Carrots and Sticks

[MSimon]

The only way government can accomplish anything is with sticks and stolen carrots.

Who do you want to steal from to accomplish your goal? Who do you want beaten with sticks?

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. - H. L. Mencken

from:

http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/200 ... to-do.html

I do find the faith in government guns as a viable solution to social problems interesting. It always starts out with turn the guns on the other guy and then goes bad from there. And always the refrain "This time it will be different." Yeah. Right.

from:

http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/200 ... -find.html