Solution to botched regulation: more regulation!
They couldn't get things right the first time, so the answer is just to create MORE mandates.
Stupidity is expecting different outcomes from the same inputs. Gross Stupidity just adds Government to the above.
Stupidity is expecting different outcomes from the same inputs. Gross Stupidity just adds Government to the above.
While the word stupidity fits perfectly into your quote, the actual quote from Benjamin Franklin is, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing year after year and expecting different results" I add this only to give proper credit and to show that Benjamin Franklin was way ahead of his time.
Fred Speckmann
commonsenseforamericans@yahoo.com
With interest piling up, we'll hit $19T even faster. Wheeee!
Talk to a lib about this and see him shrug. So what?
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
"What, me worry?"
-- Alfred E. Neuman
- "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
;)
to a C when I begged to differ with the prof ... when
he said that the u.s. federal debt could be wiped out
with a single action, without an effect on the health
of the national economy. . I also said that J.M.Keynes
was wrong. . that was in the late 70s;;; just think
what they're teaching now! -- j
who would be affected by wiping out the debt
would not be hurt . . . and there I was, owning some
savings bonds, thinking about international creditors
declaring war -- and he was an ORNL employee
of some note. . I was totally grossed out. -- j
Yep, love those economists... they always know the truth and the future.. :)
Probably the same experts that maligned variously: saturated fats, red meat, high fructose corn syrup, sugar, carbohydrates, fat in general, cholesterol, blah, blah blah. While the good foods similarly rotated 360 degrees. The problem this time is they are writing rules, not just insisting on labels.
Now there will be a lobby of zealots seeking to control these rules to require locally grown foods and ban safe, less expensive, highly nutritious genetically modified foods. Perhaps they'll also ban, nuts, dairy and gluten.
And if you've kept up with some recent research and studies on salt in our diets, it's only really bad if you're hypertensive and overload on it. Ever see a bunch of dead deer lying around a salt lick?
Silly humans...
My Cousin was a blood specialist at UW Madison. PHD in nutritional absorbtion of some type.
She has a peculiar derivation of Crohn's.
We have been discussing the ramifications of Genetically Modified Grains. One of our mutual hypotheses.....Original "Heritage" grains consist of 15 to 18 chromosomes. The GMO grains consist of mid to upper 40's in chromosomal structure. The rapid change of complexity may be contributing to the reticence of the body to fully break down and digest the material. We end up passing through "filler". A body that knows it is stressed or starving will start to store everything it can in energy "fat". Obesity. Wondering if we have a few biochemists in the Gulch with any exposure here.
[kidding]
Oh! You don't have a sarcastic font lock keyboard either! Almost missed that.
Dogs have more chromosomes than humans... does that explain their exceptional vocabulary or math skills?
C'mon.... Correlation is sometimes =/= ANYTHING... :)
BLOOMBERG School of...?! Hey, that was almost subtle, dontchathink? :)
http://www.plusaf.com/falklaws.htm#33rd
Falk's Thirty-Third Law:
"The Only Criterion for putting a Tax on something is that the "something" must be Measurable. No other reason is necessary."
You will never find any other explanation which explains so rationally and succinctly why anything is taxed.
If it can be measured, it's a target for someone in Government to find a justification to tax it.
Remember the Boston Tea Party? "Taxation Without Representation"?
Now consider the Inheritance Tax. [a.k.a., "Estate Taxes"] ...
If that's not the ultimate "Taxation Without Representation," what is?
When they want something, they threaten to remove the food program - our school systems are junkies on the food program and need to get a backbone and stop, either providing their own or otherwise cutting off the money the Federal government gives.
However, that's something the Federal government is now prepared for with increased power over testing, threat of loss of other Federal monies; not hollow accusations - it's been done, many times - check yourself.
If ever the "villains" of Rand's novels have a real life counterpart it is the well-meaning Federal education organizations.
NO one sees themselves as the bad guy.
They all do what they do for good reasons, even if it is circumvent our Constitution.
I have an objection to describing "Federal education organizations" as well-meaning.
I think that it is very evident that they use good EXCUSES (and promises never fulfilled) to propagate their power and ideology and find reasons to grow in size (more bureaucrats) and cost (ignore the $18T debt).
Just my opinion.
All the best.
We all do. We don't paint ourselves as the bad guy.
Certainly they don't.
"Well-meaning" = with good intentions, regardless of the actual outcome.
We might utterly oppose those goals, but I doubt even a single socialist or fascist ever sees themselves as "ill-intentioned" when they seek the overthrow of a government or to increase their power so they can "make a difference".
We're on the same page, Maritimus, regarding the wrong direction Federal authorities are taking us at present.
But I think even when they lie to us and deceive us, they're saying to themselves, "It's necessary and for the good of all."
How many well-intentioned people have later been revealed as war criminals and worse?
Even outright criminals often consider themselves as "the victims" just getting back at society for hurting them.
I get tired of the excuses as well.
Keep speaking up!
We do not need more regulation we need for those civil servants to just go and find real jobs. They don't understand that it is not possible to actually train a cat, and the general population is developing more and more cat personalities.