Greetings from Down Under! I am sitting here having just finished a hot bowl of Japanese noodles for breakfast and having a kick ass cup of coffee and thought I’d write something about this amazing place I am leaving in a few hours.
I’ve been in Australia and New Zealand since September 18 and have to say this has been the best trip of my life. The people have been the highlighted experience here without question. I had always wanted to visit Australia and it was wonderful. Again,
great people there as well and Melbourne is a beautiful city with fantastic culture and energy.
However, New Zealand has been the real thrill for me for the last 4 days. I spent Friday Saturday and Sunday at the Erotica Expo Auckland which was a great time and met so many great people. I was here for the show on behalf of Clips4sale.com.
I came a week early to spend a few days in NZ then fly to Melbourne for the 4 days leading up to the show and then to return
here to NZ for a day before the expo began. I can say that I was sorry to head to Melbourne and leave the promise of this wonderful place. I was in love the minute I opened the window as we flew over Christchurch on our decent into Auckland. Amazing countryside and snow capped mountains with the bluest sea all around. I was awestruck before my feet even touched the ground!
The land of the Kiwi is one of the most diverse cultural mecca’s I’ve ever been in. Every Asian country is represented in large
numbers and Indian and Malaysian as well as the Pacific Islanders who are mountain-sized people with great spirit and so much history and culture and personality. The native people here are Maoris and I had some fun with a hot little Maori girl at the show! 🙂
The food was fantastic and every night you could have cuisine from a different continent that was comparable to the home country! I had the best Indian food of my life and was told by more than 1 Indian person here that the food in Auckland is as good if not better than most food in India! Same goes for Thai. One great treat was a dinner at Annabelle’s right on the water of rack of lamb and New Zealand Mussels. Everything here is fresh and there are very strict regulations on food preparation so all the ingredients are local and prepared in very clean conditions.
When I travel I love to shop like all women, and this place was no disappointment! Newmarket and Queen Street in Auckland and Pinsonby were all fabulous and again the people were just amazing. I think that the accent here is so fucking sexy I wanted to just make out with everyone I spoke to! I had some fun times trying on clothes with a few of the girls at Supre and had my tits groped and fondled by Jaelah and Denny until I thought we were going to fuck right there. First time silicone experiences 🙂 The voltage burned out my magic wand the first night there so I spent my first day in Melbourne searching for another without luck 🙁 I had to buy a pocket rocket to get me through until the show which luckily had a booth with every toy imaginable.
So in summation I can say this to all the girls who go to the shows in the US without considering going to an international show
that you’re fucking crazy lol To me the US shows are all the same and the only reason most of the girls go is to be gawked at and get attention and run around like idiots without getting any real business accomplished or they just go because someone else is paying for a trip they cannot afford themselves.
Earnest Hemingway once said, "If you live by narrow boundaries you will live a narrow life, and at the end of it all that would be
quite the shame in my humble opinion." I agree completely. Life is to be lived and I would say to spare no expense and take every chance that comes up to fulfill those dreams and goals you once had. I wasn’t sure if I would ever visit this part of the world due to the length of the flight, but it would be worth it if the flying time were doubled. I take my hat off to Brooke Haven and the other girls who chose to come all the way here rather than attend the other US shows that were going on at the same time. That to me shows more than just going where the money takes you, it shows an adventurous spirit and an open mind to more than just being an attention whore at a porn convention.
I never would have believed how many New Zealander’s were fans! I had hundreds of people say they couldn’t believe I was here and that they were fans. The WWW is an amazing thing is it not?
I gotta wrap it up as my ride to the airport will be here in a few minutes and of course I haven’t finished packing 🙂 I am headed to Nasouri airport and on to the island of Taveuni in Fiji until Thursday to relax before i head back home. I am going to be hitting it hard when I get back with shoots and new stuff for my sites and another trip to LA at the end of October and to New York
to be on Howard Stern for a featured interview so a few days of rest and relaxation is in order for sure.
