• Alabama's Dumb Health Care Regulations Helped Create a Shortage of

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    Yak wrote

    https://reason.com/2021/08/24/alabamas-dumb-health-care-regulations-
    helped-create-a-shortage-of-icu-beds/?utm_medium=email

    "In Alabama, which is one of 27 states that subjects the supply of
    hospital beds to CON oversight by the state, we're now seeing some of
    the consequences of these rarely thought-of policies."

    Is there anything the govt doesn't screw up?




    Trump will save us.


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    Hitler was right!

    The Southern Argument for Slavery


    Southern slaveholders often used biblical passages to justify slavery.

    Those who defended slavery rose to the challenge set forth by the Abolitionists. The defenders of slavery included economics, history,
    religion, legality, social good, and even humanitarianism, to further
    their arguments.

    Defenders of slavery argued that the sudden end to the slave economy would
    have had a profound and killing economic impact in the South where
    reliance on slave labor was the foundation of their economy. The cotton
    economy would collapse. The tobacco crop would dry in the fields. Rice
    would cease being profitable.

    Defenders of slavery argued that if all the slaves were freed, there would
    be widespread unemployment and chaos. This would lead to uprisings,
    bloodshed, and anarchy. They pointed to the mob's "rule of terror" during
    the French Revolution and argued for the continuation of the status quo,
    which was providing for affluence and stability for the slaveholding class
    and for all free people who enjoyed the bounty of the slave society.
    The Negro's Place in Nature
    Some slaveholders believed that African Americans were biologically
    inferior to their masters. During the 1800s, this arguement was taken
    quite seriously, even in scientific circles.

    Defenders of slavery argued that slavery had existed throughout history
    and was the natural state of mankind. The Greeks had slaves, the Romans
    had slaves, and the English had slavery until very recently.

    Defenders of slavery noted that in the Bible, Abraham had slaves. They
    point to the Ten Commandments, noting that "Thou shalt not covet thy
    neighbor's house, ... nor his manservant, nor his maidservant." In the New Testament, Paul returned a runaway slave, Philemon, to his master, and, although slavery was widespread throughout the Roman world, Jesus never
    spoke out against it.

    Defenders of slavery turned to the courts, who had ruled, with the Dred
    Scott Decision, that all blacks — not just slaves — had no legal standing
    as persons in our courts — they were property, and the Constitution
    protected slave-holders' rights to their property.

    Defenders of slavery argued that the institution was divine, and that it brought Christianity to the heathen from across the ocean. Slavery was, according to this argument, a good thing for the enslaved. John C. Calhoun said, "Never before has the black race of Central Africa, from the dawn of history to the present day, attained a condition so civilized and so
    improved, not only physically, but morally and intellectually."

    Defenders of slavery argued that by comparison with the poor of Europe and
    the workers in the Northern states, that slaves were better cared for.
    They said that their owners would protect and assist them when they were
    sick and aged, unlike those who, once fired from their work, were left to
    fend helplessly for themselves.

    James Thornwell, a minister, wrote in 1860, "The parties in this conflict
    are not merely Abolitionists and slaveholders, they are Atheists,
    Socialists, Communists, Red Republicans, Jacobins on the one side and the friends of order and regulated freedom on the other."
    Nat Turner's revolt
    The violence of Nat Turner's 1831 slave revolt frightened many southern slaveholders. Such unrest was used by many as a reason to continue
    slavery.

    When a society forms around any institution, as the South did around
    slavery, it will formulate a set of arguments to support it. The
    Southerners held ever firmer to their arguments as the political tensions
    in the country drew us ever closer to the Civil War.

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