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Doctor Bentivegna is an ophthalmologist living in Connecticut. He has written numerous op-ed pieces for The Hartford Courant and The New York Times regarding health care, tort reform, and the political situation in Haiti.

Joseph Bentivegna, M.D.August 14, 2014

The Real Cause of the Flood of Illegal Immigrants – Jim Himes and his cronies at Goldman Sachs

  Jim Himes and the Democrats are often displaying their compassion for the illegal Mexican and Central American immigrants that have entered our country over the past decades. Yet, no one ever asks why these people – the vast majority who are decent and hard-working – came to the United States. The answer is simple. Jim Himes’ former employee Goldman Sachs, in their infinite greed, destroyed the Mexican economy in the 1990’s. Mexican politicians, like all politicians worldwide, have discovered that the best way to win elections is to promise services without raising taxes. To fund the resulting deficits, they issue bonds which are purchased by individual investors and institutions such as banks, brokerage firms, corporations and insurance companies. Purchasing bonds from a foreign country such as Mexico carries a certain risk, because the interest and principle payments are made in the country’s currency. If the country devalues the currency, the investors get taken to the cleaners. This is what happened in December of 1994. Mexican government officials had suckered Wall Street into buying bonds that paid inordinately high interest rates while promising not to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Immigration

Joseph Bentivegna, M.D.August 14, 2014

  Neo-Darwinism Misses the Point

Printed in the Torrington Register on November 10, 1994   The cumulative frustration caused by the failure of government intervention to create an integrated egalitarian society is now boiling over in academia and on our op-ed pages.   A new book, “The Bell Curve” by Charles Murray and Richard Herrstein, resurrects the concept that intelligence has a racial component and further postulates that a disproportionate percentage of African-Americans are thus genetically incapable of entering the middles class. It fails to acknowledge how misguided social policies have decimated the black family and how structural changes in our economy make it virtually impossible for the working poor, who are disproportionately black, to afford safe housing and health insurance.   Especially disturbing is the pseudoscience used to further this thesis. While there is a difference between the IQs of blacks and whites, this difference narrows with increased economic status, yet does not close completely. Therefore, it is concluded that the difference is genetic. This fails to account fo the fact that our popular culture promotes blacks as either entertainers or athletes, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Race Relations

Joseph Bentivegna, M.D.August 14, 2014

Increase Taxes on the Super Rich  

The United States is becoming a Third World country – where the rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the middle class have to work like dogs to remain middle class. Health care is unaffordable, private sector pensions are sparse, inflation is rampant and jobs that pay a living wage are few and far between.  One percent of the country now controls 50% of the wealth and while CEO’s typically made 15 times the wage of their workers in 1960, it is not unusual now to see a CEO pulling down 400 times this wage today. The main culprit is the low tax rate on the superrich. What is needed is a tax of 90% on wages and capital gains over $5,000,000 annual income. While this may seem extreme, this situation existed during the Presidency of Dwight Eisenhower (a Republican) – after adjusting for inflation. The low tax rate on the superrich has encouraged them to pillage the country. Leveraged buyouts (using taxpayer-backed money) of viable companies enabled investment bankers to raid pensions, slash health benefits, reduce wages and move jobs overseas. Elite athletes become multimillionaires while billionaire owners of sport franchises punt the cost of stadiums to the taxpayers.  … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Financial Issues

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Doctor Bentivegna is an ophthalmologist living in Connecticut. He has written numerous op-ed pieces for The Hartford Courant and The New York Times regarding health care, tort reform, and the political situation in Haiti.

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