Through the IUSB Vision Blog come these videos from Dan Hannan MEP criticizing nationalized health care, the G-20 and stimulus bills agreed upon by it.
Also be sure to read his blogpost warning Americans not to copy the British health care system.
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Not that many numbers in that blogpost. A bit thin on the details. I’m sorry, but I want logos with my pathos. Ezra Klein provides a better balance in his column. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-klein7-2009apr07,0,3092824.story
As for the almost endless sums committed to stopping the current economic paroxysm, I still cannot really be approving or disapproving. The sceptic in me thinks it may be too much, but I don’t have anything to navigate by when it come to matters like that.
Hi Garland,
While a longer and more detailed article may be better for sociophiles like you and me that just love to gobble this stuff up, it is important to keep in mind why BLOGS are so popular as a growing source of news for consumers. The good blogs like Poligazette can give you a short, pretty solid analysis on most stories in just a few minutes. Blogs also serve the purpose for those who are not as learned as you and I to get some “milk” on important issues when the consumer is not ready for “meat”.
This is not to say that blogs don’t give deep and detailed substantive analysis when needed because I do and Michael certainly does when he feels it is necessary, but those posts tend to be read by people who live and breath that stuff and those posts are often skipped over by the consumers with just a short amount of time.
In my experience the posts that get the most hits are the short, accurate news and analysis. We can always link them to more substantive work.
One thing that I do as a blogger when I write a very large piece is that I will follow it up a day later with a shorter piece with accurate info but less detail.
This brings us to Dan Hannan, who I must say is rather gifted at taking a highly complex issue and explaining it in a minute while still delivering a great deal of information. Dan Hannan does what the Republican Party in the United States needs to learn how to do.