THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume XIV, Issue # 72, April 9, 2012
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
DARWIN VERSUS FREE MARKETS
By Dennis T. Avery
PRESIDENT OBAMA, OBAMACARE, & DARWINIAN "SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST": PEACEFUL COMPETITION IN FREE MARKETS AS THE ALTERNATIVE TO
DARWINISM -- DARWIN'S "SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST" CANNOT CRUSH THE WEAKEST WHEN PEACEFUL PRODUCTIVITY & FREEDOM CHOICE BECOME THE
DOMINANT FORCES IN HUMAN SOCIETY.
FULL STORY:
U.S. President Barack Obama says the Republicans want to throw everyone under the wheels of a Darwinian “survival of the fittest” machine. He says the
dog-eat-dog of the free market will be bad for blacks, Latinos, women, and the handicapped.
He’s got it exactly backward. Peaceful competition in free markets is the alternative to Darwinism! Charles Robert Darwin believed in “superior species”
winning out by crushing the “weakest.” But human behavior changes much faster than evolution. Free markets, especially, empower everyone to use their
special talents, time, and abilities to the fullest. Then everybody prospers — not just special segments of the population.
The hunter-gatherers were the quickest, strongest humans Nature ever bred. The farmers who have followed them have been about ten percent smaller — with
smaller brains. But the farmers could produce many times more food per acre, enough to feed larger populations — and thus put more spears and swords into
the battle line. Today, our farmers supply ample food for the cities that produce most of our wondrous technology.
We now have rewarding, lucrative roles for NFL defensive linemen, but also important roles for good fathers who earn money for their families’ food and
education. We have economic roles for the women who choose to work outside the home, many doing jobs that might once have required male muscle but
today utilize women’s quick wits. Computer geeks like Bill Gates can become billionaires, and geniuses with funny hair (like Einstein) can gain prestige and
honor at our universities.
Our biggest military problem today is the jealousy of the Muslim world, which sees the wealthy West on TV, and wants what we have. They don’t understand
why their religious zeal hasn’t produced the wealth that Muslim invasions once won at sword’s point. We see that there isn’t much economic growth in
countries that suppress and intimidate fifty percent of their adult population.
Closer to home, Obamacare’s new command-and-control system is guaranteed to produce severe health care rationing, as it already has in Britain and Canada.
The rationing will be done by 15 appointed “wise men” who’ll decide who should be written off. We urgently need a different solution. Virtually all of the
burgeoning U.S. national debt is due to the open-ended health care promises — and the huge number of retiring Baby Boomers will collapse the current system
if it isn’t fixed. Our entitlements will go from 10 percent of the economy to 20 percent within the next 40 years!
There are far more caring alternatives to Obamacare’s health care rationing. One would make Medicare more like Social Security. If the $574 billion currently paid
by Medicare was divided among the enrollees it would come to $11,700 per recipient, and more if they were sick or disabled. Today, 30 percent of the money is
wasted on coverage the enrollees wouldn’t buy for themselves. Subsidize insurance for the poor, too, so they get physicians’ care instead of ultra-expensive
Emergency Rooms.
Let doctors compete in a free market, choosing their specialties, with fees set by competition. Let creative pay-as-you-go doctor-based plans flourish in
shopping centers and private offices. Continue and foster the increased use of Nurse Practitioners for our minor ailments. Let the health industry creatively
expand to provide medical care for the 16 million additional people to be included. Encourage research, not insurmountable barriers to finding new drugs and
new treatments. It now costs nearly one billion dollars to bring a new drug to market, and that doesn’t include the costs of the failed experiments.
Darwin’s “survival of the fittest” can’t crush the weakest when peaceful productivity and freedom of choice become the dominant forces in human society.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
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The Earth's Natural History, Global Climate Changes,
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Political Environmentalism Versus Human Progress & Prosperity:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
Political Economy -- Philosophies, Systems, & Public Policies:
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
Dennis T. Avery, a senior fellow for the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., is an environmental economist. He was formerly a senior analyst for the U.S.
Department of State. He is co-author, with S. Fred Singer, of Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Years. Readers may write to him at P.O. Box 202,
Churchville, VA 2442; send email to cgfi@hughes.net; or visit our Internet website at www. cgfi.org
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