The Problem Is Us

[Jccarlton]

It's time to stop letting the trolls fling there screwy ideas and ignorance around like monkey poo. It's time to get our freedom back.
Money quote:
"The role that voters and their representatives have assigned government over the past seven or eight decades is the role, ultimately, of smothering aspiration and achievement. We? Achieve? That’s for “the 1 percent”! They’ll do all the heavy lifting — until there’s no more 1 percent left to lift, or even a .000000001 percent, aspiration and invention having been effectively outlawed by the tax code, the EPA, Dodd-Frank, and heaven knows what else."
http://spectator.org/archives/2013/10/0 ... isnt-obama
The problem is that when you punish the innovative and creative, when you wrap creativity and entrepreneurship in millions of petty rules and taxes, making it almost impossible to make it you end up destroying the very things that make life prosperous.

[Schneibster]

The Koch brothers are the ones that bought an economics department to spew their propaganda. Chicago specifically.

http://www.economicprincipals.com/issue ... /1314.html

They brought a bunch of "moderate" Nazis. In other words they didn't believe in gassing people and burning them, just in shooting them until they all run away. Hayek and von Mises specifically. Milton Friedman never really liked them, but he couldn't help but be influenced to his cost.

http://utip.gov.utexas.edu/papers/Colla ... ivered.pdf

Monetarism is dead. And that's the Friedman memorial lecture. The death of freshwater economics announced in Ohio at the very Milton Friedman Monetarist Memorial Lecture. I mean, seriously,

>muted trumpet<
Wah wah wah waaaaaaahhhhhhh.
>/muted trumpet<
>graphic of a hose, with the water going down and the hose drooping further and further and the dude's face who's holding it falling further and further<

But they're still pretending.