Some random political thoughts
Oct 19, 2011 06:29:32 #
How true that last quote is. It's troublesome that over the last few years, we've had way too many emergencies, and last minute "dooms day" decisions made by government officials.
Later we find that these decisions have to be changed, because they were based on lies and misinformation. This has been a problem no matter what party has been in the majority.
Later we find that these decisions have to be changed, because they were based on lies and misinformation. This has been a problem no matter what party has been in the majority.
Oct 19, 2011 07:49:07 #
MisterWilson wrote:
How true that last quote is. It's troublesome that over the last few years, we've had way too many emergencies, and last minute "dooms day" decisions made by government officials.
Later we find that these decisions have to be changed, because they were based on lies and misinformation. This has been a problem no matter what party has been in the majority.
Later we find that these decisions have to be changed, because they were based on lies and misinformation. This has been a problem no matter what party has been in the majority.
Couldn't agree more
"history doesn't repeat itself it just rhymes"
Mark twain
Oct 20, 2011 16:36:26 #
"Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least."
~Robert Byrne
~Robert Byrne
Oct 20, 2011 17:33:15 #
PP - "The man who invented fire was probably burned at the stake."
I read the same authors you do.
Here's one : My first Presidential vote was for Roger McBride. I've never voted out of the LP since.
I read the same authors you do.
Here's one : My first Presidential vote was for Roger McBride. I've never voted out of the LP since.
Oct 20, 2011 18:36:06 #
JimH wrote:
PP - "The man who invented fire was probably burned at the stake."
I read the same authors you do.
Here's one : My first Presidential vote was for Roger McBride. I've never voted out of the LP since.
I read the same authors you do.
Here's one : My first Presidential vote was for Roger McBride. I've never voted out of the LP since.
Jim
I'm more of libertarian futurist.
When it comes to the saying of the two things that are for sure "death and taxes". I would dispute both.
Maybe some day on a planet far far away
A fellow wacko That adopted reason and logic along time ago.
The lesser of two evils is still evil
I assure you I'm not a bot
Russ
Oct 20, 2011 18:36:34 #
JimH wrote:
PP - "The man who invented fire was probably burned at the stake."
I read the same authors you do.
Here's one : My first Presidential vote was for Roger McBride. I've never voted out of the LP since.
I read the same authors you do.
Here's one : My first Presidential vote was for Roger McBride. I've never voted out of the LP since.
Jim
I'm more of libertarian futurist.
When it comes to the saying of the two things that are for sure "death and taxes". I would dispute both.
Maybe some day on a planet far far away
A fellow wacko That adopted reason and logic along time ago.
The lesser of two evils is still evil
I assure you I'm not a bot
Russ
Oct 20, 2011 18:37:18 #
Oct 20, 2011 18:39:21 #
MisterWilson wrote:
"Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least."
~Robert Byrne
~Robert Byrne
Democracy <> Liberty
Oct 20, 2011 19:18:41 #
"Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it."
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
Oct 20, 2011 20:01:33 #
Famous last words:
Please don't shoot me. I only did it for your good.
~Muammar Gaddafi
Oct. 20. 2011
I wonder if his gold gun had silver bullets?
Please don't shoot me. I only did it for your good.
~Muammar Gaddafi
Oct. 20. 2011
I wonder if his gold gun had silver bullets?
Oct 20, 2011 22:13:26 #
"We were the first to contend that the more populated a society becomes the more control its government must have over its people"
Benito Mussolini
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."
Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."
Benito Mussolini
Oct 22, 2011 18:55:07 #
Excerpts from Fredreick Heyek "The Road to serfdom".
"Put yourself as head of the FDA. You can make two mistakes.
1) You can allow a drug to go to market that can potentially harm a bunch of people.
2) You can prevent a drug that would go to market that will help a bunch of people.
In the first case everyone will know.
In the second case no one will know.
In both cases you kill people.
Which mistake would you make? -- I bet the one that nobody knows. (Remember your head of the FDA.) You make the choice of life of death not the one who has a fatal disease.
Scenerio II I think this one is from milton freedman free to choose.
You regulate flying. That drives up the cost of flying. More people will drive instead of fly. Driving is inherently more dangerous than flying. You have accidents either way. In the first case it is a tragedy and makes the front page of every New Paper in the world. In the second case it makes the front page of your local paper hundreds or maybe thousands of them a year.
It is not measured how many people die from a car accident when compared to those who substitute for flying.
If People believe that flying is dangerous. They won't do it. I don't like to fly especially now. Even though I know flying is more safe. Unfortunately like most I have to get on a plane every now and then. I'm not sure I feel safer from regulation though. Its not the terrorist i am scared of. Its the fact that I'm 20,000 feet in the air. I don't really worry to much about sitting toward the back of a plane because its safer. You hit a mountain at 700 miles an hour and your all riding first class.
Just some random thought.
"Put yourself as head of the FDA. You can make two mistakes.
1) You can allow a drug to go to market that can potentially harm a bunch of people.
2) You can prevent a drug that would go to market that will help a bunch of people.
In the first case everyone will know.
In the second case no one will know.
In both cases you kill people.
Which mistake would you make? -- I bet the one that nobody knows. (Remember your head of the FDA.) You make the choice of life of death not the one who has a fatal disease.
Scenerio II I think this one is from milton freedman free to choose.
You regulate flying. That drives up the cost of flying. More people will drive instead of fly. Driving is inherently more dangerous than flying. You have accidents either way. In the first case it is a tragedy and makes the front page of every New Paper in the world. In the second case it makes the front page of your local paper hundreds or maybe thousands of them a year.
It is not measured how many people die from a car accident when compared to those who substitute for flying.
If People believe that flying is dangerous. They won't do it. I don't like to fly especially now. Even though I know flying is more safe. Unfortunately like most I have to get on a plane every now and then. I'm not sure I feel safer from regulation though. Its not the terrorist i am scared of. Its the fact that I'm 20,000 feet in the air. I don't really worry to much about sitting toward the back of a plane because its safer. You hit a mountain at 700 miles an hour and your all riding first class.
Just some random thought.
Oct 23, 2011 09:32:51 #
"Time has only given me a faint idea of how much I do not know and how much many are convinced they do know." -me
Oct 23, 2011 10:43:21 #
notnoBuddha wrote:
"Time has only given me a faint idea of how much I do not know and how much many are convinced they do know." -me
That quote very similar to Robert Allen who wrote the RealEstate book "nothing down" the qoute was out of his book "creating wealth"
He attributes the quote to Paul (the last name escapes me)
"its not that people don't know they know so much that just ain't so"
Oct 23, 2011 11:00:02 #
A conservative is someone who believes that life begins at conception and ends at birth. -- Anonymous
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