Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Tim Nerenz, Ph.D., takes the 127th award for BSIHORL (Best Sentence I’ve Heard Or Read Lately).
Examining the beneficial and purifying force of competition, he comes up with this gem:
It’s neither the sheriff nor the priest that keeps the first auto mechanic honest in a small town; it’s the second mechanic.
Then, BSIHORL in hand, he goes in for the kill:
That European socialist model of corporatist protectionism has produced 40 years of job and wage stagnation over there; and we are in year number four of proving it was no fluke. In 2009 – the most recent year of U.S. government data on business mortality – there were 171,000 fewer new businesses formed in the United States than the number that failed.
In Wisconsin, over 12,000 firms went out of business in 2009. With them went 103,000 jobs that are never coming back. No amount of seasonal adjustment to monthly BLS job estimates will change that. It is the formation and growth of new businesses that will lift this state and this nation out of the mire.
The fact that 2009 is the most recent data our government has compiled on business formation tells us how little the government monopoly understands about the American economy it has taken upon itself to regulate.
How can a government that still doesn’t know the number of business starts, stops, expansions, and contractions from 2010 expect to regulate the economy in 2012, or enact policies that promote economic growth in 2013? Can any candidate for any office from either party cite a single business formation statistic while he/she is bloviating about jobs and employment?
The government monopoly can’t possibly do a good job of centrally managing a real-time global economy using information that is three years old. And yet, they are about to add health care, energy, and our banking system to the scope of their direct control – how could that possibly turn out well for us?
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The government monopoly can’t possibly do a good job of centrally managing a real-time global economy using information that is three years old.
Nonsense. You just need the right people in charge.
Oh, and you’ll have to keep trying until you get the right people in charge. There could be a few missteps along the way.
- pdwalker | 05/09/2012 @ 06:25