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By marfdrat on October 6, 2011
Saw this over at Legal Insurrection: The silent majority. The ones who pay the bills, and the taxes, and the tuitions, and the pensions, and the benefits, for the people who falsely claim to be the 99%. The ones who did not graduate from the school of perpetual expectations and handouts. The ones who falsely [...]
Posted in Economics & Politics, Liberty & Freedom | Tagged capitalism, dont tread on me, occupy wall street, occupyWhiteHouse, smelly hippies |
By marfdrat on May 8, 2011
The Bay Citizen reports on one of the effects of government-imposed price controls: shortages. The price-control system? Rent control. It’s been in effect in San Francisco for decades, and like every other place where it’s been implemented, it has the same result: perfectly good housing is taken out of circulation because owners of the properties [...]
Posted in Economics & Politics | Tagged capitalism, Economics, free markets, government policies, price controls, rent control, shortages |
By marfdrat on December 11, 2010
Warren Meyer (who writes Coyote Blog) has a new column at Forbes about the strange affliction that affects progressives (liberals): they’re too conservative to accept capitalism. At least, that’s the way Meyer explains it. This story of progressives trying to stop history has continued to repeat itself through the generations. In the seventies and eighties, [...]
Posted in Economics & Politics | Tagged capitalism, coyote blog, Forbes, liberals, progressives, social policy, warren meyer |
By marfdrat on December 3, 2010
This video is, ostensibly, a demonstration of how statistics can be taken from dry, sterile reports to vivid, interesting audio/visual presentations. As you watch, though, think about the why behind 200 countries moving from poor and sick to much more healthy and rich (H/T to Coyote Blog).
Posted in Economics & Politics | Tagged capitalism, health, statistics, wealth |
By marfdrat on October 8, 2010
Apparently, this is not an easy answer for Dick Blumenthal, the Democrat who’s running for the Senate in Connecticut. Linda McMahon, the Republican candidate knows exactly how a job gets created: “Government, government, government. Government does not create jobs. It’s very simple how you create jobs. An entrepreneur takes risk. He or she believes that [...]
Posted in Economics & Politics | Tagged capitalism, Connecticut, free enterprise, government, Linda McMahon, Richard Blumenthal |
By marfdrat on August 17, 2010
This is actually the full version of the excerpt I posted earlier. Except for the exact figures, names, and cultural references, this speech by Ronald Reagan in 1964 could have been given last week. The intrusions and transgressions of the leviathan federal government are exponentially larger. The ideas of the progressives haven’t changed all that [...]
Posted in Economics & Politics | Tagged capitalism, leviathan, liberty, progressives, reagan, socialism |
By marfdrat on July 22, 2010
I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: John Hayward has to be one of the best bloggers writing today. Here are short excerpts of his two latest posts. You owe it to yourself to click on the link and go read the rest of them. Whistling Past The JournoList Graveyard Leftist writers and pundits [...]
Posted in Economics & Politics | Tagged capitalism, free market, general motors, integrity, journalists, obama |
By marfdrat on July 22, 2010
Chris Meisenzahl at Amateur Economist has some great quotes today. He posts lots of other great stuff about watches, architecture, cars, clothes, and, of course, economics. Pay him a visit sometime. I love the one by George Bernard Shaw, and it is interesting that Jefferson thought we had too many parasites living off the government [...]
Posted in Economics & Politics | Tagged capitalism, freedom, George Bernard Shaw, parasites, quotes, taxes, Thomas Jefferson |
