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Notable Quote – Private Sector has to Work at Stuff while Public Sector Can Be Mediocre

by Skip / 12 June 2021 12 June 2021

And unlike a government agency, the private owner is obliged by self-preservation to try to avoid losses, which means that he is forced to run his railroad economically and efficiently. And also unlike a government agency, the private capitalist is nearly always obliged to face competition – which means to make the services he provides or the …

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COVID Response: What Bureaucrats and Politicians Refuse to Admit…

by Skip / 9 June 2021 9 June 2021

While the politicians all cry out (including NH Governor Chris Sununu) “I GOT US THROUGH THIS!!” COVID thing, hardly any of them are willing to reflect on how many DIDN’T make it through because of their COVID lockdowns.

Notable Quote – What Is To Come of Our American Experiment?

by Skip / 8 June 2021 8 June 2021

“The American project, distilled to its essence, was, and the conservative project is, to demonstrate that a government constructed on the assumptions of natural rights must be limited government.”

Notable Quote – You May Be Overqualified but Not Underpaid

by Skip / 3 June 2021 3 June 2021

we as a Society are seemingly about the complaining but not about the doing: “SOMEBODY’S GOTTA DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS!!!”

I Cannot Find the Cleverness to Justify Discrimination Now, Either to Others or to Myself

by Skip / 31 May 2021 31 May 2021

To combat past racism, you need to be a current racist. That’s what Professor Thomas Sowell is refusing to do or believe:

The Left Not Only Doesn’t Trust the Masses It Is Fearful Of Us

by Skip / 26 May 2021 26 May 2021

The Left not only doesn’t trust the masses it is fearful of us. They understand that Freedom to choose by others is an existential threat both to their top-down order and to their inner selves as well.

moochers electing looters to steal from producers

Socialists Just Don’t Understand “Spontaneous Order”

by Skip / 25 May 2021 25 May 2021

Bernie-Bro-Socialists continue to believe that a single person, or a cabal of such minded people, has the talent and wherewithal to control an entire nation’s economy. Easy – peasy, they say, with never a look back over their “History shoulder” to be abused of that notion.

Notable Quote – This is Why the Idea of Equity only matters in ownership of something

by Skip / 16 May 2021 16 May 2021

There is an additional advantage to a system that encourages, or at least tolerates, multiple sources of decision-making. Not only do human agents differ considerably in their attitudes toward risk; they differ also in their skills, capabilities, and orientations, however those differences may have been acquired. This heterogeneity of the human input, insufficiently stressed in …

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Notable Quote – I Have to Keep Saying This Because So Many Haven’t Learned It

by Skip / 15 May 2021 15 May 2021

An objective look at the limitation of our knowledge – how difficult is it to know whether we are making good decisions even in our own lives, let alone in those of anyone else? – reveals that in fact we are typically in no position to judge what is good for others.

Notable Quote: “Collectivists hit hardest”

by Skip / 6 May 2021 6 May 2021

Only upon the premise of individualism can a free society be built. In fact, individualism was the implicit philosophical principle underlying the American concept of government as servant rather than master. The real significance of the American Revolution lay not in a military triumph (for other nations have won independence only to lapse back into …

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