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"People Are Going To Start Dying" - Puerto Rico's Battered Hospitals On Verge Of Failure

"People Are Going To Start Dying" - Puerto Rico's Battered Hospitals On Verge Of Failure

A week after then-category 4 Hurricane Maria made landfall in densely populated eastern Puerto Rico, electricity remains offline across most of the island, while supplies of staples like gas, food and water are dwindling. Shelters on the island are reportedly running low on food, and the government managers of the emergency response effort are scrambling to evacuate 70,000 people from a river valley that’s in danger of being completely submerged after a nearby dam failed.

Guaranteed Income And Living Wage Schemes Cannot Possibly Work

Guaranteed Income And Living Wage Schemes Cannot Possibly Work

Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com,

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg Supports Universal Basic Income.

In its basic form, universal basic income means “everyone gets a paycheck, whether they have a job or not.”

Many expect even more. They want a guaranteed “living wage”.

Useless Trials

Such schemes cannot possibly work. But that does not stop fools from trying.

Even Bernie Sanders Thinks "Medicare For All" Would Bankrupt America

Even Bernie Sanders has acknowledged that the federal government couldn't afford to provide health care to all of its citizens.

In a video clip from 1987 that was discovered by the Washington Free Beacon, then-Burlington Mayor Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) admitted that “giving everybody a Medicaid card” would “bankrupt the nation.”

“You want to guarantee that all people have access to health care as you do in Canada," Sanders said.

 

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