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

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Sports Stadia are Big Government-Big Corporation Fascism at the Cost of Public Funds

Team Owners reap (rape) all the benefits with little cost. m/r
Sports Stadiums Are Bad Public Investments. So Why Are Cities Still Paying for Them? - YouTube

 Mar 17, 2015
"Anybody that drives around Southern California can tell you the infrastructure is falling apart," says Joel Kotkin, a fellow of urban studies at Chapman University and author of the book The New Class Conflict. "And then we’re going to give money so a bunch of corporate executives can watch a football game eight times a year? It’s absurd." 

John Oliver Thinks Public Money for Sports Stadiums Sucks Too

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Oliver highlighted the ridiculous amount of public money being paid
by cities to billionaire sports owners to build new stadiums on Sunday’s
"Last Week Tonight"—noting that between 2000 and 2010, cities have paid over $12 billion for 51 new sports facilities.
Part of the reason stadiums are so expensive to build these days is
due in part to the insane luxury features owners are adding. As Oliver
remarks, stadium designs have gotten so opulent that they "look like
they were designed by a coked-up Willy Wonka."

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