…e good information in my book. You can read the first few pages at www.DrHurd.com. Be sure to “friend” Dr. Hurd on Facebook. Search under “Michael Hurd” (Rehoboth Beach DE). Get up-to-the-minute postings, recommended articles and links, and engage in back-and-forth discussion with Dr. Hurd on topics of interest…. Continue reading
…any therapeutic relationship? If this makes sense, there’s even more good information in my book. You can read the first few pages at www.DrHurd.com. Follow Dr. Hurd on Facebook. Search under “Michael Hurd” (Rehoboth Beach DE). Get up-to-the-minute postings, recommended articles and links, and engage in back-and-forth discussion with Dr. Hurd on topics of interest. Also follow Dr. Hurd on Twitter at @MichaelJHurd1, @DrHurd on Gab, drmichaelhur… Continue reading
…health care providers and patients/clients deeply resent) be improved by a complicated, arbitrary web of government directives designed to institutionalize such a system? Can a National Health Board of six or eight politicians actually succeed where free market mechanisms have supposedly failed? Many are tempted to believe that national health insurance, especially a single-payer plan such as the Canadian system, will solve the problem of medical… Continue reading
…h that block grant, each state can focus on providing the assistance to low-income families that they each need to buy health insurance.” Dr. Hurd: This assumes that it’s government’s responsibility to provide health care and insurance in the first place. This premise gave birth to Medicare and Medicaid, and all the bureaucracy and bankruptcy which followed, which much more coming. You cannot “reform” the inherently unreformable. It’s time to acce… Continue reading
…r neurotic fear in all who touch those benefits. Proponents of the transfer-of-wealth/entitlement state will reply, ‘Anyone can fall on hard times. The government is just there to help those in need.’ Indeed, this is the argument of most conservatives as well as most liberals when it comes to maintaining these benefits. Yet you are reading the numbers. The more people go on these programs, the more will stay on them. And they stay on them permanen… Continue reading
…s not going to stop until we learn what the consequences of such government-by-debt lead to, in practice. Watch and learn, because the politicians in charge—paid hacks whose job is to stay ‘yes’ to constituents, and nothing else—will never learn. We can argue about what government should be doing. A socialist will claim that government must do way, way more than an advocate of limited government and laissez-faire capitalism, such as myself, will c… Continue reading
…that investigates fraud in the nation’s largest nutrition support program. Complicating the situation is the fact states around the country are having trouble tracking and prosecuting the crimes because their enforcement budgets have been slashed despite the rapidly-rising number of food stamp recipients, according to the Government Accountability Office report. Under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, 47 million people have b… Continue reading
…self, you are free to start doing so … any time you choose. When seeking help, find people who help you do so. You can follow Dr. Hurd on Facebook. Search under “Michael Hurd” (Rehoboth Beach DE). Get up-to-the-minute postings, recommended articles and links, and engage in back-and-forth discussion with Dr. Hurd on topics of interest. Also follow Dr. Hurd on Twitter at @MichaelJHurd1… Continue reading
…ay the bills of seniors currently on the program. That mistaken impression complicates the job for policymakers trying to build political support in coming months for dealing with deficits that could drag the economy back down.” “Mistaken impression” is the important phrase here. Medicare persists due to a sense of justice. “I paid into this system, so I should get back what I paid.” This is how the Medicare system was sold, in the first place. Th… Continue reading
…is yourself. And if the motive were merely paternalistic, government would simply pass a law requiring you to save for your old age. That’s not what Social Security is about; it’s about wealth distribution on a massive scale. In order to convince Americans, especially back in the 1930s (before the Entitlement Era had fully taken hold in the United States) to agree to such a transfer of wealth, government had to rationalize, “It’s for your future s… Continue reading
…on and trade that we have today.” Yes, private sector: You did build the Internet. Be sure to “friend” Dr. Hurd on Facebook. Search under “Michael Hurd” (Rehoboth Beach DE). Get up-to-the-minute postings, recommended articles and links, and engage in back-and-forth discussion with Dr. Hurd on topics of interest…. Continue reading
…led ‘social metaphysics.’ Don’t run. I’ll define it for you. It’s not that complicated, really. Social metaphysics means letting other people, in some context, decide the standard. ‘Other people’ in whatever context replaces the standard of fact, reason, logic or even simple common sense. Ayn Rand, who wrote Atlas Shrugged and much else, defined it this way: ‘A social metaphysician is one who regards the consciousness of other men as superior to h… Continue reading