Sunday, December 31, 2017

How Donald Trump's false statements are secretly brilliant

Donald Trump makes a lot of statements that are false. That gives him a great defense strategy. Imagine he is being investigated for wrong doing of some kind. If investigators find that he said something incriminating in private they would expect to use that to build a case. But instead Donald can just say look at how many public statements that I have made are false; that one you found is false as well. Given the track record that is a reasonable conclusion.

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Canada has longer wait times for health care is a bogus claim

The claim that Canada has longer wait times for health care versus the United States is bogus. They compare the wait times of people for procedures. So in Canada if Fred, Joe and Bob waited 6 months for an elective procedure in Canada but Phil, Alice and Jerry waited 2 months in America then Canada has longer wait times. They are neglecting to include people who don't even go for the procedure because they cannot afford it in America. Those people wait forever for the procedure. They are left out of the America health care system efficiency calculation so the comparison is not even valid.

That kind of comparison is like saying that Mike Tyson has a perfect win record as long as you ignore all his losses. Yeah no shit. The American health care system is faster as long as you ignore the people who can't use it at all. No shit. The comparison should be made accounting for people who cannot use the system at all. That would be a more accurate comparison.

Why power hungry people lead us

Power hungry people want power. They want to get power for themselves and use it. They form groups of like minded people. Imagine a non-power hungry person trying to lead. They give the power away because they don't want power they want to help people. By giving the power away they cannot compete with the people who keep the power. The people who keep the power for themselves use it against the people who give it away and win because the nice person who gives away the power cannot compete. We will always be lead by power hungry people who use the power to get more power.