This is Elizabeth Warren’s “You didn’t build that – so we’ll take it” on steroids – owners get “diluted.”
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Notable Quote – Uncertainty Of Profit Should Trump “Social Issue”
This is a more scholarly definition contra the 1/2024th Indian Elizabeth Warren, who still holds that since “YOU DIDN’T BUILD THAT,” everyone else is entitled to the fruits of your labor including if all you do is sit on your ample posterior and whine.
Notable Quote – Contrary to What the Progressives Believe…
Contrary to What the Progressives Believe “hoarding” of their own wealth and not spending it on the “right things” (according to Progressives) is actually a public good and not a bad thing. But then again, Progressives are the greedy ones.
Notable Quote – I’m mad as hell and YOU shouldn’t be taking it anymore!!!!
Collusion, you say? We’ve heard nothing BUT collusion for four years, ending up with NOTHING. What we are seeing today is the REAL collusion that the Left has been projecting onto us for years – being done by them. OKAY, I’M SICK AND TIRED OF THIS AND I WANT TO CALL IT OUT RIGHT NOW: … Read more
Notable Quote – Politics Does Sure Bring Everything Else Down
As a card-carrying founder of the Just Leave Me Alone Coalition, I blame Progressives that believe they are Society’s equivalent of the elementary school “teacher’s pet” kid that feels self-righteous, bossing everyone else around.
Notable Quote – We Are Not the Machines Progressives Want Us to Be
Part of my “libertarian leanings” as a Conservatarian is for Government’s hands and intrusiveness to be hands-off. Let people, let Individuals, decide for themselves what is best for themselves.
Notable Quote: Nothing lasts forever – especially monopolies
Warning against “monopoly fatalism,” the Cato Institute’s Ryan Bourne says: Time was, the A&P grocery chain was the entrenched “Amazon of its day,” with almost 15,000 stores by 1935. Seen one recently? Between 1976 and 1978, the government worried that IBM might have a monopoly on the “office typewriter industry.” A November 2007 Forbes cover … Read more
Notable Quote – You Can’t Understand a Person if Your Only Lens Is Critical Race Theory
If you only see people as part of a particular kind of crowd, you can never get to know them as a person. Critical Race Theory has nothing to do with Individuals – it is only about how to move power, using the guise of race, from one set of people to another.
Notable Quote – Society vs Government
Just as the Founders considered and created a Constitution that would guarantee the Separation of Powers, the philosophy behind it was to set up bulwarks to deny people the ability to aggregate power unto themselves and their special interests.
Notable Quote – “…of the Progressive Era were its greatest failures”
[Progressives of the 1930s] were determined that their vision of the managed economy should take precedence in all areas of life. Although they purported to have great sophistication on economic and social matters, their understanding of those matters was primitive, and their disdain for the evident signs of social improvement colored their vision of the … Read more
Notable Quote – Trump Is the Best Stand-up Comedian Ever
“Now, she also said earlier that Trump had no sense of humor, therefore it couldn’t be a joke. To which I pointed out that he is the most successful stand-up comedian in the history of humanity. His rallies with gigantic audiences are literally stand-up comedy.
Notable Quote – Liberty?
How can liberty be anything other than negative? Liberty is the absence of external control. Only in our age of collective thinking and untidy language could such a thing as “positive liberty” be conceived. The state power to coerce is not liberty. -Bruce Walker (Negative Liberties and Obama Newspeak) Because Socialists never talk about that in … Read more
Notable Quote – what kind of life do you desire? A variant of “Who Chooses?”
The issue, of course, was that there have always been two kinds of people: those who agree with Chris Sununu that merely prolonging life trumps every other consideration; and those who agree with General John Stark that there’s little point in prolonging life if it means giving up the freedom to live that life the … Read more
Notable Quote – one important basis of Freedom is the Right to Private Property
The essential teaching of liberalism is that social coöperation and the division of labor can be achieved only in a system of private ownership of the means of production, i.e., within a market society, or capitalism. All the other principles of liberalism – democracy, personal freedom of the individual, freedom of speech and of the … Read more
Notable Quote – “You’re Negotiating a Surrender.”
On the idea that if our elected representatives are negotiating contracts with groups of government employees, they should be public.
I’ve Always Said that Govt has Crowded out or Co-Opted Charities…
I’ve always said that Govt has crowded out or co-opted charities but I don’t think I’ve ever written about it in terms of retirement. Thought about it, never wrote about it. Glad Michael Strain did.
Notable Quote – What is Needed for a Prosperous Economy?
Both the Right to Private Property and The Rule of Law is being attacked in what seems to be hundreds of cities across America. Lawless mobs made up of Black Lives Matter and Antifa (and other assorted ne’er-do-wells and other riff-raff wanting a “Grand Adventure”) laying siege to these targets.
Notable Quote – It used to be about the Constitution
Our Founders wanted a limited Government constrained by the Constitution. But if our elected Representatives refuse to even talk about the Constitution’s limitations upon them, how can it be limited?
The History of the ‘Left’s Religion’ “Leads only to Shortages, Despotism, and Murder”
The Left says of the Right, “You fools, it is demonstrable that dinosaurs lived one hundred million years ago, I can prove it to you, how can you say the earth was created in 4000 BCE?”
Notable Quote- information, information, information
It is because a modern economy is so complex that nobody can know all the facts that it could not effectively be guided by a central plan but must be conducted on the basis of decentralization of decisions.