Good bye New Zealand 🙁
new zealand – poor man’s tasmania
Australia & New Zealand seem like good places to live. Especially, since they both have universal health care. Plus, they’re both members of the British Commonwealth of Nations AKA the Commonwealth.
Enjoy Mariah! ;)New Zealanders have a great taste for porn, They love you 😉
poor man’s tasmania? how do you figure? there is always someone who just needs to be a dick lol
I’m headed home tomorrow and have to say I wish I could stay here forever. There was a Tsunami in Samoa yesterday which isnt very far from where i am right now! the waves were bigger last night but not anything crazy and the weather has been great so hopefully it won’t reach Fiji!!!!! That would suck wouldnt it? 🙂
Yeah New Zealand has some stupid laws regaring porn yet prostitution is legal??? And their socialized medical sucks. To get the free care you have to go to a government clinic and wait 6 or 7 hours to be seen. Most people pay to go to private clinics so for the most part it is just another tax for something that isnt being used by the ones who actually pay for it. Great place though, that’s for certain.
I hope everyone is having a great week!
xoxo
Mariah
“Yeah New Zealand has some stupid laws regaring porn yet prostitution is legal??? ”
And elightened law, Porn Wankers 0, Whoremongers 1.
Saldy for those who are both, the glass is half empty.
“And their socialized medical sucks. To get the free care you have to go to a government clinic and wait 6 or 7 hours to be seen. Most people pay to go to private clinics so for the most part it is just another tax for something that isnt being used by the ones who actually pay for it.”
Dead on Mariah, that is something the Obamaistas do not seen to get. I guess the grass is always greer in the other side of the river.
“I’m headed home tomorrow and have to say I wish I could stay here forever.”
You can emigrate there! As a American I guess you have no trouble. Saldy porn will not be in the books.
But those PW who are mostly escort should think about that.
Plus, the Haka and the All Blacks are way cool.
Mariah Milano & Harvey Dent AKA Rics,
At least some of us “Obamaistas”-socialized medicine advocates are willing to wait 6 or 7 hours to be seen. It’s better than America’s healthcare to the highest bidder, profit before patient & will have to declare personal bankruptcy to pay for it system. Especially, when it comes to surgery & prescription drugs.
hey Harvey 🙂 thanks! Actually it is extremely difficult to get a Visa for New Zealand. They are stingy and rightly so! You must be political refuge or from Britain to have a shot and I’m not either, but give Obama another couple years and there’ll be lots of us jumping ship! 🙂
Here’s the porn video law:
for them to import a porn dvd or vhs they must first place their order for 1 sample of each they wish to import and give that sample to a government official to view along with $1000 non-refundable per DVD. (per title not per copy) if the government official doesn’t find it obscene or offensive then you may place an order for that title. So to make their money back on each title after the shipping and the $1000 review fee they have to either order a lot of copies or hike the price way up. since New Zealand is only 1/3 the population of LA it is safe to say that the chances of selling 2000 copies of “Hitter in the shitter” or whatever is gonna be pretty fucking tough. I checked out K’ rd which is the red light district in Auckland and it’s only about 3 blocks long and there are only 5 or 6 adult video / book stores so it isnt like Times Square once was or anything.
They have it tough and the laws for producing and distributing in NZ are crazy as well. Same goes for Australia. Only in Canberra (the capital of the country) are you allowed to sell porn! In some areas you aren’t even allowed to posses it in your home! So the rules there are outrageous as well!
But the show was awesome and they allow nudity during their conventions which the states won’t allow, not even Vegas. Hell Vegas won’t even allow simulated touching without touching!!
I bought my friends baby an All Black outfit that is adorable! 🙂
the problem Real Luke Ford Fan is that it’s rationed care. Why should the government be allowed to decide if you are treated or not? Did you know that the Canadian medical system is bankrupt and they are no longer paying for C Section births even if it is critical to the health of the mother? There are 6 to 8 month waits for MRI’s and they are rejecting the newest cancer drugs because of cost!!! You want that on your side? You want THAT to become of your paycheck? In France they pay over 60% of their income in taxes and property taxes are fucking outrageous to pay for rationed care? Don’t believe Michael Moore although Sicko was a very good documentary and provoked thought for sure.
