will happen if the Tea Party had their way,
but only if you doubt that President Obama, with Volcker as an advisor,
won't be able to stare down the noise as he did with health care reform
and come up with new taxes and cost cuts."
This doesn't seem to comport with history: Volcker served under Ronald Reagan,
who was widely villified (at the time) for breaking the back of EXISTING inflation
by tamping down the money supply and massive tax CUTS.
That isn't conjecture, nor opinion: it is empirically-observed, history. It already
happened and has been recorded.
What then is your basis for saying a pursuit of new taxes (as you state) and
cost cuts (which will not happen: the Congressional Budget Office's numbers
were obtained by collecting the taxes for Obamacare for 10 years, but only
providing the services for 6 of them), will tamp down inflation?
2) You wrote "Personally, I prefer reasonable people with deas [sic] who treat others
with respect."
Can you show me where you excoriated people such as those in the following links:
http://laist.com/2008/10
/27/effigy_of_sarah_palin_hanging_in_we.php
Tommy Christopher's "Hate F***" article on Playboy
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2008/09
/19/2008-09-19_sandra_bernhard_issues_gang_rape_warning-2.html
3) You wrote "The facts are that US health care in 2009 inadequately covered 269 million
Americans out of 309 million at a cost of 16% of GDP.
Canadian health care covered 34 million
for 10% of GDP."
So for one and two/thirds the share of GDP, the US covered seven *TIMES* as many people as Canada!
(Yes, the US GDP is higher, but the cost of living and the standard of living are higher as well -- so it won't be a clean apples-to-apples comparison.)
Incidentally, how many Canadians come to the US for
elective surgery for which they are put on waiting
lists in Canada? How many advanced diagnostic instruments
such as MRIs are available per capita in Canada?
And when will Canada stop having their cost of
pharmaceuticals subsidized by US consumers in the form of artificially price differentials?
Finally --
You brought up Sarah Palin's $100,000 payday. So what? A year ago she was $500,000 in debt due to a slew
of frivolous lawsuits brought by shills for the left
abusing a loophole in Alaska state law. If the left had
stopped attacking her (recall also the slam at her daughter
by David Letterman, despite Obama's "injunction" to
leave the children out of personal attacks), she wouldn't
have aroused so much interest.
What is your speaking fee?
Finally--the link on your page concerning your
Professorship at Ryerson University seems to be inoperative.
What field is your degree in, what institution of higher learning did you attend, what was your GPA?
Best Regards,
(email name)
PS--
The link http://www.ryerson.ca/news/news/General_Public
/20071003_DFrancis.html gives the following page when
clicked:
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