Friday, May 13, 2016

Larwyn's Linx: Washington’s Idiotic Echo Chamber... Feds open Texas border to 4,000 Cubans

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Nation

Washington’s Idiotic Echo Chamber: Michael J. Totten
Feds open border to 4,000 Cubans, interviewed just 1 hour before release: Paul Bedard
Ending The Ruling Class: Cold Fury

The Post Turtle President Speaks: Scott McKay
House GOP wins Obamacare lawsuit: Robert King
Federal judge rules Obamacare is being funded unconstitutionally: David G. Savage

Millennials embrace socialism, but do they know what it is?: Jonah Goldberg
Is Hillary Rodham Clinton Destroying the Democratic Party?: Andrew Zarowny
Why Trump Is Smart to Drag Bill Clinton's Past Into the Race: Matt Lewis

On Crime, Will the Party of Reagan Become the Party of Bill Ayers?: Andrew C. McCarthy
Democrat Wonderland: Detroit's Educational Catastrophe: Beth Hawkins
Democrats Aim to Retake House: James Arkin and David Byler, RCP

Economy

The Rise Of American Socialism: Paul R. Gregory
Save the middle class, try capitalism!: Phil Shiver
The McClatchy Company Will Make American Employees Train Their Foreign Replacements: NUSA

Scandal Central

Clinton Charity Aided Clinton Friends: James V. Grimaldi
Obama’s Latest Amnesty for Drug Dealers: Freeing drug dealers, terrorizing communities: Daniel Greenfield
Flint: Never let crisis dollars go to waste: Exam

Climate, Energy and Regulations

UN climate chief candidly admits goal is not environment but to end capitalism: Poor Richard
Bill Nye Is A Huckster: David Harsanyi
Government Regulations Likely to Backfire Again: Brent Smith

Signs Of Thaw After Trump-Ryan Meeting: WZ
Clinton lucky social media wasn’t around early in her career: John Kass
Interpreting the Latest Clinton Email Scandal Tea Leaves: Jonathan F. Keiler

Media

US Veterans & Zombies: This Will Be Epic: Liberty Speaks
Before Trayvon Martin Was a Symbol, He Was a Teenager: John H. Richardson
A Matter Of Principle – A Note From A Constitutional Conservative: NoisyRoom

Leaked Documents Confirm Facebook Deciding Which News Stories Trend: Allum Bokhari
White House to issue decree on transgender toilets in public schools: Anna Giaritelli
The Key to an Unhappy Marriage: Stuart Schneiderman

World

Socialism extends its losing streak to 0 for 447: BattleSwarm
The Facebook Wrath of Khan: Danushha V. Goska
Muslims in Copehagen demanding that area become sharia zone: Vlad Tepes

The Curious Case of the Missing Iranian Nuke Talks Video at the State Department: Debra Heine
Islamic Sheikhs gave Bill and Hillary more than $100 million to buy influence: BNI
Yazidi Girl Exposes ISIS Rape Hellhole: Raymond Ibrahim

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Simple Ideas that are bordlerline genius: Dumpaday
That time the Air Force dropped a nuke on South Carolina: MuckRock
Wendy’s Serves Up Big Kiosk Expansion As Wage Hikes Hit Fast Food: Jed Graham

Cornucopia

Discovery in Art History: a Soviet - American bond !: Genosse Dummkopf
Lord Love a Duck: MOTUS
ToDaZeD yet another oppressed group: Sondrakistan

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QOTD: "Obama appears not to understand that ideology is alive and well and shapes life in profound ways. Societies are based on core ideological principles that cannot be randomly combined according to “what works.”

Economic, political, and social systems are like three-legged stools. The three legs of the capitalist or free enterprise stool are democratic/pluralistic public choice, a non-interventionist state, and a rule of law that protects personal and economic liberty. The three legs of the socialist stool are a one-party state, pervasive intervention in economic affairs, and a lack of a rule of law to guard personal and economic freedom.

The capitalist stool stands higher and is more stable than its socialist counterpart. Centuries of history show that capitalist, free enterprise economies have been able to grow, provide rising living standards, and innovate new technologies, contrary to Karl Marx’s belief they would inevitably collapse. Consider Germany and Korea: At the time of separation, North and South Korea had the same per capita income. Today, the Communist North has the same subsistence income as 65 years earlier, while the capitalist South’s has increased ten-fold with a thriving middle class. When the Berlin wall fell in 1989, curious West German visitors to the elite Wandlitz housing compound were surprised that East Germany’s top leaders did not live much better than they. In fact, their greatest privilege was a store stocked with West German goods within the compound grounds. Even the countries cited by the Left as positive examples of “democratic socialism”—Sweden and Denmark—gained their affluence through a century of free-enterprise growth, and they revert back to first principles when they stray too far from the model..." --Paul R. Gregory

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense of the word ... All economic change, therefore, would involve operations the value of which could neither be predicted beforehand nor ascertained after they had taken place. Everything would be a leap in the dark. Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy." -- Ludwig von Mises, Socialism, 1981, pp. 103-105.


from:
Why Socialism Must Always Fail: Ludwig Von Mises on Economic Calculation under Socialism
by Emmanuel Forgolou (June 25, 2000)

Article address: http://www.CapMag.com/article.asp?ID=600



In "Economic Calculation in a Socialist Commonwealth," Ludwig von Mises demonstrates, once and forever, that, under socialist central planning, there are no means of economic calculation and that, therefore, socialist economy itself is "impossible"--not just inefficient or less innovative or conducted without benefit of decentralized knowledge, but really and truly and literally impossible.

https://mises.org/library/economic-calculation-socialist-commonwealth



On the service Socialism is just a different economic system, on built on the specious idea that society would be better on balance when everyone is forced by the government to live at the expense of everyone else. But this is only where socialism starts. The economic aspects of socialism are a means to a social and indeed almost spiritual end: to improve human nature itself. This is how we go from "to each according to his need, from each according to his ability," to "the Perfect Soviet Man". It is an attempt to make humans that are spiritually perfect, at least as socialists would define them.

But this cannot be. It is impossible. God tells us plainly in Scripture that apart from God, humanity can never transcend its inherent nature and its basic mortality. Socialism is an attempt to do both. Otherwise, socialists would not be so fierce and frantic in their efforts and demands to replace liberty and the free market with socialism and the socialist society. A society built around socialism, then is a society that is attempting to function based on lies, starting with economic lies, but moving to lies about government and society itself. That is why a free market does not need secret police and slave labor camps but a socialist society always eventually has them. That is why socialists must lie:

"The permanent lie becomes the only safe form of existence, in the same way as betrayal. Every wag of the tongue can be overheard by someone, every facial expression observed by someone. Therefore every word, if it does not have to be a direct lie, is nonetheless obliged not to contradict the general, common lie. There exists a collection of ready-made phrases, of labels, a selection of ready-made lies.”

– Alexander Solzhenitsyn on the pervasiveness of lies in the socialist society


-- theBuckWheat


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