Would you be willing to wait for 6 hours only to be told that you would have to wait for another 6 months? Or to come back in 4 days for x rays to see if an arm or leg is broken? Or that your needs are not covered under the public plan and would have to be approved by a bureaucrat? I doubt it.
its the same as those who are against the death penalty until their 1o year old daughter is savagely raped and beaten to death. then the tables turn and that soft liberal heart is like a 5 week old puppy. Their eyes open!
US prescription drug laws are ‘the problem’. People who suffer chronic pain can’t order codeine from overseas and have to see a doctor to get it. What if they don’t have insurance? They just suffer. Same with meds for anxiety and insomnia, you can’t order meds from abroad that help. The whole system is broken.
Those against reforming the US Healthcare System can’t see the forest for the trees; as care is already being rationed…by the insurance companies, not to mention, an employee-based system (as good luck getting covered if you get a disease and change jobs). Likewise, insurers can drop you claiming you have a pre-existing condition, they refuse to cover (so again, we’re back to rationing by the insurer).
If you have an expensive plan (paid for either by yourself, or an employer), you can get most any treatment available. If you don’t have as comprehensive a plan, or you don’t have any healthcare, you’re up shit creek without a paddle. Yes, you won’t go ‘untreated’ in an emergency at a hospital — yet who is going to pay for your expensive treatment? You along with every single taxpayer..eventually leaving both nearly bankrupt.
If one can’t see that, they’re blind, deaf and dumb (or are just innately selfish and wouldn’t want to pay taxes for much of anything except the military).
The US has practices limiting the amount of available doctors medical schools graduate, huge liability cost and yes, the FDA with the excuse of protecting the public limits the avaliable offer of medicines in the US.
That should be fixed. And eventualt Premier Obama will get a reality check and realize that smaller solutions are better solutions instead of the Messianic Transformative agende he had.
And public medicine, not public health issurance, shall be available for those who cannot afford life saving health care.
But the problem with the huge public run systems Michael Moore and the Obamaistas seen to love are.
1. They actually discourage people from becoming doctor. Too long a career, to emotionaly involving, for lower profits.
2. Medicine rationing.
3. Lower quality care.
MMoore who seems to love France, forgot to tell how France youth, stiffled by the lower entepreneurship caused by high taxes, emigrates abroad, London is in fact one of the biggest French cities.
That French economy is not really dynamic, cannot integrate her inmigrants or keep her youth employed, and basically lives of Germany.
Same for M Moore and Oliver Stones love for Cuba.
The Cuban health system is based on fake statistics since the real ones cannot be checked in a independent way.
The only reason that Obama took on health care in the first place was because the manufacturing industry is suffering from a costly an bad privatized health care system and enormous privlages granted, by law to pharmisutical industries. When a large sector of concentrated capital favors a program it becomes “politically possible” and has “political suport” and the same stands true for domestic and international issues as well. By Noam Chomsky…
I agree our health care system is fucked. No question. However the proposal on the table will never work. First of all they will fine any employer who doesn’t provide health care to their employees 8% of their total payroll. Well guess what? That employer will say “Fuck yeah!” and gladly pay the 8% fine and the employees will be thrown into the public system where they will be rationed and denied and wait and wait.
The other thing that is crazy is that there are millions of young adults who refuse health care when offered to them. They feel they don’t need it and don’t want to pay for it. So will they be penalized for not wanting to pay for health care or will their employers? Either way it should be up to the individual. this isn’t Russia is it? I thought the Government didn’t have the right to enforce such things on citizens?? Oh they’ll just assign another Czar to head that up without any public transparency. That’s an entire other lie from Mr Obama’s campaign. He is more secretive and dismissive of questions than George W and Cheney combined and that’s saying something.
