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

Monday, February 4, 2013

Buried Always by Time Thieves - The Republic of Paperwork

Bureaucrats feed us new form after new form added to the old ones that add nothing but the weight of paper that no one will read, that is unless some prosecutor is ambitious. Bureaucrats are the engines of growing darkness, ever denser, the black holes in society. They suck at all productivity and steal precious time and treasure. They produce more paper for paper sake, that's because that is all they do. So they are under the delusion that it is productive and the more they produce the better... for them. Thus they are menacing thieves that suck away all time and real production. m/r

The Republic of Paperwork - By Mark Steyn - The Corner - National Review Online

By Mark Steyn
February 3, 2013 - full short post
You’ll recall George McGovern’s post-politics career as a Connecticut innkeeper. Over at Slate, Matthew Yglesias is undergoing his own McGovern moment:

Starting a Business Is a Huge Pain

I’ve been to three offices, filed five forms, spent $200, lost a day of work—and I’m not even close to getting the simple license I need.

In an ever more sclerotic America, government at every level throws too many obstacles in the path of its citizens for the economy to return to anything approaching meaningful growth.

And all poor old Yglesias wants to do is rent out his condo.
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