The first thing we do let’s get rid of the experts.
The actual experts that built post-war America have retired, died off and left the scene leaving us not with up & coming protégés but instead an elite “expertocracy”
Tagged: Government
Lessons learned from the pandemic.
What we have learned – or at least what we should learn – from the pandemic is that people in high positions in government are quick to assume power and slow to relinquish it.
Democrats, Democrats everywhere but not a drop to drink.
Two questions. First: when is the last time you had even the slightest concern about drinking the water from your kitchen tap? Second: can you name a city in America under Republican leadership that is broke and dysfunctional?
What this conservative believes.
I believe in the sovereignty of the individual. Therefore I believe in personal responsibility. I believe in the duty of self help and in the freedom that flows from self-reliance.
Power: dispersed or concentrated? (Big difference.)
Get a letter from GEICO and you most likely throw it away. But get a letter from the IRS and the room spins.
I distrust the government. You should, too.
As government grows it becomes at once less competent and more malfeasant – a belief that has been again recently confirmed.
Paying on both ends.
With the best of intentions, the government has become the driving economic force in both higher education and in health care. In both cases, costs are out of control.
Texas creates jobs. Liberals condescend.
For ruling-class elites, there is nothing to recommend Texas. It is a miserable, Red State, George W. Bush-spawning hell-on-earth. So how, then, do they explain job numbers just released by the federal government?
The public/private disconnect.
I got an email from the superintendent of the school district where my younger daughter goes to school talking about the impact of state budget funding cuts.
You’ll never outthink a free market.
An office full of government functionaries is simply no match for the creativity of the free market.
WikiLeaks revelation: U.S. government not terribly competent.
The WikiLeaks story is simply staggering. In case you’ve missed it released on the Internet classified U.S. documents.
Capitalism to the rescue.
The 33 miners in Chile who were quite literally resurrected from their grave this week owe their lives in no small measure to two men. The first is Chilean president Sebastián Piñera.