We need to get rid of the health insurance companies. They are a criminal enterprise IMO and have run our system into the ground. the other thing we need to shut down are the law suits. If we were to eliminate the frivolous law suits and make anyone filing pay all fees if they lose we would offset billions of dollars in health insurance for doctors. I read on the plane yesterday that in Utah a doctor was on a vacation with his family and came across a situation at a rest stop where a man was having a heart attack and he didn’t assist him because another doctor in his practice had been sued for malpractice and he didnt want the same to happen to him. the person ended up dying because of a doctors fear of being sued if he didnt save the man. Now tell me that isn’t fucked up? the Dems LOVE the trial lawyers and they are a huge problem in the legal and health care system. Just think, John Edwards was a bright star on the horizon for the Dems…he was a personal injury attorney, an ambulance chaser for Christ’s sake! Can you imagine what would have happened if he had become president? Well thank god that won’t happen especially with his sex tape about to go public.
If I am really proud of something in my country is because we have free medical assistance for every people who needs it. You don’t need to pay to another private health company for it, you can do it if only you need special services. I will never understand why a big country like the USA has this lack of help for their citizens 🙁 Maybe we are not the most powerful country in the world but we try to care about our people as much we can. Obama should be to think in fix this problem soon 😉
The problem is that he can’t fix it. He won’t fix it. No one will because these politicians are so entrenched with the drug and health care companies that they wouldnt be able to run 700 million dollar campaigns without them. Hillary was the largest recipient of Drug company and Insurance company campaign donations of all the candidates. Obama was second. How can they suddenly turn on them and say sorry, you’re outta business.
The only way we can fix it is by voting or not showing up to vote. Imagine the message it would send if suddenly 100 million people just didn’t show up for the next Presidential election? That would send a real message and that would demand change. But alas, it’ll never happen.
Mariah Milano says:
“the problem Real Luke Ford Fan is that it’s rationed care.”
-As sammyglick has already pointed out, we already live under a rationed system. Try getting health care from your HMO when you have a chronic disease that requires constant care. You WILL get denied for something. Not to mention the 5 million Americans who are “uninsurable” due to having a pre-existing condition….
“Did you know that the Canadian medical system is bankrupt and they are no longer paying for C Section births even if it is critical to the health of the mother?”
-This is not true. Wait times in Canada are only applicable in non-urgent scenarios. True there are INDIVIDUAL horror stories regarding wait times, but they should be subject to scrutiny and interpreted against the fact that the majority of Canadians are satisfied with the care they receive. Plus, in Canada, more citizens receive care, the infant mortality rate is lower than it is in the US and life expectancy rate is higher. As for the bankruptcy comment, the Canadian system accounts for less of GDP (10.1%) than in the US (16%) and they spend less government revenue on healthcare than we do (16.7% vs 18.5%). And besides, the legislation that are being proposed in Congress look nothing like the Canadian system.
“There are 6 to 8 month waits for MRI’s and they are rejecting the newest cancer drugs because of cost!!!”
– Again, non-urgent MRIs and you better believe we’ll be leaving prescription drugs alone in the US. But, I’m curious to know, what drugs are you talking about? Are those drugs proven to be effective?
“In France they pay over 60% of their income in taxes and property taxes are fucking outrageous to pay for rationed care?”
-The French do not pay 60% of their income or property or both combined in taxes. Its a progressive system the highest income tax rate is at 40%. The typical tax burden (including all taxes on salary) is 15.1% according to the OECD (which could be verified by going to their website and looking up their publication titled “Taxing Wages” and looking at Tables I.4-I.7.) Again, the bottom line is, there is no legislation in Congress that would make us “become” France.
Harvey says:
“The US has practices limiting the amount of available doctors medical schools graduate, huge liability cost and yes, the FDA with the excuse of protecting the public limits the available offer of medicines in the US.”
-As far as limiting the amount of doctors, talk to the AMA about that. Plus, the limited supply of doctors, especially primary care doctors, has more to do with skyrcketing costs of higher education. Harvey, are you ACTUALLY saying that the FDA needs less regulation? You ever hear of Vioxx? You like peanut butter?
