red states rule
04-03-2010, 09:37 AM
I found this gem on-line and it shows how liberals constantly want to limit freedom
wrote this a long time ago. But with Democrats firmly back in charge, I think it's good to remind ourselves of some basic truths:
1. Stupid Economics: Liberals don’t understand some of the basic facts of economics. Fact one, the law of diminishing returns and, fact two, that everything, and I mean everything, has a cost (often expressed as “there’s no such thing as a free lunch.”). Liberal thinking requires one to believe that human-devised solutions can solve problems at little or no cost. But the law of diminishing returns guarantees that there are no perfect solutions, and no free lunch means there are only tradeoffs of various costs. The law of diminishing returns works when you clean your house. An hour’s work can make a large difference. The next hour, the results get less. If you decide you’ll spend as much time as needed to have as clean a house as possible eventually you’ll be scrubbing the individual carpet fibers, working very hard, and not making much progress (diminishing returns) meanwhile the dishes are piling up in the sink and you have no time to work to earn money to eat (the costs). Which leads us to . . .
2. Stupid Priorities: If having the cleanest house possible regardless of the cost is a stupid goal because of the law of diminishing returns, imagine the goal of having the cleanest environment possible. And yet that is what liberals want: perfect solutions. After TWA 800 exploded Vice President Al Gore stated that no matter how safe air travel was, it must be made safer. In other words, it must be made so safe that no plane ever crashes (and even then it could be safer: people still might stub their toe getting on or off a plane). There is no way, short of grounding all aircraft, to eliminate all airplane crashes and yet the man most likely to succeed Bill Clinton thinks this is possible. This is a typical example of liberal stupid priorities for not only is it impossible, but trying to do it will invariably do more harm than good as resources are diverted from useful projects (like improving and updating the air traffic control system which would have a significant effect on airline safety) to stupid ones like attempting to build a plane that is immune to the laws of physics. This is again not realizing that there is a point of diminishing returns as you approach the asymptote of perfection. But the liberal worldview is one of absolutes. You don’t eliminate as many plane crashes as economically feasible, but all. And for crying out loud, you don’t have poverty because that’s not compassionate.
for the rest of the article
http://www.radioactivecommunistzombies.com/radioactive_communist_zom/2009/01/ten-stupid-things-liberals-do-to-messup-everyones-life.html
wrote this a long time ago. But with Democrats firmly back in charge, I think it's good to remind ourselves of some basic truths:
1. Stupid Economics: Liberals don’t understand some of the basic facts of economics. Fact one, the law of diminishing returns and, fact two, that everything, and I mean everything, has a cost (often expressed as “there’s no such thing as a free lunch.”). Liberal thinking requires one to believe that human-devised solutions can solve problems at little or no cost. But the law of diminishing returns guarantees that there are no perfect solutions, and no free lunch means there are only tradeoffs of various costs. The law of diminishing returns works when you clean your house. An hour’s work can make a large difference. The next hour, the results get less. If you decide you’ll spend as much time as needed to have as clean a house as possible eventually you’ll be scrubbing the individual carpet fibers, working very hard, and not making much progress (diminishing returns) meanwhile the dishes are piling up in the sink and you have no time to work to earn money to eat (the costs). Which leads us to . . .
2. Stupid Priorities: If having the cleanest house possible regardless of the cost is a stupid goal because of the law of diminishing returns, imagine the goal of having the cleanest environment possible. And yet that is what liberals want: perfect solutions. After TWA 800 exploded Vice President Al Gore stated that no matter how safe air travel was, it must be made safer. In other words, it must be made so safe that no plane ever crashes (and even then it could be safer: people still might stub their toe getting on or off a plane). There is no way, short of grounding all aircraft, to eliminate all airplane crashes and yet the man most likely to succeed Bill Clinton thinks this is possible. This is a typical example of liberal stupid priorities for not only is it impossible, but trying to do it will invariably do more harm than good as resources are diverted from useful projects (like improving and updating the air traffic control system which would have a significant effect on airline safety) to stupid ones like attempting to build a plane that is immune to the laws of physics. This is again not realizing that there is a point of diminishing returns as you approach the asymptote of perfection. But the liberal worldview is one of absolutes. You don’t eliminate as many plane crashes as economically feasible, but all. And for crying out loud, you don’t have poverty because that’s not compassionate.
for the rest of the article
http://www.radioactivecommunistzombies.com/radioactive_communist_zom/2009/01/ten-stupid-things-liberals-do-to-messup-everyones-life.html