"Progressives" Against Progress

A couple more priceless items from Kevin Williamson -

How the left enforces racial and economic segregation in their urban strongholds --

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/439291/economic-segregation-greatest-democrat-controlled-cities?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Trending%20Email%20Reoccurring-%20Monday%20to%20Thursday%202016-08-24&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives


With its exploitation the epi-pen controversy, the left continues its war on that great engine of progress, free enterprise. KW weighs in.

Williamson does neglect a couple of important points in his article.

1) True, the price of the epi-pen is still relatively low, but with a two year expiration date, the cost keeps recurring. Kevin does not suffer fools, or ingrates, gladly. He does mention that scientists have been trying, but have yet to be successful in finding a way to stabilize the active ingredient, epinephrine. 

2) The epi-pen should be priced at pennies per dose. That it isn't is due to the FDA and its regulatory blockade of potential competitors to Mylan, the current sole producer. (See WSJ editorial below).

What makes Williamson's piece notable is his recognition of the true source of our current high standard of living, unimaginable to those alive even a few decades ago. And he has a few choice words for the usual suspects who stand in the way of further progress.

Of course, Hillary Rodham Clinton has decided to make a federal case out of this, as has her primary rival, sometime Democrat and full-time socialist Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, i.e., the usual bulls—t from the usual orifices. Mrs. Clinton demanded an immediate reversal of the price hike, and Senator Sanders produced the usual flatulence about greedy executives.

Pardon my bluntness here, but screw these people. Nobody, anywhere, at any time, has ever in a moment of mortal terror cried out: “For God’s sake, is there a politician in the house?” You know how many treatments for anaphylaxis have been produced by politicians over the course of human history? Zero. Congress’s sole contribution to the existence of a handy device that keeps your children from dying from bee stings is the fact that Mylan CEO Heather Bresch is the daughter of a Democratic senator, Joe Manchin of West Virginia.

If we were relying on the intelligence, work ethic, creativity, entrepreneurship, scientific prowess, and far-sightedness of the members of Congress to produce treatments for allergic reactions or any other medical problem, we’d still have a million people a year dying from smallpox and preventable infections. We’d also be starving to death.

Bernie Sanders doesn’t have the first clue how an EpiPen works or what went into developing it, but he’s sure he knows what one should cost, and he’s sure who should decide — him. You know what Bernie Sanders is? He’s a bum. He was damn near 40 years old before he ever found his way into a full-time job, and that was in elected office; before that, he collected benefits, sold his creepy rape fantasies for left-wing newspapers at $50 a pop, and never lifted a finger toward any genuinely productive enterprise. He’s been suckling greedily at the public teat since way back when he could remember where his car keys are. Funny thing, though: Now he’s a bum with a third home on the waterfront of a Vermont island worth the better part of a million dollars. Every good apparatchik eventually gets his dacha.

Mrs. Clinton is a bum and a crook who used the State Department as a funnel to guide the money of favor-seeking business interests at home and abroad into the Clinton Foundation, a sham charity that exists to pay six-figure salaries to Clintons (Chelsea is full-time executive there) and their courtiers.

These people are parasites. They make: nothing. They create: nothing. They produce: nothing. But they feel perfectly justified — they positively glow with moral frisson — standing between the people who create and build and the people who benefit from those creations. And they don’t just stand there: They stand there with their hands out. I don’t know how much Heather Bresch has in the bank, but without checking, I’ll bet you five dollars it is a good deal less than the Clintons have piled up in “public service.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/439331/public-interest-health-dentistry-epipen-heather-bresch-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders


WSJ on the epi-pen --

http://www.wsj.com/articles/anaphylactic-political-shock-1472078239