Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Friday, December 14, 2012

Rules From Radicals - Prepare for the Worst from tiny little worthless minds who are paid to invade you like maggots

Look again to 1848, but with a hope for better results. m/r

The American Spectator : Prepare for the Worst

By  from the DECEMBER 2012 issue
We will soon suffer the death, or at least the crippling, of a thousand regulatory cuts.

from the middle: ...

We will soon suffer the death, or at least the crippling, of a thousand regulatory cuts.
A 2011 report by investment bank UBS entitled “Great Suppression II” describes a “Revolt of the Employers” based more on regulation than on government debt levels, with high individual and corporate income tax rates piling on further dead weight.
A tsunami of further regulation that was being held back by the EPA, the Department of Health and Human Services (particularly aspects of Obamacare implementation), and other executive agencies is now being released following Barack Obama’s re-election. Strangely, knowing the regulations would be wildly unpopular with voters does not translate, in this administration, into considering them actually bad policy.
We are already seeing the beginning of Great Suppression III, with franchisees and restaurant chains like Papa John’s, Applebee’s, andDarden (which owns the Olive Garden, Red Lobster, and Longhorn Steakhouse chains, among others) announcing that they will hire fewer workers, cut the hours of the workers they have, and avoid building new restaurants to dodge the Obamacare cost bullet.
Auto parts manufacturer Dana Corp. announced layoffs in order to “offset increased costs that are placed on us through new laws and regulations,” noting specifically that Obamacare “is expected to cost Dana approximately $24 million over the next six years in additional U.S. health care expenses.” Medical device makers Welch Allyn, Boston Scientific, and Medtronic are among many in that industry laying off workers because of the remarkably ill-conceived medical device tax embedded in Obamacare.
The irony was probably lost on radical leftist heiress Pat Stryker when the company her grandfather founded, Stryker Corporation, announced that Obamacare will force it to fire 96 people in December. And that’s just the beginning: 
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