Comments on: Quote of the day

By: HardCorps

HardCorps — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:59:33 +0000

LoL – basically the areas where there isn’t government work the best. Just look how well real wages have done since we completely went off the gold standard in the 1970’s.

By: Lyle

Lyle — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:25:46 +0000

All socialist ideas– some people are suffering, therefore we all have too much freedom. That is the founding principle of all socialist/Marxist/Fascist proposals.

No matter how many times I cut this board, it’s still too short. We will finally be safe once we are stripped of all the best means of defending ourselves, we will get rich as soon as all incentives for creativity, productivity, and voluntary exchange are removed, etc., etc., ad infinitum.

By: Sebastian-PGP

Sebastian-PGP — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:13:35 +0000

Heh yeah…a close second. Well proponents of the WOD tend to say things a little more like “yeah but those drugs are sooooooooooooooo bad so we need to make them illegal”. It’s more ignoring the abject failure of the policy to do anything positive than it is using said failure to argue for more of it…but the war on SOME drugs came to mind for me too.

By: F-Stop

F-Stop — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:57:23 +0000

Beat me to it, Gunstar1.

By: Gunstar1

Gunstar1 — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:38:35 +0000

War on Drugs.

By: Bitter

Bitter — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:44:31 +0000

I was going to say, every social welfare program has been defended that way. Every pork project. Like Robb said, every government program.

By: Robb Allen

Robb Allen — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:55:39 +0000

Unfortunately, that is not true. Practically every complete governmental program failure has the nanny staters clamoring for more of the same.

In there minds, we’re just not trying hard enough.