CORPORATISM AND FASCISM: This is a big problem with no easy solutions.
DEBLASIO AND OBAMA: This guy has the feel of a white Obama. NYC is in for an interesting time while another community organizer type with no leadership credentials takes the helm. At least Bloomberg understood some basics like fighting crime, and attempting serious educational reform based on shaking up the unions.
WISE WORDS: James Madison in Federalist #62 anticipated Obamacare and the geniuses promoting it.
The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessing of liberty itself. It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be tomorrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?
Another effect of public instability is the unreasonable advantage it gives to the sagacious, the enterprising, and the moneyed few over the industrious and uniformed mass of the people. Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue, or in any way affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to those who watch the change, and can trace its consequences; a harvest, reared not by themselves, but by the toils and cares of the great body of their fellow-citizens. This is a state of things in which it may be said with some truth that laws are made for the few, not for the many.
A little common sense and humility goes a long way.
COULD IT BE SAID ANY BETTER THAN THIS?: "As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and complete narcissistic moron." ~ H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920. We've arrived...
COULD IT BE SAID ANY BETTER THAN THIS?: "As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and complete narcissistic moron." ~ H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920. We've arrived...
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