The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for February 07, 2010

Yikes, perhaps a bit too close to the truth.

That’s malpractice! We have it on tape!

Make that blood transfusion 30 weight.

What the heck……they use staples, don’t they??

No, the bio safe equivialent to Super Glue

Hey, the superglue thing works!

The magic of the lowest bidder. Now you can see why GWBush liked the no-bid contract!!!

Government uses the lowest bidder. Free enterprise uses the best buy WITH the best product. There’s a world of difference in the two.

This makes me feel great about my surgery on Tuesday. :-o

Who all voted in our president?

@eardropping: I think that free enterprise requires that the bidder with the greatest profit margin is used - shareholders would likely be very unhappy with your model..

@awkwoid Greatest profit margin for who? The seller? Or the buyer? (Unless the buyer is the ultimate end customer, he or she is going to turn around and sell it again, possibly after incorporating the item into another product.)

eardroppings is correct. With certain exceptions, typically emergencies, government agencies are required to buy from the low bidder. Private enterprise, on the other hand, can buy from whoever they want, as long as anti-corruption, anti-discrimination and similar laws are obeyed.

Example: Gov’t: “ABC is a bunch of jerks, but they’re the low bidder. We have to go with them.” Private enterprise: “ABC is the low bidder, but they’re a bunch of jerks. We’ll go with XYZ instead. They’re a little more expensive, but they’re a lot easier to deal with if something goes wrong.”

Of course, that said, if private enterprise doesn’t buy from the low bidder, they better be able to show their stockholders and other interested parties that it’s for a legitimate reason, rather than kickbacks and corruption.

Just sayin’, this is a depiction of the Republican plan to allow insurance companies to sell across state lines.

If passed, it’s a race to the bottom as the companies shop around for the state with the lowest (cheapest) standards, and move their headquarters there.

Those patient protections tend to get in the way of profits, you know.

CoBass is EXACLTY right and well stated….

I am AMAZED that anyone can even question this. It BEWILDERS me how people can’t understand such a simple concept.

awkwoid doesn’t get it.

Fact is, the liberals, despite all the evidence via the bailouts, spending, etc. are STILL saying, “Let’s SPEND more money (money we don’t even have) instead of cutting expenses. Liberals can argue all they want, but the FACT will always remain the same as they do in any household. If you spend more than you have, you’re going to be in debt….not only the debt you owe but also the debt of the charges of borrowing that come along with the debt. That’s why China is going to OWN us. The more you borrow, the more the interest and debt you incur, and it gets worse and worse and worse.

The liberal response: “Bush got us in this mess!” I agree that he lit the candle. He made the mistake of spending like a liberal. So, Obama blames Bush in one breath and then he goes and does THE EXACT SAME THING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Only he makes Bush’s spending like a kid in a candy store while he spends our money like someone who has ALL of our credit cards in his hand.

You HAVE to see this. It will make it abundantly clear…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5yxFtTwDcc

Just go look at this. Case closed.

Holy Smoke: My goodness! What could possibly go wrong?

Retaining the status quo.