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...World The excellent "Postcard: North Parsonfield" by Christopher Ketcham was almost worth my year's subscription to TIME on its own [Nov. 16]. This short item shone a bright light on how close some pockets of U.S. society are to parts of the Third World, with their lack of health care and their gun-toting distrust of democratic institutions. In an entirely nonjudgmental way I could not help thinking how at home, with perhaps a few cultural adjustments for the position of women, the Chutes and their neighbors might be among the Pashtun of Afghanistan. Dr. Stephen Hopkins, ECCLES, ENGLAND...
...idea of what seemed to me an advocation of huge tax increases during or immediately after a recession [Nov. 9]. But as I read on I realized that Klein's ideas were not only rational and sound, they accurately described the problem with government employees' massive advantage in health insurance, and how the powerful unions will negate any attempt to tax their "gold-plated health care plans." The article even brought me to shame when he stated that we're nowhere close to a reasonable discussion about taxes, as I myself would have argued intensively against any form of taxation...
Some of that talk is being matched by action. In his new government, Zuma began by promoting the good and sacking the bad. The well-regarded former tax commissioner, Pravin Gordhan, became Finance Minister. Barbara Hogan - who as Health Minister ended years of South Africa's attachment to what the U.N. called the "lunatic fringe" of the AIDS world - took Public Enterprise. Zuma fired Hogan's predecessor at health, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, who recommended beetroot, garlic, lemon juice and potatoes to treat HIV and AIDS, and former police chief Jackie Selebi, who is charged with corruption...
...South Africa hovers at around 40% but in Nkandla it is 90%. Tarred roads, electricity and running water are a novelty if they exist at all, a quarter of the population is infected with HIV and only 3% graduate from high school. Though he grew up before AIDS, bad health was rife - his father, a policeman, died when he was 3. His mother was a domestic servant for a white family and Zuma dropped out of school to work on his uncle's farm and as a kitchen...
...that our nation faces; I don’t have the luxury of committing to just one.” The president claimed that another decade of nation building in Afghanistan would hardly incentivize the Afghan government to take the reins and would distract from imperative domestic issues including health care, education, and economic reform...