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

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Government Could Save Billions if it didn't sue Government - The Progressive Avenger Strikes Again

Our enemy governments will never stop suing itself. It steals too much money for government lawyers and bureaucrats. It could also cut down on suits if it would truly be colorblind and quit trying to cover-up for the unqualified and incompetent. 

There are now two sets of laws, one set for Blacks, "Hispanics" and Muslims; then the other for the rest of the US. m/r

The Progressive Avenger Strikes Again by Seth Barron, City Journal 8 April 2014

Mayor de Blasio caves on a spurious—and expensive—discrimination claim.
8 April 2014

New York mayor Bill de Blasio recently threw in the towel on the city’s long fight against a lawsuit seeking back pay for African-Americans and Hispanics who failed the written exam to become city firefighters. The Bloomberg administration fought a seven-year legal battle against the U. S. Justice Department, refusing to accept the stipulation that the city had “intentionally” engineered African-American and Hispanic under-representation in the FDNY. Now, thanks to de Blasio’s decision to settle the suit, taxpayers must cough up close to $100 million in “broad injunctive relief and back pay.”
When the Vulcan Society, the FDNY’s black firefighters association, filed its first complaint against the city in 2002, few minorities worked in the fire department. At the time, African-Americans constituted 25.6 percent of the population of New York City, but only 3.4 percent of the FDNY—a statistic often cited as prima facie evidence of discriminatory hiring practices. Less remarked upon is the overrepresentation of African-Americans in other city agencies. In the Department of Corrections, for instance, 61 percent of personnel are African-American and 18 percent are Latino. Corrections officers are paid at virtually the same scale as firefighters, so there is no economic reason for the discrepancy.
It’s natural to wonder about a test that could produce such skewed results, and which a federal judge ruled had “discriminatory effects on certain minority applicants, including black applicants, and failed to test for relevant job skills.” If the test was intentionally designed to flunk minorities, surely it must have contained absurdly particularized questions meant to screen applicants on cultural knowledge, or exclusionary questions such as might have been found at a Jim-Crow-era poll site? We might expect something like: “The nearest hydrant to the fire is about a chip shot away. What length hose is required?” Or, “Jimmy Donahue noticed that Maggie Shaughnessy was wearing her Claddagh ring on her left hand with the heart pointing outward. Should Jimmy ask Maggie to accompany him to the Holy Name Society’s annual banquet?” Or, “If your spinnaker is torn, which of the following tournaments are you unable to compete in? ...
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