In Obama's America, the VA does not remove maggots from wounds

[piezoe]

Aren't you the same loon who references Shadow Stats? Or is that accepted reading according to your master list of "fake news" sites?

Indeed I have referenced John William's site on a number of occasions without taking a particular stand on the validity of his method. which amounts to a simple adjustment of the official data. It's controversial and he has attempted to answer the controversy. You'll have to be your own judge and jury on that one. What's not controversial however is factual: The method of computing inflation has been changed a number of times and always the net effect has been to reduce the inflation rate. Whether hedonics should be used is controversial. Its use does reduce significantly entitlement COLAs.

The main place I used shadowstats was to show that if you use Williams inflation numbers, rather BLS numbers, college tuition has not gone up above the inflation rate at all, but just kept pace with it. That coupled with reduction in state and local tuition subsidies would explain nicely why so many of the less well endowed minor state universities are struggling financially despite tuition hikes.

I don't have a list of fake news sites, but I'd be happy to consider your list. Why not give it to us?

 

[piezoe]

You are a complete scumbag.

It seems you have a closed mind. Is that your conclusion as well?

 

[piezoe]

The VA is probably still using maggots to clean wounds.

Along with leeches for bleeding.

I think leeches were out of favor well before maggots. Certainly they were used in the First world war, but probably in the second as well. They do an excellent job of cleaning a wound.

this turned out to be easy to find: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggot_therapy
Apparently "disinfected maggots" are still used. I wonder how one disinfects a maggot? What is the price of a vial of FDA approved maggots via the hospital dispensary, I wonder? This may affect my opinion of flies. If a box of kleenex is $15, how much would one have to pay for a hospital dispensed fly swatter?

 

[AAAintheBeltway]

Is this from Info-news, Breitbart or the national Enquirer?

YAH, except Obama doesn't decide any of this stuff. And neither will Trumpestuous, thankfully.

Anyway, thanks for the humor: ",,,first rate treatment." By the way, have you stopped by an Emergency Room lately? It's called "treat and street."

I don't find the reality of our vets dying due to lack of care by the VA a humorous subject. I do totally blame Obama. Who else was president? Do you honestly think if he put as much time on the VA as he did on say, playing freakin' golf or partying with Beyonce' and JayZ, he might have made a difference?

It's a matter of priorities and for Obama, illegal immigrants, attacking the police and shilling for race hustlers were far more important than our vets.

 

[gwb-trading]

I think leeches were out of favor well before maggots. Certainly they were used in the First world war, but probably in the second as well. They do an excellent job of cleaning a wound.

this turned out to be easy to find: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggot_therapy
Apparently "disinfected maggots" are used. I wonder how one disinfects a maggot?

Brings new meaning to the Marine Drill Sergeant screaming "Now listen maggots".

 

[piezoe]

I don't find the reality of our vets dying due to lack of care by the VA a humorous subject. I do totally blame Obama. Who else was president? Do you honestly think if he put as much time on the VA as he did on say, playing freakin' golf or partying with Beyonce' and JayZ, he might have made a difference?

It's a matter of priorities and for Obama, illegal immigrants, attacking the police and shilling for race hustlers were far more important than our vets.

Apparently you misunderstood. I found humor in the remark "first rate treatment" for [illegal] immigrants, because all they get is "treat and street". I, like you, don't find anything humorous about mistreatment of VETs, or even of illegal immigrants for that matter. But I do find the characterization of "treat and street" as "first rate care" hilarious and absurd at the same time.

 

[piezoe]

Brings new meaning to the Marine Drill Sergeant screaming "Now listen maggots".

he he he.

 

[Scataphagos]

This was one of Trump's most powerful lines in my view. It is undeniably true. Illegals get obamacare, paid for by law-abiding americans, or they go to a hospital, give a fake name and get first rate treatment. Our vets get put on a waiting list, then sit around and die while administrators game the system to make sure they get their bonuses.

Beyond shameful.

 

[jem]

aaa did not misunderstand. nor did anyone else.
this was drone protection of democrats. used by lefties all the tim. joke and distract. you should have put more time in before going to the lefty tool book.

maggots were used to clean wounds I believe up up into the 1940s. And from what I've been told they do a damn fine job of it. Look it up on Wiki and get back to us.

 

[W.J. Feathermaker III]

Indeed I have referenced John William's site on a number of occasions without taking a particular stand on the validity of his method. which amounts to a simple adjustment of the official data. It's controversial and he has attempted to answer the controversy. You'll have to be your own judge and jury on that one. What's not controversial however is factual: The method of computing inflation has been changed a number of times and always the net effect has been to reduce the inflation rate. Whether hedonics should be used is controversial. Its use does reduce significantly entitlement COLAs.

The main place I used shadowstats was to show that if you use Williams inflation numbers, rather BLS numbers, college tuition has not gone up above the inflation rate at all, but just kept pace with it. That coupled with reduction in state and local tuition subsidies would explain nicely why so many of the less well endowed minor state universities are struggling financially despite tuition hikes.

I don't have a list of fake news sites, but I'd be happy to consider your list. Why not give it to us?

I wasn't clear in my previous post. I happen to agree with much of what John Williams says, BUT you cannot really "pick and choose" what you consider "fake news" and "real news" if you are going to be honest on this point. Williams represents a departure from the status quo as do the vast majority of sites deemed to be "fake news". So when you slam Breitbart, Infowars, Zerohedge (most of them would likely cite John Williams as well), you are simply being a hypocrite. And yes, the opposite of the coin could possibly be Salon, HuffPo, etc, etc...I'm not arguing that EVERYTHING on the right wing sites is to be trusted or doesn't have an agenda, but when I see the mainstream press simply dump everything that leans right into the "fake news" bin, it's pretty damn obvious what is happening.