O Tempora!

Once upon a time, I was a standard-issue liberal who believed in government control. At the time, of course, I thought I believed in freedom. Eventually, I figured out that most government control was bad - evil, in fact. In this post, which I'll update from time to time, I've written some brief notes on what I've learned about being left alone versus having the bureaucrats forcing stuff on us. Any comment without attribution is my own thought.

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Big government is a big black hole. It distorts reality, and anything that comes too close is sucked in and destroyed.

Trusting Congress to regulate business is like trusting the Mafia to regulate the Boy Scouts.

To call Social Security and Medicare “Ponzi Schemes” is to insult the memory of Carlo Ponzi. Ponzi couldn’t force people into his pyramid scheme.

Nowadays, “public servants” run roughshod over the public they are supposed to serve.

Equal pay for equal work! That means every government worker should have a 50% pay cut to be in line with the poor schmucks in private business.

Since civilian government employees earn about twice what private employees do for the same work, each government job costs 2 real jobs.

The more “free” stuff you get from your government, the more you are a slave to that government.

The left deplores honest, private self-interest as “greed” while honoring politicians’ limitless lust for power and insatiable appetite for other people’s money as “public service”.

The commerce clause of the Constitution is the stealth zipper Congress uses to get our pants off and rape us.

The commerce clause of the Constitution apparently means that our dear leaders can force us to do some things and force us not to do other things. It's really the Coerce Clause.

I’d rather be mugged than give money to a politician. At least the mugger won’t use the money he’s stolen to take away more of my freedom.

You cannot fix government-caused problems with more government.

Entitlements are eminent domain abuse on your earnings.

The welfare state is not a safety net – it’s a dependency trap.

Obama’s children attend a private school with 11 security personnel. Seven of those are “Special Police Officers” and presumably armed. Sandy Hook had no armed guards. To paraphrase Orwell, “All children are equal, but some are more equal than others.”

Nothing is more equitable than the inequities found in a free market. Nothing is less fair than government-forced “fairness”.


I am a free American, not a cell in the Big-government Borg.
Quotes from H.L. Menken

Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advance auction in stolen goods.

And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.

The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.

All government, in its essence, is organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.

Quotes from P.J. O’Rourke