tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890852736639676808.post1082961603617920882..comments2024-01-13T07:38:36.064-05:00Comments on Target Liberty: The Gospel According To GruberRobert Wenzelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14296920597416905488noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890852736639676808.post-60331365067289038972014-11-18T12:41:40.674-05:002014-11-18T12:41:40.674-05:00BTW - the egg came first. The chicken was simply t...BTW - the egg came first. The chicken was simply the eggs response to a hostile environment.Brian Ericksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10188778202762603278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890852736639676808.post-56954500963413585042014-11-18T12:13:21.584-05:002014-11-18T12:13:21.584-05:00Brian, how is this discussion not a motivator? We&...Brian, how is this discussion not a motivator? We're specifically talking about how some actor on behalf of the government was paid huge sums of money to lie to the public and push authoritarian legislation through. Now everyone associated with him is backpedalling about how he was involved. It is an epic cluster-f*ck. Exposing this activity educates people. This exposure creates action. Cory Bricknerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04615059918614218841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890852736639676808.post-68065778571522912572014-11-18T02:00:36.716-05:002014-11-18T02:00:36.716-05:00As you can tell, I do enjoy a good discussion but ...As you can tell, I do enjoy a good discussion but I recognize that it is nothing more than self indulgent entertainment. Even when a discussion is formalized as a lecture or written down in book form and labeled education it is still nothing more than words on a page. Ideas that have been floating around since man began to speak. Stories from our past, like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde or "the Brian Ericksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10188778202762603278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890852736639676808.post-41007826724788871922014-11-17T17:43:07.948-05:002014-11-17T17:43:07.948-05:00Well Brian that is the problem. This is the slippe...Well Brian that is the problem. This is the slippery slope of individualism vs. authoritarianism. Most people, rightfully so, take the easy way out. That is human nature. It becomes a chicken-egg scenario. Just like Thomas Jefferson thought, the further power goes away from the individual, the easier it is to subjugate the people. The more you depend on someone else to do it for you, the more youCory Bricknerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04615059918614218841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890852736639676808.post-84498065848994611122014-11-17T16:21:14.675-05:002014-11-17T16:21:14.675-05:00"It is not the market that causes these probl..."It is not the market that causes these problems, it is the government trying to end-run the market and hide the true costs from the public. Until we stop doing that, we're going to have huge distortions that manifest in unpredictable ways. The history of health care is just one example of many." Couldn't agree more with you Cory. The challenge is that the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Brian Ericksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10188778202762603278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890852736639676808.post-33814315998170163002014-11-17T13:52:13.808-05:002014-11-17T13:52:13.808-05:00A better "program" down the road would b...A better "program" down the road would be no program. Herein lies the fallacy that you yourself fall for. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7pqRjHQ9BU&feature=youtu.be<br /><br />Firstly, there is the true ignorance of what health "insurance" actually is. Insurance is a "causality" coverage based on specific events. Your premium is based on individual factors Cory Bricknerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04615059918614218841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890852736639676808.post-3849396644657045452014-11-17T12:50:13.626-05:002014-11-17T12:50:13.626-05:00Thanks for pointing this out Anonymous @ 11:43am. ...Thanks for pointing this out Anonymous @ 11:43am. Right, knowledge is not enough. When you're playing a game where every piece of knowledge is manipulated and slight-of-handed it's not the stupidity of the American people: it's the fact that they are being misled. Getting facts straight requires effort and time. Take the JFK assassination as one instance. Whether Gruber's Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890852736639676808.post-24100157120151226692014-11-17T11:53:05.459-05:002014-11-17T11:53:05.459-05:00Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective w...Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.<br /><br />-H.L. Mencken Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14220765443849396111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890852736639676808.post-13235886559957655352014-11-17T11:43:13.903-05:002014-11-17T11:43:13.903-05:00The amount of knowledge has been growing exponenti...The amount of knowledge has been growing exponentially for some time. No one, and I mean no one, is capable of knowing everything. I worked in a financial institution which served teachers. The staff was astounded at the lack of financial finesse of the teachers. These teachers were very smart in many things... just not everything. Being stupid vs uninformed or mislead are completely Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890852736639676808.post-19089476534826742582014-11-17T10:34:45.982-05:002014-11-17T10:34:45.982-05:00I read the other day that 18% of Americans polled ...I read the other day that 18% of Americans polled believe the sun revolves around the earth, among other disheartening things:<br /><br />http://www.gallup.com/poll/3742/new-poll-gauges-americans-general-knowledge-levels.aspx<br /><br />It's not just the fallacy that democracy is great and all these people should get an opportunity to vote/tell all of us what to do, it's that those Nick Badalamentihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14015961786370759940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890852736639676808.post-12154689799836993392014-11-17T07:54:46.313-05:002014-11-17T07:54:46.313-05:00
Only 36 percent of Americans can name the three ...<br /><br />Only 36 percent of Americans can name the three branches of government<br /><br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/09/18/only-36-percent-of-americans-can-name-the-three-branches-of-government/<br /><br />Someone tell me again, why is it that democracy is so wonderful?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14220765443849396111noreply@blogger.com