Archive for December 2008
This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists’ tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the “hidden” confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.— Alan Greenspan, “Gold and Economic Freedom” [1966]
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* “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself.
There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” John Adams (1814)
* “If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they
will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.”
Aristotle, Source: Politics, 343 BC
* “If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.”
Orson Scott Card
* “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
Winston Churchill
* “The founders understood that democracy would inevitably evolve into a system of legalized plunder unless the plundered were given numerous escape routes and constitutional protections such as the separation of powers, the Bill of Rights, election of senators by state legislators, the electoral college, no income taxation, most governmental functions performed at the state and local levels, and myriad other constitutional limitations on the powers of the central government.”
Thomas J. DiLorenzo
* “Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one’s government is not necessarily to secure freedom.” F.A. Hayek
* “To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process.”
Thomas Sowell
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Paterson and the rest of the NYS government is hell-bent on getting more money, any possible way. Paterson’s latest proposal is to expand “legal” gambling in the State.
There is only one road to economic recovery in NYS, cut spending and cut taxes. That will spur economic growth and attract new businesses.
Unfortunately, the people of NYS are screwed due to two powerful forces - liberals and unions. That means the average citizen barely has a chance to spend his/her own money.
The liberals believe that government is the panacea to all of life’s problems. They want to tax the shit out of you because they believe that they best know how to spend your money and who deserves to benefit from your hard work. The people earning the money are usually not deemed worthy beneficiaries of their own labor.
The unions, both public and private sector, spend millions to buy influence politicians to ensure that they have higher than average wages combined with outraegeously adorned benefits. School choice is the perfect example of putting the cart ahead of the horse. New Yorkers could save billions of dollars and provide a much better education to children by enabling real school choice. However, the teachers’ unions, and others, spend a plethora of money to make sure they have job safety at the expense of your child’s education.
Nothing is going to change until the people pulling the levers in the voting booths educate themselves and start making some smart decisions.
Indie is amazed by her first real snow.
It is hard to imagine these two fighting, but when they are awake, it happens.
