Archive for May, 2009

The Purpose of an Economy

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

Adam Davidson hasn’t a clue:

At the end of the day that’s what an economy is supposed to do. It’s supposed to employ as many people as possible.

To hear it, go here, click the “Listen Now” link, and fast forward to just before the 9-minute mark.

An economy has no purpose unto itself. An economy is an aggregate of individual transactions. It has no “purpose.” It can’t. It simply is.

Adam is assigning purpose where no purpose can exist. His statement is no different than, “the purpose of gravity is to kill people who fall.”

You May Dream Only the Approved Dreams

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

Obama, while introducing Sotomayor as his choice to replace Souter, had the nerve to utter this:

Well, Sonia, what you’ve shown in your life is that it doesn’t matter where you come from, what you look like or what challenges life throws your way, no dream is beyond reach in the United States of America.

I’ve long dreamed of keeping all the money I earn. I dream of living without the compulsion of others’ preferences.

I dream of cannibals walking away from the pot.

“No dream is beyond reach in the United States of America.”

Bullshit.

You Helped Kill It

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Souter, on America, via John Venlet:

“The republic, Souter said, ‘can be lost, it is being lost, it is lost, if it is not understood.’”

Kelo was but a single empirical data point in your complicity, David. You never understood, and you never will.