Saturday - March 05, 2011
3 From the K
3 links from Rich K.
From a week or so ago, a story I almost ran with. The Swiss, faced with their own hoplophobes, held a vote on gun control. Because everyone in Switzerland does a hitch in the army when they graduate high school, right, and then has an army rifle in the closet ready to go, for the rest of their lives.
To my total non-surprise, the gun control pussies lost. Here’s a nice story about it. It’s translated, so there are a couple of word errors, but it points out that an unarmed population is a subject population. Too bad it doesn’t have more on that lovely straight pull K-31, although the pre-war ones with the forged receivers are a bit better made.
10 things to know about Obama and gas prices. The 11th thing is that this is exactly what he wanted, and all is going according to plan. Meanwhile, my local gas station raised the price 42¢ over the past 2 weeks.
Hey Peiper, next time you’re feeling sick run up to Scotland - free prescriptions for everybody!
While the English are tightening their belts in the wake of the credit crunch, Scotland will spend millions of pounds to abolish prescription charges.
It is the latest example of ‘medical apartheid’, where the devolved nations enjoy better health services despite paying far less tax per head.
Scots also get free personal care in old age, while their students pay no tuition fees – unlike those born in England.
The latest move means English patients will be forced to pay prescription charges – currently £7.20 per item – while effectively subsidising free drugs for those elsewhere in the UK.
Prescriptions are already free in Wales and Northern Ireland. Labour had planned to offer all patients with long-term conditions free prescriptions, but the Coalition scrapped this on taking office, citing a lack of money.
Now, how do they do that and not go bankrupt? Free drugs, free schooling, free medical care. Maybe it’s cause they don’t pay to pave the roads or have indoor plumbing? Nah, couldn’t be. No military? Maybe. Or maybe it’s because Wales, Scotland, and Northern Island are all smaller than New Jersey with teensy tiny populations? It’s not like Wales has 310,000,000 citizens and is 3200 miles wide and 1500 miles tall. They have what, one Tesco’s, and it only has to be open Wednesday to Friday?
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