I would agree however, that malpractice torts need some statutory limits because the malpractice insurance premiums are killing health providers.
Mariah says:
First of all they will fine any employer who doesn’t provide health care to their employees 8% of their total payroll. Well guess what? That employer will say “Fuck yeah!” and gladly pay the 8% fine and the employees will be thrown into the public system where they will be rationed and denied and wait and wait.
-Okay. So the bill is not finalized but so far only employers with a payroll in excess of 500,000 would be required to provide care and the government would match their contributions so why wouldn’t they pay?
“They feel they don’t need it and don’t want to pay for it. So will they be penalized for not wanting to pay for health care or will their employers? Either way it should be up to the individual. this isn’t Russia is it?”
-If you don’t have insurance and you get hurt and have to go to the hospital, I, as a taxpayer, have to pay part of YOUR bill. The bottom line is that you CANNOT reasonably predict when you are gonna need health services. You could get in a car accident as soon as you leave your house. Mandating that everyone gets insurance creates a system which spreads the risk burden making sure that costs do not rise and no person is paying more than their fair share. As far as the Russia comment goes, don’t all states mandate car insurance? Same system.
“We need to get rid of the health insurance companies.”
-So, who’s gonna manage care? The government?
“He is more secretive and dismissive of questions than George W and Cheney combined and that’s saying something.”
-Oh, really? Seriously, you are comparing abuses of the National Security Letter, the political firing of US attorneys, the subversive legal memos of the Office of Legal Counsel used to defend torture, the imprudent intelligence gathered prior to the Iraq War invasion to…. what? What has Obama done to show he is out to subvert the Constitution?
Come on, a fine chick like you should know better.
Mariah Milano “That’s an entire other lie from Mr Obama’s campaign. He is more secretive and dismissive of questions than George W and Cheney combined and that’s saying something.”
Please…you can say a lot of things about Obama, but being a secretive politician who refuses to answer questions by the press is just false. He’s had more sitdown interviews at this point in his presidency than Bush and Clinton combined (at last count, it’s about 114). Likewise, he’s had more formal press conferences than either Bush or Clinton thus far in his presidency (I believe it’s 6 compared to three/four for his predecessors)
Mariah Milano “The only way we can fix it is by voting or not showing up to vote. Imagine the message it would send if suddenly 100 million people just didn’t show up for the next Presidential election? That would send a real message and that would demand change.”
That has to be the single dumbest thing I’ve heard out of anyone’s mouth online. You’re saying, asking in fact, for as SMALL a segment as possible of the American population to make decisions on who our representative leaders will be. You wishing that…oh for the sake of argument, the small but vocal segment of the population who disrupted Town Hall meetings, or protest the G-20, or donate to Moveon or watch Rachael Maddow to decide what the REST of us want our nation to do?
We already live in a nation that is supposed to be the Gold Standard when it comes to Democracy…yet barely half of the eligible population actually vote in a general election. Over 300 million people live in America, and yet it’s ‘news’ when you can get close to/slightly over 100 million to actually go and vote for President (which has happened the last two general elections).
The 2008 general election had the highest turnout in 40 years. The percentage of eligible voters who went to the polls, was approximately 60%.
That’s disgraceful for a nation that constantly tells the rest of the world to act like us (and when they don’t, we undermine their government). As a way of comparison, Luxembourg has close to 90% turnout. Even New Zealand does better than the US at 79% turnout.
The only message a massive number of Americans not voting would send, is that the political fringes have finally taken over and politicians can now drop all pretense of being ‘for the people’ and instead, be totally beholden to tiny special interest groups.
“And their socialized medical sucks. To get the free care you have to go to a government clinic and wait 6 or 7 hours to be seen.”
As opposed to Americans, who often wait for hours in the emergency room(I have), then get charged $1,000 for that visit and then can’t afford to EVER go to a doctor, often until it’s too late.
