pork-barrel PIGS
there's a quiz tomorrow in my principles of macroeconomics class and i just finished studying for it. thoughts on the economics of collective decision-making?
the very fact that bureaucrats (a vile breed) exist in our political arena, i think, is a moral dilemma and indicative of where western civilization is heading. they must go the way of the nobility. we must purge them from our ranks! these people could not survive legitimately by means of a productive career that--in the truer, nobler sense of the word--SERVES society, so they perverted their "abilities" by joining the likes of men (and i use that word lightly) that make a career out of selling their power to special interests. bastiat taught me that people profit in two ways: productivity and plunder. we live in a society where plunder isn't just acceptable, but commonplace and encouraged! you can't even escape the disgusting statist presuppositions in a textbook that claims to tell things the way they are (positive economics), not how they ought to be (normative economics)! well if it's so objective, then why is one of its hypotheses, all things equal, voters will tend to vote for representatives and legislation that will most directly grant them more government benefits coupled with lesser costs? that does not describe me and that does not describe the men who founded this glorious nation!
the very fact that bureaucrats (a vile breed) exist in our political arena, i think, is a moral dilemma and indicative of where western civilization is heading. they must go the way of the nobility. we must purge them from our ranks! these people could not survive legitimately by means of a productive career that--in the truer, nobler sense of the word--SERVES society, so they perverted their "abilities" by joining the likes of men (and i use that word lightly) that make a career out of selling their power to special interests. bastiat taught me that people profit in two ways: productivity and plunder. we live in a society where plunder isn't just acceptable, but commonplace and encouraged! you can't even escape the disgusting statist presuppositions in a textbook that claims to tell things the way they are (positive economics), not how they ought to be (normative economics)! well if it's so objective, then why is one of its hypotheses, all things equal, voters will tend to vote for representatives and legislation that will most directly grant them more government benefits coupled with lesser costs? that does not describe me and that does not describe the men who founded this glorious nation!