Who On Earth Is ‘Elizabeth Warren’?
September 27, 2011 6 Comments
Glenn Reynolds has some more responses to ‘Elizabeth Warren’. Funny, but seriously, who is this person and why are we studying these words of hers like they’re from the Talmud? I am being 100% serious here, I have no idea who this woman is or why it matters what she says or why her face would be put on some .gif next to some words she said. Lots of humans say lots of things we don’t put them all on .gifs next to transcribed text versions of those things.
Who is she??
In any event I still say my response suffices: the thing ‘Elizabeth Warren’ said/wrote is not an argument for something. It is not an argument for anything. I might be more inclined to respond to an argument if one were on offer. Next.
That Instapundit post is five days old. That’s like two years in internet time.
You’re right. I didn’t even notice!
So I may never learn who ‘Elizabeth Warren’ was.
Some mysteries are better left unsolved.
She’s a living demonstration of the regard we should have for Harvard-educated technocrats and the well-reasoned policies they recommend.
Ironically, actually reading her academic work doesn’t much change this assessment. She’s famous for vital social science, such as the fact that 99.9% of bankruptcies are caused by medical bills if you define a “medical bankruptcy” as one in which the debtor visited a doctor in the last 10 years before he filed.
Ah so that was her?
I have heard about this result, bankruptcies being caused by medical bills. I gather we are supposed to find it bad, or shocking, or something. This, I find strange: what are bankruptcies supposed to be caused by, if not large, unexpected medical bills necessary to preserve life? Seems like the perfect reason for a bankruptcy to me. Oh well I must be missing something.
Sonic, Sonic, Sonic… don’t you know that nothing bad can be allowed to happen to anyone, ever? If it does, it’s “society’s” fault, and “society” needs to pick up the tab.
I still find it amazing that people can be so good at this kind of angels-on-pinheads casuistry when it comes to things like health care, but…. the housing bubble? CRA had nothing to do with it!! Don’t look at Fannie Mae!!! It was obviously Bear Stearns and their evil Republican overlords!!!