Patterico's Pontifications

8/2/2012

Chick-Fil-A Saga Continues: The Invisible Hand Smites Adam Smith

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 8:15 pm



This “nice guy” decided to fight Chick-Fil-A’s “hate” by telling them how much he hates their “hate”:

As you can see, the employee responded to his barrage of vitriol very politely.

Now he has lost his job.

An executive at a medical manufacturing firm lost his job after a YouTube video of him verbally ambushing a young employee at a Tucson Chick-fil-A went viral.

Adam Smith, formerly Chief Financial Officer at Vante, stepped down after the video — which Smith shot and uploaded himself —caused embarrassment to the company.

. . . .

In the video, which runs 2 minutes, 21 seconds, Smith enters the drive-thru, explaining that he’s ordered a free cup of water. Once the employee hands him his cup, he lambastes her employer, calling Chick-fil-A “a hateful corporation” and “a horrible corporation with horrible values” that “gives money to hate groups.”

. . . .

“I don’t know how you live with yourself and work here,” Smith says to the employee, before calling himself “totally heterosexual” and saying there’s “not a gay in me” and “I just can’t stand the hate.” He also says he’s “I’m a nice guy, by the way.”

The more famous Adam Smith would have argued for the right of this Adam Smith to boycott Chick-Fil-A — and for Vante’s right to tell Smith to take a hike.

All hail the marketplace.

Well, She *Is* Cuter . . .

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 7:47 pm



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Government Seeks to Eliminate Routine EKGs

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 7:28 am



More government health care = less health care:

On Monday an expert government panel, the United States Preventive Services Task Force, joined the call by recommending against routine testing with electrocardiograms, or EKGs, in people who have no known risk factors or symptoms of heart disease, like shortness of breath or chest pains. The recommendations, published online in Annals of Internal Medicine, made the test the latest addition to an expanding list of once routine screening tools that have fallen out of favor. Earlier this year, the task force advised against regular screening with the prostate specific antigen, or P.S.A., blood test, long considered the gold standard for early detection of prostate cancer. The panel has also come out against measures like annual Pap smears for many women and regular mammograms for women in their 40s.

Saves money! What could be the possible downside?

I’m aware of a case where someone showing no symptoms asked for an EKG because they watched what happened to Andrew Breitbart, and didn’t want it to happen to them. The EKG revealed a potential issue, leading to more testing. Ultimately, atherosclerosis was ruled out, but testing indicated an issue with cardiomyopathy.

Problems like this can be addressed . . . but not if you don’t know you have them.

Policies like failing to deport criminal illegals, or certain lenient criminal justice policies, or elimination of medical tests . . . these all sound great to certain crowds in the abstract. The only trouble is that they actually kill people.

P.S. If you’re over 40 and you are concerned you might have heart disease, get yourself checked out. Do it before ObamaCare makes it impossible.


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