Sunday, October 29, 2017
A Centennial Celebration of Tyranny and Terror
Propaganda Has Replaced Education as the Goal of Too Many “Educators”
The great Thomas Sowell:
One of the things that we take for granted today is that it is wrong to take other people’s land by force. Neither American Indians nor the European invaders believed that. Both took other people’s land by force – as did Asians, Africans, Arabs, Polynesians, and others. The Indians no doubt regretted losing so many battles. But that is wholly different from saying that they thought battles were the wrong way to settle the question of who would control the land.
Today’s child cannot possibly put himself or herself in the mindset of Indians centuries ago, without infinitely more knowledge of history than our schools have ever taught. Nor is understanding history the purpose of such questions. The purpose is to score points against Western society.
In short, propaganda has replaced education as the goal of too many “educators.”
Saturday, October 28, 2017
Winston Churchill's View of Free Trade
Again our Free Trade plan is quite simple. We say that every [person] shall have the right to buy whatever he wants, wherever he wants, at his own good pleasure, without restriction or discouragement from the state.
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
No Government Intervention
F.A. Hayek:
"Public education and public hospitals, libraries and museums, theatres and parks, were not first created by governments."
Friday, October 20, 2017
Hate Imports? Don't Use the Web!
Hate imports? Then don't use a browser or the World Wide Web. The web was invented by an Englishman:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web
Hate Imports? Don't Buy Anything from Outside the US, Just Try It
Hate imports? Stop buying ANYTHING produced outside the US.
Read the whole thing:
http://cafehayek.com/2017/10/true-protectionist-deal.html
Hate Big Corporations? Don't Worry, They're Only Around For a Little While
Think big corporations run everything? This article points out that only 12% of corporations on the big 500 list made 60 years ago, are still in business.
Read the whole thing:
http://www.aei.org/publication/fortune-500-firms-1955-v-2017-only-12-remain-thanks-to-the-creative-destruction-that-fuels-economic-prosperity/
Thursday, October 19, 2017
Virtue Signaling, and Its Huge Costs
From Matt Ridley, read the whole thing:
http://www.aei.org/publication/quotation-of-the-day-on-the-curse-of-modern-politics-an-epidemic-of-good-intentions-and-bad-outcomes/
The Welfare State
Robert Gore quote:
The welfare state guarantees everything but the opportunity to work hard, keep what you earn, and make a better life for yourself.
Monday, October 16, 2017
Modern Governments
Quote from Gordon Tullock:
"One of the major activities of modern governments is the granting of special privileges to various groups of politically influential people."
Thanks to Professor Boudreaux
Sunday, October 15, 2017
Who Defines "Living Wage"? Who Defines "Universal" Healthcare?
Read the whole thing:
http://cafehayek.com/2017/10/phrases-ever-fine-often-masks-mischief.html
While we are asking these questions, just who is supposed to define what is "fair" in all matters of society?
On "Fairness"
Professor Boudreaux on the issue of a scientific definition of fairness of government policies:
There is, for example, no “distribution” of income that can be determined by scientists, independently of the actual myriad choices of human beings that give rise to today’s “distribution,” to be “optimal” or “best” or “fair.”
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Jim Crow Policies Were Government Actions, Not Private Actions
Some history from Professor Boudreaux: "The unjust discrimination, the denial of opportunity, the suppression, and the cruelty of apartheid and of Jim Crow were not the results of market forces; they were the results of government suppression of market forces."
Sunday, October 08, 2017
Defend Yourself
"No law ever written has stopped any robber, rapist or killer, like cold blue steel in the hands of their last intended victim."
-W. Emerson Wright
Labels: defense
Monday, October 02, 2017
The System of Private Property is the Most Important Guaranty of Freedom
F.A. Hayek:
"What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. It is only because the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that nobody has complete power over us, that we as individuals can decide what to do with ourselves."
