From "The History of Bloodletting", we learn how people were killed by learned physicians:
"Being ill meant having an imbalance of the four humors. Therefore treatment consisted of removing an amount of the excessive humor by various means such as bloodletting, purging, catharsis, diuresis, and so on. By the 1st century bloodletting was already a common treatment, but when Galen of Pergamum (129–200 AD) declared blood as the most dominant humor, the practice of venesection gained even greater importance."
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And from "Economics according to Premier Kathleen Wynne", we learn how to cure an ailing Province by increasing taxation to build a bigger government:
Ms. Wynne repeated the theme of the Fall Economic Statement, telling the National Post that while she expects to remain on target to balance the budget by 2017-18, if economic conditions are such that “those interim targets are going to be difficult for us to hit as we make investments that are going to make the economy grow, we are not going to stay on course.”
"Run Forest, Run!!!"
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All Kathleen is saying is that if unanticipated things happen, it would be the wrong time to try to balance the budget. Why do you make it sound like it's going to kill people?
ReplyDeleteUnanticipated? Such as higher hydro bills? How about more industries leaving the province? Big pay increases for government employess?
DeleteOh, wait a minute - all those things are anticipated. What in the hell could you possibly be talking about? What a dickhead.
Kathleen?
DeleteYour sister? Your friend?
What does she call you? Let me guess.
Dummy?
Sheep?
Vote?
All of the above?
Jeeezuss H.
Can't see the parallel, eh msholistic? You're clearly a financial idiot, which underscores the point. With "Kathleen" at the helm, the ensuing economic crisis will definitely get people killed. Philosophically, we call it "freezing in the dark with an empty belly".
Delete"...it would be the wrong time to balance the budget". Listen Sonny. With these sonsabeeches, it's ALWAYS the wrong time to balance the budget - to say nothing of paying down debt or creating an environment for true entrepreneurial (unsubsidized, market-driven) productivity. Smarten up lad!
Delete"...if economic conditions are such that “those interim targets are going to be difficult for us to hit as we make investments that are going to make the economy grow, we are not going to stay on course.”
ReplyDeleteInvestments. Funny how it used to mean something other than :increasing debt and deficits for ever and ever".
The sad thing is, not one journalist from any of our major news outlets has torn her a new one on this statement: a virtual admission that she has no intention of 'balancing the budget'.