Herein lies the key to understanding why I believe government
can never be the answer.
“Here is the lesson in all of this: since
the New Deal, progressives have told us that if the government gains control of
an industry, it will be made equal so that there are no winners and losers.
But, instead, there are still winners and losers—the only thing that changes
is who chooses
them. And if we have learned anything from the past several years, it’s that
the government is never neutral.”
Please take just 2 minutes to think about world affairs from
a non-US perspective. I am not saying
take the interests of other countries – just consider them so as to understand
strategy. It makes perfect sense
for Kim Jong Un to want nukes and to act crazy.
It is the only thing that has prevented the US from taking him out
and/or declaring war on North Korea like we did with Saddam in Iraq and Gadhafi
in Libya amongst 5 or so other similar countries. The quote below is written as if from the perspective
of Kim Jong Un…
“The advantage of the guy who makes
others think he is crazy is that he alters their expectations. Had I not seemed
insane, just like my father, the great Kim Jong-il, the evil bourgeois
Westerners would have launched a devastating surgical attack on my nascent
nuclear program. But my nuttiness served as a deterrent. What they believed to
be dementia was nothing more than my ‘Juche’ ideology,
a nationalist self-confidence, my grandfather Kim Il-sung’s glorious
contribution to socialism, which makes us indecipherable to foreigners.”
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Take the time to read this – it is
critically important.
“It has been thought a considerable advance towards establishing
the principles of Freedom, to say, that government is a compact between those
who govern and those that are governed: but this cannot be true, because it is
putting the effect before the cause; for as man must have existed before
governments existed, there necessarily was a time when governments did not
exist, and consequently there could originally exist no governors to form such
a compact with. The fact therefore must be, that the individuals themselves,
each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each
other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments
have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to
exist.”
– Thomas Paine
Civil asset forfeiture is the most barbaric part of our
government. A very slippery slope …
“It really is the perfect way to steal.
No need to go to Congress and seek a tax increase. Just stop people traveling
on the highways and take whatever cash they happen to be traveling with.
And that’s the way asset-forfeiture or,
more accurately, asset-stealing works — by simply taking money from people
against their will, like with robbery.”
A better solution, Stossel points out, lies in
legalizing the ownership of these protected animals, treating them as private
property, aligning the incentives of the sellers with the animals themselves. This is similar to those criticizing the
cutting down trees in the rainforest not realizing the best thing they can do
for this is to use more paper – not less.
People fail to understand markets at even the most basic level.
Stossel sums it up brilliantly:
“Market-hating
environmentalists will love endangered animals to death.”
