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...
“People who know how to create [wealth] are free to do so.” That’s good enough for a bumper sticker.
More on the same subject: Bias for Inaction (hat tip again to blogger friend Gerard). Rhyms With Girls and Cars is invoking an argument to which I’ve long been hostile, that repealing the filibuster to make it easier to “get things done” is a fool’s errand…
At face value, one can only interpret such caring to indicate that the carers passionately want the Senate to be constantly doing stuff. If the Senate isn’t doing stuff, or is thwarted from doing as much stuff as a majority of it seemingly would like to, that’s something akin to a tragedy and certain people just can’t abide it. Why, the Senate could be doing more stuff – writing more laws and regulations, handing out more pork and earmarks – and it’s not! Ipso facto, reform is needed – say some people.
Sonic Charmer‘s position on this is not quite gelled, nor is mine. I don’t necessarily want the Senate to be doing more stuff, I want the majority party, whoever it might be, to establish a stronger ownership of the results for good or for ill. And I have to admit, in the last year or so, I have been very happy to see the filibuster in place. But it didn’t stop ObamaCare…it just seems to perpetuate the “is not is too” aspect of our republic that so many others find loathsome.
Ultimately, it allows those who promote bad policies — you can tell from watching the video I have found worth embedding, which side I think that is — to claim that their policies are not bad, and that the opposing position is not good. It gives them a bunch of stuff that looks like firm, robust evidence, which they can then use as weapons.
Which brings us back to Sowell, who at segment 2, time index 5:29 says “when the House of Representatives is in the hands of the opposite party, I don’t know how any President can take any credit for…whether there’s a surplus or not.”
This is the key to putting the electorate in a good place to figure out what policies are good and what ones are not…which, in turn, is vital for seeing some good decisions made in the years ahead. What needs to happen is that the supports get knocked out from under the democrats, under the Keynesians, the hippies, the tree-huggers, the neo-communists. So that the spirit of the country is aligned with the objective of seeing to it that the people who know how to create wealth, are free to do so. There’s nothing else on God’s green earth that’s gonna get us out of this mess.
And that, in turn, is a problem much simpler than the way we envision it. People are not going to stop voting for democrats when a Republican is made to look more wonderful, or more dignified, or like he has a happier marriage or that he has contributed more meaningful service in time of war. None of those things address what’s really broken. What’s broken is that we have been looking at things that don’t work, as if they work, and vice-versa.
Make it okay to make money, and people will. Then they’ll get more work than they can handle and they’ll start hiring other people.
That’s the way it’s supposed to work…right?
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