Quaestor Fidelis: The System

Potent Quotables (updated periodically)

"If you like sausages and laws, you should never watch either one of them being made." -- Otto von Bismarck
"God who gave us life, gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever." -- Thomas Jefferson
"The best way to prove a stick is crooked is to lay a straight one beside it" -- FW Boreham
"There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, 'There you are' and those who say, 'Here I am'" -- Abigail Van Buren
"It was not political rhetoric, mass rallies or poses of moral indignation that gave the people a better life. It was capitalism." -- Thomas Sowell

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

The System

Two things: first a video then a brief but excellent article.

I'm not a frequent viewer of the Daily Show, but it occasionally piques my interest and vibrates my humerus. Sometimes I find it too left leaning, but this blurb was funny and seems to hit the nail on the head in terms of what we American taxpayers are getting in return for our cash lately.

I think this video is also indicative of our culture (at least our entertainment culture) finally coming around and realizing that there are some questions worth asking our government and that its judgement is suspect, even with Obama at the helm. There seems to be a fickleness at work here that may actually prove useful in turning the country back to a more logical sense of direction versus the current path of social dependency.

Now for that article which has to do with the nature of capitalism and why it works to diversify risk absorbed by the overall economy (that means you): readme