LIBERALS AND SOCIALISM

Regrettably, though, politicians of all stripes regularly promise “solutions.” The reason is plain. Any politician who speaks honestly of tradeoffs would remind voters that he or she is a mere mortal, one with no more power than a dentist or a taxi driver to feed the multitudes with only five loaves and two fish. And such a reminder puts that politician at a crushing disadvantage against opponents who portray themselves as secular saviors.

When do career politicians who owe their celebrity to taking credit for others’ work and placing blame on us for the failure of their laws, rules, and regulations ever ask themselves: What would an honest man do?

Sen. Nelson’s “answer to America’s energy needs” deserves no more attention than does any such prophecy issued by a Ouija board or by a witch doctor reading the entrails of a rooster.

Saul Alinsky “"A Liberal is [a person] who puts his foot down firmly on thin air.") Society's crisis called for Radicals.

Margaret Thatcher, “the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.”

Jonathan Meades spoke of Thatcher's legacy in Fife: "Fife's mining towns and villages were victims, collateral as they say, of that bloody spat of 25 years ago; - mining might, just might, have been economically exhausted, but it was socially cohesive; it's undeniable that jobs do foment pride, they inculcate an idea of self worth. Finchley was quite incapable of empathy. There is much to be said in favour of inefficient industry, not least that that the human cost of efficiency and adherence to the bottom line does not have to be paid, - nor for that matter does unemployment benefit have to be paid to the tens of thousands rationalised into involuntary idleness. Further, the Finchley faith, which became the enthusiastically adopted cross-party consensus of the past 25 years, the faith that manufacturing industry was an irrelevance, and that an entire economy, a soufflé economy, might be founded on the no-holds-barred selflessness of deregulated debt rights, peddling expensive money, proved to be just that, a faith, an expression of unfounded wishfulness."

"...the educated strata are more gullible than the less educated. The most enthusiastic supporters of Marxism, Nazism, and Fascism were the intellectuals, not the [blue collar folks]."

-- Ludwig von Mises, Brilliant Austrian economist