Thought for the Day
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The gist is that many think a simple minded law is going to stop real criminals or terrorists with a simple understanding of chemistry. Black powder can be easily made by anyone from very common ingredients as can many other explosives.
This may come as a shock, but criminals and terrorists don't obtain weapons and explosives through normal channels because it increases their chance of detection. They aren't going to play the game by the rules.
Last edited by jungle; 05-09-2013 at 08:36 AM.
#122
Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.
#123
Government student loans are to university payrolls as quantitative easing is to stock prices.
Warren Meyer
Warren Meyer
#125
"Americans are happy to thank the volunteer soldiers who make it possible for them not to serve, and deem it is somehow unpatriotic to call their armed forces to task when things go awry."
#126
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Re: Thought for the Day
The work of Alan Greenspan and other unethical economists has cost us trillions of dollars, millions of jobs and endless suffering.
by William Black
How Elite Economic Hucksters Drive America’s Biggest Fraud Epidemics
by William Black
Alan Greenspan was Ayn Rand’s protégé, but he moved radically to the wacky side of Rand on the issue of financial fraud. And that, friends, is pretty wacky...
At the heart of Greenspan’s failure lies an ethical void in the brand of economics that has dominated American universities and policy circles for the last several decades, a brand known as “free market fundamentalism” or the “neoclassical school.” (I call it “theoclassical economics” for its quasi-religious belief system.)
Mainstream economists who follow this school assert a deeply flawed and controversial concept known as the “efficient market hypothesis,” which holds that financial markets magically regulate themselves (they automatically “self-correct”) and are thus immune to fraud. When an economist starts believing in that kind of fallacy, he is bound to become blind to reality...
At the heart of Greenspan’s failure lies an ethical void in the brand of economics that has dominated American universities and policy circles for the last several decades, a brand known as “free market fundamentalism” or the “neoclassical school.” (I call it “theoclassical economics” for its quasi-religious belief system.)
Mainstream economists who follow this school assert a deeply flawed and controversial concept known as the “efficient market hypothesis,” which holds that financial markets magically regulate themselves (they automatically “self-correct”) and are thus immune to fraud. When an economist starts believing in that kind of fallacy, he is bound to become blind to reality...
#127
“The need to slough off the outworn old to make possible the productive new is universal. It is reasonably certain that we would still have stagecoaches—nationalized, to be sure, heavily subsidized, and with a fantastic research program to “retrain the horse”—had there been ministries of transportation around 1825.”
~Peter Drucker
~Peter Drucker
#128
Keef says
"The whole business thing is predicated a lot on the tax laws. It's why we rehearse in Canada and not in the U.S. A lot of our astute moves have been basically keeping up with tax laws, where to go, where not to put it. Whether to sit on it or not. We left England because we'd be paying 98 cents on the dollar. We left, and they lost out. No taxes at all.”
Keith Richards
Keith Richards
#129
The Servile Mind
"The essence of the servile mind is the readiness to accept external direction in exchange for being relieved of the burden of a set of virtues such as thrift, self‑control, prudence, and indeed civility itself."
Kenneth Minogue
Kenneth Minogue
#130
more food for thought
We the great unwashed fight battles for old men and die in the land of the ungrateful.
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