Waiting a few hours or days or weeks to see a doctor>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Waiting until you’re on your deathbed, because you have no insurance and no way to pay.
President4Life…you forgot to add, that when that person goes to the ER and ends up with a $1000 bill they can’t pay, guess who does cover it? You and me and every other taxpayer who has medical insurance.
When they can’t pay, our premiums go up, because naturally, the hospital has to write off that bill, or go to lengths to collect it (at a fraction, again charging off some portion of it). Thusly, it would have been better for ALL OF US for that same person to have had the chance to get their own health insurance at a decent cost so they’d be able to pay their bills.
The Republicans and others who don’t believe in a rational healthcare system, would rather make up phony lies about death panels and immigrants getting free health care (as in their world, THEY are somehow the root of all that is wrong with America…ironic, considering this nation was CREATED BY IMMIGRANTS – but then, irony is never lost on a party that thinks Sarah Palin is the second coming of Ronald Reagan) than deal with the issue in a responsible manner.
Go read my strory called America Land of Political Pirates, on xxxworldofporn.com and find out what’s really going on. Someones really pissed and hacked the site to messed up the pic. I need to add one more site that was errased its infowars.com. This sucks, if we all got together and really marched and protested maybe we could change things? But we have some realy thoughtless people in office and banking, their selfishness might bring down the entire world. I doubt they’d let us have any power to REALLY change anythin.
“Waiting a few hours or days or weeks to see a”
You can wait for years or months too.
The real issue is that there is socialized Medicine like in the UK, New Zealand,Spain and to lesser extent, Canada, and there is universal coverage, like in Japan, France, Germany, Sweden.
In the US debate both ideas get mixed up.
They are not the same.
Socialized medicine sucks big time. And since discourges people to become doctors and nurses in the long term, Im not sure how sustainable is in the long term.
Universal Coverage is diferent.
There are some private insurers and some public subsidies to people who cannot affort private insurance. And there is a catalogs of public insured services. And there are regulations to insurance firms. And if the hospital is public or private or if the insurer is private does not matters.
Im not opposed to that.
But I do find Premier Obama urgency very troublesome.
For me is the economy stupid. And even more if the deficit stupid.
What is the urgency to railroad a deep Health care proposal during the first year of goverment with a deeper crisis looming?
Why not present all the alternatives and leat morons like Sarah Palin debate them.
“The only message a massive number of Americans not voting would send, is that the political fringes have finally taken over and politicians can now drop all pretense of being ‘for the people’ and instead, be totally beholden to tiny special interest groups.”
The reasons why American do not vote are good, it means that the lives of average Americans do not depends too much on politics.
In Europe and the Third World were everything is political, everybody votes becasue their lives depend on that.
Get a draft in the US for example and you will see people voting in record numbers.
Well you can make believe that the “average ” Americans life doesn’t depend on politics. But when you become a part time employee, when you were a full time one or the Gov is taking out $200-$300 dollars in taxes out of your checks. Or that $20 an hour job you had clossed because they were taxed and fined out of biz, or they requested a loan and the interest was so high that your job had to close it’s door’s, or the gov just stoped wanting the porn industry around, so the gov made getting pertectionist laws to inforce copywrite laws from being inacted and started giving more severe penalties, such as fines and jail sentences to people who made or distributed porn.
That’s why being a part of the system is really important. Anyone in this country could wind up behind bars or fined out of existance if we lose our freedoms. The health care issue is the manufacturing elites way to cut back costs, so there billions and billions won’t be touched by taxes.
The rich don’t like paying taxes and they don’t like helping anyone and the socialism that’s going on in this country is to protect bankers and wall street. Polliticians are just their pupets, we live in an imperial nation now.
It’s really important to stand up for your rights, we are living in an imperialist society, that stands for greed and protectionism. This heath bill is only about saving the manufacturing elites money, via the neo-liberal movement and because capitalism is in the hands of big biz and so is the gov. It’s sad and maybe well stand up against the imperialist liars who are controlling our lifes with “all for us and nothing for anybody else.” People don’t complain because nothing in gov ever changes and people feel hopeless.
