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• On 13 May 2013 in Spain's communist town, tovarichpeter said:

  "They all thought that the market was God, who made everything work with his invisible hand. Before, it was a mortal sin to talk about the government having a role in the economy. Now, we see we have to put the economy at the service of man."
  — Mayor Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo, May 2009 remarks about Spain’s real estate bust and rampant unemployment [1]

• On 12 Apr 2013 in Do you go back school at the ripe old age of 60?, tovarichpeter said:

  Sixty is no longer "old". Learning should never stop. An MS in math sounds like a great idea. Since when is college or university or learning only for kids.

• On 5 Apr 2013 in Foreign trained doctors could help solve "physician shortage" in California, tovarichpeter said:

  It is bizarre that the idea of bringing in more foreign doctors as a way to drive down wages is never discussed. Readers of a front page Washington Post article on using nurses for some of tasks currently done by doctors must have been puzzled by this omission.

  While allowing nurses to do work for which they are qualified would seem to be a win-win for everyone but doctors, it seems especially strange that this piece never raised the possibility of bringing in more foreign trained doctors as a way to drive down wages and save patients and the public money. This is done all the time in the case of nurses. Many nurses are brought in from developing countries, most notably the Philippines, as a way to drive down the wages of nurses.

  There is no justification for not having the same approach to foreign doctors. Obviously doctors as a group are more wealthy and powerful than nurses, but news outlets are not supposed to adjust the news to suit the desires of the rich and powerful.