Steve Wynn

Steve Wynn, entrepreneur, speaks out on the subject of politics  in this television interview in Nevada where his company is located.




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Phony-in-chief

Thomas Sowell dispenses with Barak Obama, once in for all in this column..  Sowell is a well-known, highly respected economist/historian, author of over twenty scholarly books, who happens to be black.  He was born in the Jim Crow South over 80 years ago, and left for New York (Harlem) as a teenager.  He was introduced to the New York Public Library and began a learning journey that took him to several of the most prestigious universities in the country as both a student and tenured professor.  Thomas Sowell knows whereof he speaks.  He has been onto Barak Obama from the very beginning, much as many others, as an outright fraud who would do this country no good.  He, and all the others who were never fooled, have been proven right over the last four years, much to the misfortune of our country.  Last week's debate between Obama and Mitt Romney caused  the scales to fall from the eyes of many former supporters of Obama who began to see him as the empty suit he is in fact.  Obama and his enablers in the Congress and in the media have cost us four years of recovery time from the financial meltdown resulting from housing policies put in place by Carter, put on steroids by Clinton, and encouraged and enabled all along by the Black Congressional Caucus(BCC) which included Barak Obama among its members.  Thanks to Obama all these wrong-headed enablers it will take this country much longer to dig out from the wreckage of all their failed policies than would be the case had they not pulled then wool over the eyes of 53% of the American voters in 2007.  Should the incumbents win again next month, there's no telling what will happen to this country in the coming years, but whatever happens will not be pretty.

The horror of socialized medicine

Those who may wonder what socialized medicine in the U.S. would look like would do well to study the NHS in Merry Old England. What follows hospital to  here is a story that has been repeated many times in GB pointing to the lack of incentives and more importantly competition in the healthcare delivery system in that country.  Should this disgraceful care be delivered in a free enterprise driven private hospital in this country the law suits would fly, the hospital's reputation would plummet and doctors would never recommend that hospital to their patients. Competition keeps companies, hospitals and individuals on their toes, the reality that escapes socialized anything crusaders.  As reported on Powerline Blog:

Recent investigations have revealed hospitals administered by Britain’s National Health Service to be veritable houses of horrors. Here is the latest shock headline: Patients starve and die of thirst on hospital wards. Hospital conditions under socialized medicine appear to be trending toward the medieval:

Forty-three hospital patients starved to death last year and 111 died of thirst while being treated on wards, new figures disclose today.

The death toll was disclosed by the Government amid mounting concern over the dignity of patients on NHS wards.

The Office for National Statistics figures also showed that:

* as well as 43 people who starved to death, 287 people were recorded by doctors as being malnourished when they died in hospitals;
* there were 558 cases where doctors recorded that a patient had died in a state of severe dehydration in hospitals….

The records, from the Office for National Statistics, follow a series of scandals of care of the elderly, with doctors forced to prescribe patients with drinking water or put them on drips to make sure they do not become severely dehydrated.

Katherine Murphy, chief executive of the Patients Association, said the statistics were a grim and shaming reflection of 21st century Britain. …

In many wards nurses were dumping meal trays in front of patients too weak to feed themselves and then taking them away again untouched.

Many of those who starve or die of thirst are elderly, but by no means all:

In July, an inquest heard that a young man who died of dehydration at a leading hospital rang 999 for police because he was so thirsty. Officers arrived at Kane Gorny’s bedside, but were told by nurses that he was in a confused state and were sent away.

The footballer and runner, 22, died of dehydration a few hours later, an inquest heard in July.

…[H]e was in hospital for a routine hip replacement. Doctors had warned that, without regular medication to control his fluid levels, he would die. But when he was admitted to St George’s Hospital in Tooting, South London, staff ignored repeated reminders from Mr Gorny and his family to give him the tablets, and he became severely dehydrated after being refused water.

His mother told the inquest that in May 2009 she received a distressed phone call from her son, in which he said he had called the police because he was so desperate for a drink.

Shortly before he died, his mother found him delirious and saw that his medication was untouched. … He died of water deficit and hypernatraemia, a medical term for dehydration, three days after he was admitted to hospital.