Comments on: Bizarro #1

By: Jim Woods

Jim Woods — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:15:23 +0000

Obama’s comments remind me of part of a speech made by Dr. Rene Favaloro, the Argentine who performed the first heart bypass operation.

Favaloro was very much an advocate of government financed health care so that the doctors were not corrupted by the chase for money.

Ironically, Favaloro committed suicide in part over financial problems at his clinic arising from government’s delinquency in paying the clinic’s claims.

jimwoods.thinkertothinker.com/2008/12/08/death-by-altruism/

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:09:22 +0000

Barack Obama is more a Julius Caesar lite than a passionate leftist. He wants two things: to have power and to be thought a great man.

If he lived a thousand years ago, he would affect the most sincere piety; if a thousand years before that, he would affect the strictest stoical virtues. That he is a leftist is an accident of the times.

By: Mike N

Mike N — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:33:10 +0000

“In their view, a doctor, or any corporation, is free to run roughshod over his customers forever with impunity, unless, of course, he is reigned in by the government. Does anyone know what the source of this view is?”

It’s the notion that self-interest, that is, selfishness, is evil and the only way an action can be virtuous is if it is totally disinterested and selfless. It is the view that private corporations and workers are selfish because they seek their own self-interest and in so doing ignore the welfare of others. But government officials are not self interested we are told. This lack of self-interest is what makes their actions moral. Man’s desire to be moral therefore compels him to seek selfless government jobs so he can impartially decide what is the good for everyone else and force it on society with a legislative gun.

I don’t know the historical beginning of these ideas but they were institutionalized by religion a long time ago. The clergy are not self-interested therefore they are moral. The masses are self-interested therefore are sinners. Immanuel Kant and his followers substituted society for god but the self-interest is evil dogma was left untouched.

Ayn Rand called altruism an inverted morality. It is completely backwards and that is why it has never achieved peace, happiness and love of mankind on earth, and never will.

By: BPG

BPG — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:47:42 +0000

In the leftist’s view of existence, a doctor’s reputation does not depend on his integrity. In their view, a doctor, or any corporation, is free to run roughshod over his customers forever with impunity, unless, of course, he is reigned in by the government. Does anyone know what the source of this view is?

By: Mike N

Mike N — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:26:26 +0000

“Isn’t that rather insulting? How does he get away with saying these things?” Because he considers everyone but himself selfish and greedy. Besides, he isn’t getting away with it with some people I do believe. I think those remarks have cost him some support among medical professionals. If I were a doctor I would be hot under the collar right now. Those kind of comments might be understanable coming from some uneducated Joe lunchbox. They are inexcusable coming from the president. It shows what an infantile mind he really has.

By: TW

TW — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:53:09 +0000

I wonder what doctors think about that statement of Obama’s. So he thinks doctors routinely perform unnecessary surgery on children out of greed? Isn’t that rather insulting? How does he get away with saying these things?

By: Bill Brown

Bill Brown — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:29:06 +0000

We really do need to get this child out of the White House next election.

Just a short (*sigh*) 3½ years away…

By: Bill Brown

Bill Brown — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:56:17 +0000

His choice for Surgeon General—a “good” kind of doctor who works in disaster-ravaged areas for minimal compensation—confirms this take on his world view. I always thought it was telling that when rattling off a laundry list of recommended occupations at various commencement addresses, you never hear any job that related to actual business.

By: Mike N

Mike N — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:36:45 +0000

Obama is admitting that he views other humans as essentially evil by nature, guilty of sacrificing others to themselves for profit (totally misunderstanding that this is not the way to make profits) and if we just force doctors to care for patients without concern for themselves, well what a wonderful world this would be. This of course is the maturity of a 6 or 7 year old child. But if he regards the men and women of medicine, one of the most demanding of professions requiring the highest level of integrity, in this contemptuous manner, what does that say about how he views the rest of the human race? With even more contempt obviously. We really do need to get this child out of the White House next election.

By: Grant

Grant — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:29:56 +0000

The President is a very superficial thinker, so it makes sense that this is his conclusion. The kind of thing he describes IS happening more and more in our economy. I’m not as familiar with health care as I am with other industries, but I wouldn’t be surprised.

Obama’s problem isn’t that he’s a deep-thinking leftist ideologue with diabolical fantasies, it’s that what little ideology he does have tells him that the government is always right and the individual is always wrong. This is what makes him incapable of seeing that the reason why there is so much short-term, make-a-buck-while-you-can behavior out there is because of all of the government nosiness that’s already gone on.

Many people have their backs against the wall, and if not, they can’t they predict what whim from Washington will put it there the day after tomorrow – so this is how they behave. Obama’s onto something, he’s just offering as a solution more of the same poison that caused the problem.