They and their friends and abettors in the Obama Administration, if you're honest and complete in scope.

Note that the Clinton scandal included intentions (threats) to influence and change (i.e., control and revise at will) the distribution of GPs versus specialists, and I still speculate aloud what may be done by any new government health care initiative that purports to approach the problems of lack of GPs, lack of doctors in underserved areas, and disparity of incomes of GPs, etc., versus some (many) specialists.

A relevent subject also in the news because of Washington's interventionism (intrusion and worse) is the case of global-warming-idiocy-driven intentions by Washington to develop a “cap and trade” system for controlling power plant (and other stationary-large-source, no doubt) emissions, which is a quota system with trading and lucrative opportunities for middlemen and for meddling by government, rather than being honest and non-cowardly, and imposing a fuel tax to combat emissions from combustion directly. Such a “cap and trade” system could be imitated by any system that would allocate and apportion various kinds of doctors (and residency and future-practice positions, or quotas of these) on, say, a regional basis. Not only would quotas be possible on different types of future (and present) doctors in an area, but also where they would be practiced. (A regional approach rather than at the state level seems likelier.)

It goes farther than that. With the progress of transport and of development elsewhere in the world, anything that can be easily or practically done in the Third World as well as here will effectively command Third Wages somewhere, or be done somewhere else. And that was explicitly stated among the books I own by a self-professed yellow-dog Democrat (actually quoting people like Robert Reich and Lester Thurow to describe economic trends as of the 1990s). While the resentful can insult those of us who know better than they, or engage in other illogical behavior, more reasoned minds and individuals will first see the issues and problems that truly exist, and draw logical inferences and conclusions, or report the facts, instead.

That is the truth of it folks. Worker class salaries are based on how society values those workers. Looking at these numbers is like looking at a mirror. This is who we are.

http://medicaleconomics.modernmedicine.com/mema…

Nailed it! If not for the working class, meaning people who actually contribute something worthwhile to society, the parasites on Wall St. wouldn't have a prayer, much less an infrastructure in which to work. Only a fool would try to portray this irony as “class envy”.

So, that was you way back when. My chauffeur and I laughed our heads off after that.