tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post3128606083350522200..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Presidential Leadership 101Stuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-27296034079113479892020-04-20T16:43:32.128-07:002020-04-20T16:43:32.128-07:00One thing that is clear amidst the current madness...One thing that is clear amidst the current madness is the totalitarian impulse — made manifest — in Democrats with executive authority.<br /><br />I know. I live under the Directorate of Michigan under Governess Gretchen Whitmer. My Mother always told me to fear an angry woman with power. That’s what I’m living with: arbitrary, capricious and vindictive. One nasty beast!<br /><br />I encourage all of you to take what you’re seeing and super-impose the press reaction to what Republican Governors would be doing under a Democrat Administration. <br /><br />The Fourth Estate is absolutely PATHETIC. The First Amendment covers politically-correct activists only. Facebook says so. Free speech is for “Correct” speech. <br /><br />Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-91991817204222503142020-04-20T16:20:07.553-07:002020-04-20T16:20:07.553-07:00Schlaes is excellent. I’m listening to “The Great...Schlaes is excellent. I’m listening to “The Great Society” now on Audible. <br /><br />“The Forgotten Man” is outstanding. I love her quoting of William Graham Sumner — prescient in out times:<br /><br />“As soon as A observes something which seems to him wrong, from which X is suffering, A talks it over with B, and A and B then propose to get a law passed to remedy the evil and help X. Their law always proposes to determine what C shall do for X, or, in better case, what A, B, and C shall do for X... What I want to do is to look up C. I want to show you what manner of man he is. I call him the Forgotten Man. perhaps the appellation is not strictly correct. he is the man who never is thought of.... I call him the forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays—but he always pays..."<br /><br />Indeed. That’s where the TEA Party came from: Taxed Enough Already.<br /><br />Ubu: Government “creates jobs.” Didn’t you know? Give credit where credit is due... tsk-tsk.Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-29172133286402510712020-04-20T07:57:07.351-07:002020-04-20T07:57:07.351-07:00Business earns the money. Government spends the mo...Business earns the money. Government spends the money. Any attempt to build an economy without accepting this premise will falter and fail. Contempt for business is a contempt for the pursuit of happiness. So many pursuits of happiness that the human intellect simply cannot account for them all--and shouldn't try. Pursue your own and let the other guy pursue his; form alliances when natural interests dovetail. Hayak was spot on that no amount of central planning can do what the vast army of individual men and women can do without their "help." UbuMaccabeenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-55639301096828355722020-04-20T06:22:50.151-07:002020-04-20T06:22:50.151-07:00I agree with AOC and her hero, Friedrich Krugman. ...I agree with AOC and her hero, Friedrich Krugman. Poverty is caused by billionaires, racism, and zeenyphobia.trigger warningnoreply@blogger.com