Posted on 06/27/2012 5:17:15 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican
“Eat the Rich” will be the only book on economics you will ever need.
’ “Freedom in not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It’s not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It’s not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the “right” to health care, the “right” to food and housing. That’s not freedom, that’s dependency. Those aren’t rights, those are the rations of slavery - hay and a barn for human cattle.”
— P.J. O’Rourke’
BRILLIANT!!!
Quoted again for truth. Because it's just how business get done in D.C. One of my pet grievances against our system...I do have a few. :)
Ah...wish I could use that quote as a tagline, but it’s too darned long...
Pat
The problem is not that those elected to Congress are necessarily inherently criminal, any more than businessmen are.
The system we have set up ensures that corruption, a term which if of course difficult to define precisely, will take place. Politicians who do not participate will not be elected or will lose re-election, and businessmen who refuse to take part for ethical reasons will likely be fired when their stand causes their companies to lose out on potential advantages.
So the problem is systemic, not one of human frailty.
The answer, of course, is to remove government from economic activity as much as possible. This will remove incentives for businessmen to try to influence government, and removes the mechanism by which politicians essentially extort money from business.
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