Re: Hee! Hee! Hee!

On Nov 14, 3:55 pm, ChrisQ <m...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Joel Koltner wrote:
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Here's a more current example:
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2009/11/11/stimulus_fund_job_...

Basically: The number of jobs reportedly due to stimulus spending is highly
inaccurate... and generally errors on the "far too high" side.

These are typical. This is how government works.

OK, but I'm not convinced private industry is that much better. The article
states that the errors were generally from people who didn't understand the
instructions -- not attempts to knowingly fabricate "positive" results -- and
I can tell you from first hand experience that this happens all the time in
the private sector. Things like, e.g., private hospital patient databases
tend to be completely riddled with errors.

It's not a bad beast--it has its uses--you just don't want that beast
everywhere doing everything. That *is* bad.

No argument there.

---Joel

The key difference between government and business is the the latter is
*unelected*, while the government *is* and is why the power of business
must be curtailed to prevent it from doing stuff against the interests
of the common good, rather than the shareholder minority.

That's a great point, but exactly wrong. Business is elected every
day, as people prefer the products and services they provide with
their money, or not.


By the same token, if you get a bad govenment, that's the citizens fault
for not being awake and for not ensuring that the right people get
elected.

The problem being that the government runs the schools, badly.

Awareness? Why, Mr. Koltner's told us he never even had civics. How
is he then equipped to rebut or even resist the "general welfare"
fallacy, or other specious arguments of politics and economics?

And if he's in that predicament, imagine the 1/3rd of our population
that doesn't even graduate high school...

The old saying that people get the government they deserve is
probably not far off as well :-)...

We are at that stage predicted by Tyler roughly 200 years ago:

"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that
voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts
from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority
always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits
from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy
will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy [...]"

--
Cheers,
James Arthur
.

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