A life of stasis would be population control, combined with energy rationing. That is the stasis world that you live in if you stay. And even with improvements in efficiency, you'll still have to ration energy. That, to me, doesn't sound like a very exciting civilization for our grandchildren's grandchildren to live in.
We all know what happens with socialized medicine: rationing and stagnant care.
Reversing the escalation of health care costs is going to need more than legislation, yet it can be done without imposing rationing, as critics of reform fear.
One of my most vivid memories from 1974 was the gas station at the foot of the hill below my Southern California high school - car lines snaking out into the street, heralding the failure of the government's price controls and lame ideas such as odd-even rationing.
I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.
Do I think that the ACA is going to force rationing upon the American people? Yes.
India needs to come out of its socialist pattern of doing things on a rationing basis.
I believe a nation does not maximize its health care until it starts to ask the hard question: How can we prioritize our expenditures to buy the most health care for the most people? We should not apologize for rationing; we should promote it and advance it.
It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing.
In the 1950s, as food rationing ended, I remember a plentiful supply of sweets for the first time.
