William M. Davenport

The context of that sentiment is through an equal opportunity to earn.  Government redistribution is neither fair nor frugal. 

I like the Constitution and can’t suffer fools.  Best wishes for your career and I hope to see your work one day.

I like the Constitution and can’t suffer fools.  Best wishes for your career and I hope to see your work one day.

Socialism is government determiniation and distribution (ownership) of profit.  Profit, property (rights), and freedom must co-exist and belong to the individual.  Lose one and you lose them all.  Therefore, in the context of our times it is absurd to be concerned about business running amok while being oblivious to the outrageous overreach of go…[Read more]

“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.” — Thomas Jefferson.
And they’ll do it under some variation on the sanctimonious “greater good” demagoguery.  If government was able to stop all the evil in the world (or even the list you’ve provided), government would be God. 

Put the bong down dude, you’re about to overdose!

Churchill said, “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”  You noted at one point that we are a nation of laws.  Churchill also said, “If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.”  DeTocqueville warned us 170 years ago tha…[Read more]

Of course I’ve read the entire thread and my thoughts are neither unique nor complicated.  Free enterprise and capitalism, right here in the greatest nation ever to exist on Earth have produced over half of all the economic activity in all of human history.  Capitalism has fed, clothed, sheltered, secured, housed, and healed the planet for gener…[Read more]

Ms. One,
Please check out of the lounge until you get up-to-speed on taxes, sharia, etc.  The views advocated by the NY Times, Rolling Stone, National Enquirer, Hustler, and their ilk shouldn’t be advanced in lock-step here. 
 

The economy as it is, college costs, insecurity, and other maladies are the objectives of the people who are sponsoring these protests.  And the regard these sponsors have for our intelligence is illustrated by their belief that we’re too stupid to notice that they’re protesting the very things for which they’ve been working for the past 33 months.   

Intrigued.  What converging global challenges and what consensus thinking?  And what limits are there in the free market that might constrain forced changes?

Regarding government jobs: Hooray for all who remain in private practice and hats off to all who remain in the private sector even if it’s not Landscape Architecture. With only one (1) private sector paycheck now available to pay every 1.4 public sector paychecks, it’s high time all Americans consider it their personal and civic responsibility to…[Read more]

Humans are innately religious whether they be atheists, Hare Krishnas, or just good ol’ soccer moms – religion is whatever your life centers around and recently we’ve joined in a zealous Jonesing fest to see who can be the most dedicated to the faith of global warming (hereafter referred to as HICCUP – Human-Induced Climate Change is Uncon…[Read more]