Posts Tagged ‘ QOTW ’

Quote of the week

There was a third group in Conservative student politics, those who who followed the the traditionzal agenda of the parties right wing. They had no time for libertarian ideas and favoured a more authoritarian outlook to shape society as it they thought it should be. … For some reason we never discovered this group...
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What’s happened in the UK is we’ve ended up with a monoculture around the Plc as a dominant form of ownership,” says Mayfield. “If you’re an entrepreneur and looking to sell your business, an adviser would be very unlikely to suggest any kind of co-operative model. If you suggested it, they would probably tell...
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‘It is here that one can most ferociously blame Fed Chairmen Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke, and their decade and more of irresponsibly cheap money. By distorting price signals throughout the economy, and producing burst bubble after burst bubble without any significant improvement in living standards except at the very top, they have not...
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The point though, surely, is that there may not be a next time. This next presidency is it: the Big One; the one that will decide whether America – and by extent the free West – gets to climb out of the Depression and spend a few more decades in the sun, or whether...
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Two quotes from the same article by Toby Young: My political philosophy can be summed up in the words of Grover Norquist, the founder of Americans for Tax Reform. “I don’t want to abolish government,” he said. “I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it in to the...
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More government means less community. The horizontal ties, which bind people to each other, have slowly been replaced with vertical ties, which seek to bind individuals to the state. Society is weakened by this, because the government does a very bad job. And high taxes undermine philanthropic intention, and community action. The sheet vanity...
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in a free society, people will fuck up, fail, and have a shit time. they still do in our over-governed society as well... it's just that everyone has to tolerate a massive loss of freedom in our current situation.
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