The Ponderosa: "Economics" Night at the DNC

Death before Dhimmitude

Energy Independence

Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?

--Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

"Economics" Night at the DNC

Without looking because we don't have to ... and there's baseball on ...

We are in a recession (We are not. GDP +3.3% in Q2.)
Oil companies suck.
Pharmaceutical companies suck.
Insurance companies suck.
Most other profit-seeking ventures suck (they might make exceptions for pornographers and abortionists)
If you signed an ill-advised mortgage or purchased one too many LCD TVs on your credit cards you are the victim of predatory lenders ... who suck.
Rich people -- Hollywood types, back-cover-of-the-Yellow Pages lawyers and Kennedys excepted -- suck.
Only the superior intellect and pure heart of Obama, flaccid friend of unrepentant terrorists and product of Chicago machine politics, can properly organize an $11.7 trillion dollar (Y2000 dollars) economy ... despite never having held a real job.
If you disagree with that last point, YOU suck.

"Change" sure sounds familiar.

The Ponderosa

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

"Economics" Night at the DNC

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