“Assume that a surgeon has discovered how to do brain surgery, that he can do only one a month, that 1,000 persons a year need such an operation if they are to survive. How is the surgeon's scarce resource to be allocated? Charge whatever price is necessary to adjust supply and demand, say $50,000! 'For shame,' some will cry. 'Your market system will save only wealthy people.' For the moment, yes. But soon there will be hundreds of surgeons who will acquire the same skill; and, as in the case of the once scarce and expensive 'miracle drugs,' the price then will be within reach of all.” PeopleIfsNeedsYearsPersonsMomentsCan DoBrainCasesCryMonthsDrugSkillsDemandResourcesMiracleShameAssumingOperationsAcquireExpensiveWealthySurgerySurgeonsScarceWithin ReachSupply And DemandBrain SurgeryScarce Resources Author:Leonard Read
“If I won a few billion in the lottery, I would create an institute where people who would like to die would come spend a weekend, a week, or a month in pleasure, under drugs perhaps, in order to disappear afterward, as if erased.” PeopleIfsOrderDiesPleasureWeekMonthsDrugDisappearBillionsWeekendInstituteLottery Author:Michel Foucault
“I was 13. And on my own for about 10 months, but those were long months. My stepdad wanted me out of his hair and tried to put me in a home, a hospital kind of place for kids with drug problems, which I absolutely did not belong in. So I left that place and struck out on my own...” KindLongProblemHomeKidsWantedLeftMy OwnHairMonthsDrugHospitalsStepdads Author:Rose McGowan
“I cracked a child prostitution ring - I'd worked with three vice cops every day for months, out on the street, in the cold, trying to track down the pervs and the young girls being prostituted.We finally got the convictions.Six or seven months later, I was working, and I glanced up at the TV, and it was a report on a federal case.It was all three of them, in federal court, in handcuffs. Every time they busted a drug lord or a doper, they'd take all their money and their jewelry and flat screens before sending them to jail. They had been stealing from dopers for years!” TryingYearsChildrenYoungGirlThreeLordCasesStreetsTvsMonthsColdDrugSixCourtSevenTrackVicesConvictionScreensRingsStealingReportsFlatsJailCopProstitutionJewelryCrackedBustedHandcuffsSeven MonthsPervs Author:Nancy Grace
“As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction.” SufferingMillionsMonthsDrugAddictionCongressAlcoholRecoveryCelebrateTreatmentBarriersDrug AddictionFunny Sarcastic Author:Jim Ramstad