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If you haven't enjoyed the WSJ article on cash-strapped cities turning to privatized police, janitorial services, etc. to SAVE MONEY, you're in for a big treat. Click on the above, then rejoin us us on the Front Porch for some frolicsome discussion!! Just continue here...
For those of us totally convinced of the efficacy of free markets providing better and less costly goods, services and light years faster technological advancement than state monopolies, the latest round of the turn to privatization is no surprise. We're aware that anything worth doing has already been done better, more efficiently, with far less corruption, and more futuristically by the private sector. Yes, Virginia, EVERYTHING!!
For this conversation, fellow alert libertarians, let "talk among our-
selves."
As one of the President's thugs observed correctly, though not with any originality, "Never let a crisis go to waste." The financial crisis faced by cities, states and countries today is forcing them to flirt with real solutions i.e. free markets and private ownership and enterprise, which is toxic anathema to the mystique of the State, long term.
This desperate measure by power elites is hoped to be temporary. They hope to take back control when free market enterprise has pulled the plunderers' chestnuts out of the fire. Their one haunting fear is that the dumbed-down that they have meticulously spent 100 years cultivating, won't awaken in significant numbers and spoil their centuries old con.
I'm not going to insult the intelligence of readers here with a rehashing of the history of succes of private enterpise, as well as the omission of that history in textbooks and in the classroom of useful idiots.
What I am going to suggest, to those of us who already know "these truthes are self-evident," is that we merely turn the tables on the Dark Side, and make sure this 'crisis' doesn't go to waste!! Let's get out in front of this latest manifestation, tell those not totally comatose what's going on, how, and why, and then let's amaze them with our 'magical' prognostication of what's going to happen next!!
Tell 'em before it happens, as it's happening, and after it has happened. It's a great technique that has been employed by the most influential among ourselves---Beck, Rand, Limbaugh, Hayek, deTocqueville, and all the other folks deserving of being included by name. "Magic" sells!! Let's roll!!
Monday, July 19, 2010
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Hi, Jack, i suggest we start the Church of Jack, and do magic tricks on stage while the audience prays for a sign from God. I found just the book for you, too, "LAUNCH, Starting a New Church from Scratch." I was able to read 12 pages before i threw up. I'll send you a copy to see if you can beat my record. After you sign it, pass it along to somebody else. G
ReplyDeleteWe already had the magic tricks going when jesus walked on water. He knew where the stepping stones were! How about Lot's wife turning into a pillar of salt, wow, the man was left married to a condiment. Miracles of smoke, mirrors, fog and sand. As fake as your girlfriend's orgasm. L.D.
ReplyDeleteL.D. - When you're done spiting cherry pits and flinging cow chips you might consider a refresher course in - Ground Rules for Literary Interpretation 101.
ReplyDeleteWe often tend to look at literary elements separately: structure (plot), symbolism, point-of-view, setting, theme, etc.
Those who attempt to ridicule the Bible by ignoring normal rules of literary interpretation and usage end up ridiculing themselves. Abundant general literary precedent, as well as specific Hebrew and Greek literary techniques, affirm that phrases including geographical references to non-geographical states such as heaven, hell, death, and despair are not meant to refer to actual geographic or spatial locations. Jesus didn't need to find oxygen to breathe in space because he didn't go into space. Heaven is a different dimension, not some place past the galaxy! A contemporary example would be the common phrase, "You're driving me crazy," which no one should interpret to mean that you are physically restraining me in your vehicle as you transport me to the geographical location of lunacy (probably California!).
btw; The car is 'gassed up' - I'm ready to head West when you are.