PBS Frontline show--gotta watch: "The Warning"

[Cain]

I'm pretty sure I've mentioned certain classical liberal economists (whose names escape me, except Hayek and Hume) have claimed this to be true.  But I don't remember if Adam Smith made the explicit claim, only that he was a lot more sceptical about the conditions under which a free market could operate than most modern advocates.

[LMNO]

Cool.  I'll keep hunting.

[Kai]

Talked to a frenchman today (was a visiting professor) about France's healthcare system. He said, "yeah, its great, but its bankrupt" and laughed. Apparently bureaucracy makes shit of even the best system.

[Halfbaked1]

Talked to a frenchman today (was a visiting professor) about France's healthcare system. He said, "yeah, its great, but its bankrupt" and laughed. Apparently bureaucracy makes shit of even the best system.

This. *nods sagely*

[Jenne]

I'd rather the system be bankrupt (and really--the French are just the people to do it--ever untangled the skein that is their government spending?  yeah...just don't go there, it'd give you a coronary) than the people using it, just saying.

Which reminds me of the YouTube of Al Franken reaming some Hudson Institute fuck over saying that Americans would go bankrupt using a system like the Swedes and the French.  That was some good lol's.