The Victory of Thalidomide Keynesianism - Update 1
Posted by Ivo Cerckel on November 15th, 2009
Update 1 adds the comparison to the London banksters
The British guv’mint, which needed thalidomide to justify the NHS and the rest of its welfare state, will print money to assist thalidomide-victims. Fool circle.
The whistle on thalidomide was blown at a Düsseldorf congress of neurologists on 30 April - 01 May 1960 by neurologist Dr Ralf Voss.
Guv’mint let it be marketed until 27 November 1961, that’s eighteen months later.
http://www.wdr.de/themen/gesundheit/pharmazie/contergan/chronik.jhtml?rubrikenstyle=contergan
From The Sunday Times
November 14, 2009
An end to the terrible saga of thalidomide
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article6917231.ece
SNIPS
The government appears ready to accept its responsibilities at last. Ministers are proposing a settlement worth several million pounds to compensate the remaining thalidomide victims in Britain, who number about 460
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Words, of course, are cheap. What will concern the thalidomiders is whether the additional money is genuinely new and not merely diverted from other budgets. What will concern them most, as they head towards old age, is whether it will be enough.
UNSNIP
Guv’mint is utterly unable to do anything and it will print “genuinely new” money into existence (yes, that the bureaucrats can do) and give that to the thalidomiders.
This means debasing money and thus taxing the sheeple who have money.
May I remember my dear readers that the difference between tax and theft is that the thief does not come back periodically nor does the thief pretend to be stealing in the public interest?
How dare thalidomiders accept such “money”?
Guv’mint, all its bureaucrats and other recipients of “its” “money” should leave the British and Irish isles and then let the market solve the thalidomiders’ problems.
But, at the end of the terrible thalidomide saga … we’re all Keynesians now,.
Are some British thalidomiders as bad as the London banksters who accept Gordon Brown’s, Alistair Darling’s, and Mervyn King’s quantitative-easing money?
The UK guv’mint must leave the British and Irish isles.
From The Sunday Times
November 15, 2009
Thalidomide drug scandal is story of pain and official (Ivo: i.e, guv’mint) neglect
Daniel Foggo
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article6917308.ece
Ivo Cerckel
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