Jade, capitalism via the neo-liberal movement has lifted billions out of poverty in China, Latin America, India and many other areas of the Third World. The US’ political system of democratic republicanism has some flaws but you show me a system that is better. Your rhetoric seems to promote an anarchic system that is untenable.
Please READ H.R. 3200. You will find that NOTHING you have said about it is true.
Harvey says:
But I do find Premier Obama urgency very troublesome.
For me is the economy stupid. And even more if the deficit stupid.
What is the urgency to railroad a deep Health care proposal during the first year of goverment with a deeper crisis looming?
As Bill Clinton noted on MTP last Sunday:
“Now, let me just say, I, I, I’ve had several big business leaders, to me privately express extreme support for passing any kind of bill that starts this progress, because they say this is killing America economically. Look what’s happened in the last several years, corporate profits are up, the cost of health care’s gone up three times the rate of inflation and wages are flat. Median income before the economic collapse, after inflation, was $2,000 a year lower than it was the day I left office. Why? Because all the things that could’ve–first, we haven’t created enough jobs. But secondly, all the money that could’ve gone to wage increases is going to pay the employer portion of employees’ health insurance. So I don’t think it’s fair to say that we’re going to–that the American people are going to have to pay a lot more to cover everybody.”
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This recession has been made worse by the subprime crisis and financial crisis of 2007-2008 but skyrocketing unemployment, especially in the manufacturing sector, has a lot to do with fundamental flaws in our economic system. Obama is pushing to fix the fundamentals in order to create a more robust yet stoic economy.
For years we’ve been in this reactionary mode where we relied on theories backed by complex mathematical formulas to maximize short-term profit and justify imprudent fiscal policy. We are learning now that those formulas of macro must be interpreted within the context of a society’s standing. Like I just told Jade, much of capitalism is good but market activities could be subject to irrational exuberance (including herd behavior) that screws up proper risk evaluation. With increased reliance on mantras “‘the market’ is always efficient” or “lets get government off out backs”, we have created a global economy that could sometimes be characterized as being on crack, especially in regards to environmental externalities.
Reforming Health Care is an opportunity to HELP employers with their health care costs (promoting a more flexible labor market), bridge the income gap and restore that standing of the middle class (as healthcare costs contribute to inequality), and reduce the deficit as we spread out the healthcare cost burden in the new system lowering overall costs.
So, while “not wasting a crisis”, Obama is trying to push for a plan that’s in line with our long-term economic interests.
“Like I just told Jade, much of capitalism is good but market activities could be subject to irrational exuberance (including herd behavior) that screws up proper risk evaluation. With increased reliance on mantras “‘the market’ is always efficient” or “lets get government off out backs”, we have created a global economy that could sometimes be characterized as being on crack, especially in regards to environmental externalities.”
Since my early comment did not got through Cindy delete it. ( CL-I did not Harvey, lol, put down the scotch bottle…)
I say something, there is no proof that Lord Barry and his minions are not subject too to exhuberance, herd behavior, improper risk evaluation or not the right assesment of externalities.
Unless Lord Barry and the goverment bureucrats are supermenschen that somehow take decisions with perfect information, total self interest and only concern for the common good.
The right punishment for capitalistic mistake is bankrupcy or inflation. For goverments is neither, they often are out of power when the negative externalities of bad policies come to roost.
Frankly this is a total bullshit. –I’m sorry, what is? What I said?
I say something, there is no proof that Lord Barry and his minions are not subject too to exhuberance, herd behavior, improper risk evaluation or not the right assesment of externalities.
–Well, we know from our experience with the Roaring 90s (along with countless other decades) that regulators are not perfect. I don’t have all the answers. However, having an economic paradigm that believes that the marketplace stands alone and is always right is impractical and problematic for our long-term economic stability. Read Karl Polanyi.
I ask Cindy to delete post 26, for some reasons it did not got into correction mode and I could not edit it.