Australia has a long and distinguished record of being a penal colony for the British, maybe it's time to reinstate that concept and ship RIAA and MPAA execs, all of Arthur Andersen, and all Fortune 500 CEOs to a remote part of the Aussie outback.
Why not, we've already got the concentration camps set up and manned by sadistic prison guards. Run by the experts too (US multinational...).
Sorry, I meant to say "processing centers for illegal immagrants", which are not like prisons (they're worse) and are definitely not concentration camps (because, um, the occupants kill themselves, that's it, we don't kill people in them).
No need to blackmail, the arse-licker in chief will no doubt pass federal legislation to honour the wishes of our closest friends and allies, that great nation that is the USA. After all, he's done it on the war on whoever it is this week, the US farm subsidies bill, Kyoto, the anti-torture bill, you name it.
Actually, they do measure doctors by magic numbers, and often managers too. Which is one of the problems... About the only peoplo who don't get measured by magic numbers seem to be the accountants, who get performance bonuses anyway.
Actually, the normal practice of the worse polluters is to use the abandonemnt legislation to their advantage in dealing with their property. They typically either build a shell company that owns the worst probelm, then declare it bankrupt; or develop some similar scheme that results in the problem reverting to public ownership. Look at the nuclear waste issue - how many of the nuke companies have maintained sufficient assets to dispose of their waste or plants at market prices?
That industry is IMO the best example of why liberharians are wrong. Sure, it happened in a non-perfect free market, and depends on a corrupt government for its existance, but it's as close to free market as it could be and still exist. And it doesn't work.
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Australia has a long and distinguished record of being a penal colony for the British, maybe it's time to reinstate that concept and ship RIAA and MPAA execs, all of Arthur Andersen, and all Fortune 500 CEOs to a remote part of the Aussie outback.
Why not, we've already got the concentration camps set up and manned by sadistic prison guards. Run by the experts too (US multinational...).
Sorry, I meant to say "processing centers for illegal immagrants", which are not like prisons (they're worse) and are definitely not concentration camps (because, um, the occupants kill themselves, that's it, we don't kill people in them).
No need to blackmail, the arse-licker in chief will no doubt pass federal legislation to honour the wishes of our closest friends and allies, that great nation that is the USA. After all, he's done it on the war on whoever it is this week, the US farm subsidies bill, Kyoto, the anti-torture bill, you name it.
Excuse me while I puke.
Actually, they do measure doctors by magic numbers, and often managers too. Which is one of the problems... About the only peoplo who don't get measured by magic numbers seem to be the accountants, who get performance bonuses anyway.
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Actually, the normal practice of the worse polluters is to use the abandonemnt legislation to their advantage in dealing with their property. They typically either build a shell company that owns the worst probelm, then declare it bankrupt; or develop some similar scheme that results in the problem reverting to public ownership. Look at the nuclear waste issue - how many of the nuke companies have maintained sufficient assets to dispose of their waste or plants at market prices?
That industry is IMO the best example of why liberharians are wrong. Sure, it happened in a non-perfect free market, and depends on a corrupt government for its existance, but it's as close to free market as it could be and still exist. And it doesn't work.