Interests and irritations to a guy on a red horse.
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
By
Christine DiGangi
You’re probably going to die with some debt to your name. Most people
do. In fact, 73% of consumers had outstanding debt when they were
reported as dead, according to December 2016 data provided to Credit.com
by credit bureau Experian. Those consumers carried an average total
balance of $61,554, including mortgage debt. Without home loans, the
average balance was $12,875.
The data is based on Experian’s FileOne database, which includes
220 million consumers. (There are about 242 million adults in the U.S.,
according to 2015 estimates from the Census Bureau.) Among the 73% of
consumers who had debt when they died, about 68% had credit card
balances. The next most common kind of debt was mortgage debt (37%),
followed by auto loans (25%), personal loans (12%) and student loans
(6%).
These were the average unpaid balances: credit cards, $4,531;
auto loans, $17,111; personal loans, $14,793; and student loans,
$25,391.
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