Let me try it: WTF.

I’m not sure why the spam filter is so very sensitive and touchy, but welcome!

TRUMP PAID HIGHER TAX RATE [25%]
THAN MSNBC COMCAST [24%]…
MUCH HIGHER THAN OBAMA [19%]…
AND BERNIE [13%]!

Pilot shortage coming? Yep. The airlines are going to have to start their own training academies or salaries for the regionals will have to go up.

I’ve lost track of how many “pilot shortage” articles I’ve read over the years.

LOL.

G.B.

The Brain Drain is tapping the TOP of the talent & ethics distribution in those blighted lands.

The cultural impact of their absence leads to all the ills you’ve posted of.

India, in particular, is way short of top tier talent — which has flown off to California. This trend has reached absurd levels — to be witnessed every time I shop.

A scheme ( H1-b) that benefits them and their employer (Intel) is a disaster for their countrymen.

http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/sft2.htm

LaGriffe spells out the connection between a nation’s IQ distribution and economic ( and cultural ) out comes. It’s astonishingly strong.

The price is not the issue. Quality is. That’s what happens when the competitors all go for the lowest common denominator.

“And we never ran out of pilots, either.”
We are now. See:
http://aviationweek.com/commercial-aviation/coming-us-pilot-shortage-real

The U.S. airlines piggy backed off the military for their trained pilots. Now those days are gone. Airline pilot salaries are going to go up or the airlines are going to shrink.

There is no solution to health care prices (which are what are driving health insurance prices.) that can work overnight. Obamacare must go. The transition period will be one in which some of the 22 million who have insurance under Obamacare will either not buy insurance (fools!) or will not be able to afford insurance. It might be as high as 11 billion. The CBO says 14 billion. Providing care for the next few years could become a charitable program spearheaded by donations from billionaires. major foundations, and citizens who want to help their fellow citizens. Billions are donated each year to non-profits that do not measurably affect people’s well being. Providing money for charitable healthcare could be done on a state by state wide basis. Or even a county by county basis – although some money would have to be moved from high income counties to low income counties. The closer to the people the programs are the better. That’s what is wrong with Obamacare. Too far from the users.

The eventual goals that would reduce both healthcare and health insurance costs – insurance sales across state lines, tort reform, attacking cost shifting by hospitals, providing low cost basic healthcare in big box stores, promoting specialty clinics that provide high efficiency surgical procedures at fixed and transparent prices, and other such things – should be accomplished through regulation changes and legislation in the near future.

Not going to happen though. IMO, Obamacare will not be repealed. It will collapse and a all 22 million people will be left high and dry. One of those people is my daughter who has paid through the nose for less choice, and higher deductibles/copays. 🙁

This Brain Drain is the PRIMARY reason the 3rd World stays in poverty.”

It is certainly a negative but it is far from “the PRIMARY reason the 3rd World stays in poverty.”

Poverty is the result of cultural negatives.

Any society that operates according to the consent of the governed and the rule of law, while also strongly encouraging education, a strong work ethic, the acceptance of personal responsibility and accountability, acceptance of familial obligations and preaches the value of delayed gratification will experience socio-economic success with low levels of poverty.

Walter Williams roadmap out of poverty; “Complete high school; get a job, any kind of job, get married before having children,; and be a law abiding citizen. Among both black and white Americans so described, the poverty rate is in single digits.”

The problem is fundamental and simple: Costs.

Nothing in the ACA addressed cost control.

America needs to graduate more doctors — not import 70% of the MD talent.

America needs to graduate more nurses, too.

Importing such massive doses of medical talent from the 3rd World prevents those nations from making normal progress.

This Brain Drain is the PRIMARY reason the 3rd World stays in poverty.

It’s notable that Red China did not permit mass departures among its medical professionals. This policy was one of the policy planks that hugely contributed to Red China’s rise out of extreme poverty. It’s still a pretty poor nation, BTW.

America needs to use the Sherman anti-trust act to bust up the cartels that dominate this sector of the economy.

Under the ABC, the airlines were cartelized until the Carter administration. When their Federal protection evaporated, prices collapsed — 20% then 30% then 50% then 70%. This reversal of trend took years to play out. Today, no-one much complains about the price of an airline ticket. And we never ran out of pilots, either.

Busting the medical-pharma-administration complex would trigger the same chronic price declines.

Virtually everyone is discussing the deck chairs on this economic Titanic.

If the actual cost of medical care collapsed 70% — the economy would grow by leaps and bounds.

The same cartel-economics is ruining education, too. ( K-12 & college) We end up with “rubber rooms” and a collapse in quality… and explosion in ‘administrators.’

No. It would be nice to see the Republicans drive a spike through the heart of ObamaCare and its left-fascist social insurance lay-off predicate once and for all.

As one might say to the face of an ObamaCare supporter: My freedom is more important than your “health care”.