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Posted in Government Gone Wild, Politics on Oct 22nd, 2009
Perhaps I’ll honor Henry Hazlitt with this series. Here was Hazlitt’s Economic lesson: The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups. What is […]
Posted in Corporatism, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Oct 22nd, 2009
Most teachers not only take government money, they rely solely on government money for their livelihoods. And there are a good portion of teachers who look out for “short-term” gains on a quarter by quarter basis rather than looking out for the long-term interests of their schools and their students. Really. Think back to your […]
Posted in Flotsam and Jetsam on Oct 22nd, 2009
HT from one of my students, Chad H. In class, Rizzo asked us to compare the amount of deaths due to the accident at Chernobyl and the amount of deaths inflicted by Communist rule in the USSR. He then asked why there is such a difference in the way we react to each. The amount […]
