Robin
Koerner Huffington Post Quotes in reverse date order . Some abridged and combined by the man from the Clapham Omnibus .
If
an American wants to go anywhere and feel welcomed and appreciated,
he could do little better than go to Poland .
America,
as proven by its history, does have something exceptional to offer
the world - the primacy of the individual and a philosophy of the
restrained exercise of power, which acknowledges the robust ethical
position that a man is entirely free up until the point his freedom
bears on someone else’s
Left
and right are not the two paradigms of American politics. They are
the two flavors of only one.
America
has been brought to its knees by a Left that has empowered the state
and a Right that has subsidized big business. The rest of us have
paid for it in liberty and wealth, respectively.
Over
time, the products of human labor accumulate as assets to those that
deal only in money and make nothing good .
There
is no welfarism, beloved of the old Left, without crony capitalism
(which pays for it). And there is no crony capitalism, beloved of the
old Right, without welfarism (which maintains the political stability
that protects it).
Corporate
interests have made the State corrupt by financing it, and the State
has made corporations corrupt through corporatist law-making .
Something
is surely afoot when the “extremists” are advocating :- Not
invading countries without declaring war, spending no more than
revenues, using money that is worth something and not passing laws
that allows government agents to invade the privacy of citizens
without cause, and the “moderates” are advocating :- Spending
trillions more than we earn, dropping bombs on people who don’t
threaten us and voiding the fourth amendment without so much as a “by
the way”.
True
Constitutionalists conserve liberality. Does that make them
conservative or liberal?
“First,
Do No Harm,” is the Constitution in four words
Shouting
“racism” where there is none seeks to promote division to the
benefit of the group that makes the claim .
Evils
can only be eliminated when honestly identified .
Secure
the border simply because security is the first duty of government .
The
two-party system does more to undermine the principles of the
Founding Fathers than any other single structure in the USA (except
perhaps the Federal Reserve)
“It’s not
government’s job to decide for you. Your life should be as you
wish.”
Some of the greatest
champions of liberal politics have been conservatives
The Constitution was a
liberal document, protecting the rights of common men against
tyranny
To
those on the Left, the Right is bad. To those on the Right, the Left
is wrong.
Politicians
are less clever than they think they are
Greater
government reach provides greater opportunities for corruption
All
policies have unintended consequences
Welfare
is sustained by a system of printing money that simultaneously
supports big banks and inflation, making average citizens poorer,
increasing the need for welfare and reducing the buying power of the
welfare checks... and so on, in a vicious cycle
The
moderate Left and Right have a common enemy that wants to impose its
will on society at the expense of individual liberty and, usually,
prosperity.
People (and states) are
free to make their own choices, and the rest of us are free to
disagree with them, and make our own. That is the only
true liberalism worthy of the name.
To Be or Not to Be: American Freedom, Exceptionalism and Identity
Government
is inherently dangerous because it is the only social or cultural
entity that has a monopoly of force.
Outside
the U.S., freedom is regarded as a social good that may be protected
by government and “balanced” with other social goods,
whereas as in the U.S., by contrast, individual freedoms must be
protected from government, precisely because of that
monopoly of force. America’s Constitution was written accordingly.
America
must make a choice between remembering its identity and carrying on
passively as elites dilute its birthright
America
can do better because America is better.
American
politics is about what matters — philosophical questions of power
and liberty that affect our lives.
Americans
don’t just ask how government should do something: we ask whether
government should be permitted to do something at all . Elsewhere,
people march to make their governments force other people to give
them money or benefits
American
professors don’t correct work.
I
am a complete America-phile
It
doesn’t matter how much money you throw at something if the people
who are supposed to deliver the service don’t know enough to do the
job
Shame
on all politicians who just continue to throw money at a system that
has seen standards decline even as funding has increased
Shame
on all teachers who don’t care enough about this problem to do
anything about it
If
our debt doesn’t finish us, our education system certainly will.
Sell Illusion, Purchase Reality: Currency as a Cultural Conceit
Currency
and value are opposites!
It’s
what everyone is certain of, but wrong about, that kills us.
A
man who has a million dollars in the bank and nothing else may be
wiped out in a flash . Only real things
are wealth . Gold has uniquely performed the wealth preservation
function throughout history . Fiat currencies fail.
“Money” is created
by banks only when someone borrows it. There always exists less money
than is owed to the banks that create it, so debt slavery and
foreclosure are built into the system.
Austrian Economics and Modern Monetary Theory
In a free market, parties to a trade both benefit
since each gets what he or she regards as the greater value in the
exchange
The political class
should stop making everything worse by trying to redistribute wealth
to make everything better.
In the fractional
reserve system, private banks create money when they create debt, and
by charging interest when they do so, ensure that, over time, real
wealth is transferred from productive workers to financiers who
produce nothing directly.
Just because the
government cannot be insolvent it is NOT the case that a system in
which all this is true is fair, sustainable or conducive to our
well-being.
A Balanced Budget Amendment Would Change Everything
The debt ceiling is
just a legislative choice.
The threat of inflation
and a possible currency collapse stops our government from buying
whatever it wants .
According to Modern
Monetary Theorists since the government creates all of the
dollars the total number of dollars in the world equals the US
government debt
The government —
should be chained down, with its powers limited to the greatest
possible extent that is compatible with its singular purpose of
“securing the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness”.
Economic policy
comments by most of our leaders suggest they’ve never picked up an
economics book, asked what money is, or even read the Constitution.
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