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

Saturday, October 19, 2013

Did You Know How UpsideDown New York City Really Is? Enter Stage Left

The last time I saw a concert in Carnegie Hall, it was an unfortunate experience. The concert was at best mediocre, apparently the performers did not practice, practice, practice. From the sad assault to the front of me, a child was assaulting my seat with kick from the rear. I had to agree with the child's boredom, but what were the parent's thinking by bringing their 'little darling' to a Baroque Music Concert in the first place, and allowing the onslaught to the back of my seat even after my chiding? The state of the new lib-parenting is another story, but it fits here, where the children terrorize the parents in Carnegie Hall. 

Oh, by the way, those stage hands at that crummy concert make an average of $400,000 per year. That is as Nuts as the Federal Government! m/r

Enter Stage Left by Nicole Gelinas - City Journal

The Carnegie Hall stagehands’ victory is emblematic of New York City’s labor problems.
17 October 2013
How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. How do you create a new union job at Carnegie Hall in a time of nonprofit austerity? Exploit upper-class fears of looking unfriendly to the working class.
Earlier this month, the 57th Street institution was forced to cancel its fall season-opening concert because of a stagehand strike. The five members of Local One of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, who make an average of more than $400,000 annually, weren’t protesting a pay cut or reduced pension or health benefits. They were objecting to Carnegie Hall’s plan to open a separate educational concert space without hiring union stagehands to staff it. The workers characterized Carnegie Hall’s position—that educating students is a different business than putting on public concerts—as union-busting. Two days later, the concert schedule was back on and both sides were declaring victory, but the winner was Local One. Carnegie Hall will hire a union stagehand for the new space and more “if needed,” according to the New York Times.
Why didn’t Carnegie Hall fight? After all, it had the facts on its side.
Even in New York City, total compensation of nearly half a million dollars is a lot of money. 
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