Link to source.

Bottom line: Insurance is a lousy way to pay for health care.

Here the basic observation is that creating an artificial pool of money to pay for needs inspires an industry of special interests to form around the pool for the purpose of exploiting it. In the process, the hope of mutual aid becomes stillborn.

“How doe…

you doe?”

https://www.pilotonline.com/opinion/letters/vp-ed-letb-0912-20190912-hmz3gyhra5fc3jurf262nsjide-story.html

The writer makes a limiting assumption.

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“Go ahead…

All I’m getting is static.”

http://www.unz.com/article/how-the-cia-mossad-and-the-epstein-network-are-exploiting-mass-shootings-to-create-an-orwellian-nightmare/

I don’t think there are many Americans who know how much we are all under surveillance or appreciate the significance of it. The link gives a glimpse into our reality.

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Talk to…

the hand.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-fires-national-security-adviser-john-bolton-n1051986

The Pilot hasn’t picked it up yet, but this will do.

https://www.pilotonline.com/opinion/letters/vp-ed-letd-0910-20190910-o53xpcz5cjgtdazjhyqcje4ode-story.html

I like this letter because it mentions the concept of opportunity cost.

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“Then I thought…

why not?”

http://www.unz.com/article/what-we-still-do-not-know-about-russiagate/

Unz Review finds a reprint from The Nation timely.

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