A response.
This is the sort of thing I was referring to when I said that Democrats and the left are anti-economics.
Category Archives: Economics
A Letter To The Marching Morons
From David Freddoso:
Those people you left stuck in traffic have a hard time paying their bills and rents and health insurance and mortgages. They worry about things like finding decent schools for their children to attend and making sure they don’t get fired at work, and fixing leaking roofs and chimneys.
You know what they don’t worry about, ever? Smashing patriarchy and capitalism.
So when your organizers go on television and say things like, “It’s revolution, not reform!” and they’re not joking, those words might give some of these narrow-minded people an unpleasant, October 1917 kind of feeling.
Read all.
[Late-morning update]
The pathology of capitalism, new and improved with trutherism.
Who Is More Anti-Science?
Republicans, or Democrats?
My biggest problem with Democrats is that they’re anti-economics, with devastating results over the past decades.
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[Update a while later]
Speaking of Republicans being anti-science, I don’t agree with Herman Cain that being gay is “a choice.” Being straight was never a “choice” for me.
The Era Of Free Stuff
…is over.
I think this is a good thing. A lot of people hate a la carte pricing, but when you bundle things, there are no signals as to what the real demand for various goods and services are. Also, I don’t like subsidizing other people for stuff that I don’t need.
Health, Wealth And Aging
Some thoughts from Sonia Arrison.
Quitting The Euro
Thoughts from Daniel Hannan.
More Shuttlyndra Thoughts
…over at Open Market.
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Mike Griffin inadvertently explains why we don’t need a heavy-lift vehicle.
The Debit Card
Did Chris Dodd and Barney Frank kill it?
Tar. Feathers.
The Smart
…and the dumb:
The president’s reaction? “He turned to me and said, ‘Oil and gas will be important for the next few years. But we need to go on to green and alternative energy. [Energy] Secretary [Steven] Chu has assured me that within five years, we can have a battery developed that will make a car with the equivalent of 130 miles per gallon.’” Mr. Hamm holds his head in his hands and says, “Even if you believed that, why would you want to stop oil and gas development? It was pretty disappointing.”
I guess I’d be disappointed, if I had had any expectations of brilliance on his part. But I never had any reason to, other than the bien pensant telling me I should.
Shuttlyndra
My thoughts on the latest (or repeating) crony-capitalism boondoggle, over at Pajamas Media.