Goodies From Ol' Remus

  Ol' Remus

Rome, like America, had an expanding welfare state. It started with "subsidized grain. The government gave it away at half price. But the problem was that they couldn't stop there ... a man named Claudius ran for Tribune on a platform of free wheat for the masses. And won. It was downhill from there." Soon, to appease angry voters, emperors gave away or subsidized olive oil, salt and pork. People lined up to get free stuff.
John Stossel, comment on warning by Foundation for Economic Education Pres. Lawrence Reed at reason.com

The State has developed so great an appetite for the wealth and freedom of its host that the host will soon cease to struggle for life. For a short time thereafter, the United States will most resemble the terminal stages of the nation portrayed in Atlas Shrugged: It will be hagridden by openly thuggish rulers, beneath which will swarm a second tier of parasites.
Francis Porretto at bastionofliberty.blogspot.com

Race is not the issue in America. The destruction of the black community by black leadership in conjunction with white liberals, now that is the issue.
The DiploMad at thediplomad.blogspot.com

I cringe every time I hear someone who supposedly supports gun rights – from politicians to the head of the NRA – calling for the feds to "enforce the laws already on the books." The fact is, the gun laws that are already on the books are a labyrinth of confusion and booby-traps full of open-ended mandates, ambiguous definitions, and unbridled bureaucratic discretion.  Many innocent people have had their lives and livelihoods completely destroyed when federal agencies have decided to "enforce the laws already on the books."
Jeff Knox at ammoland.com

Can't solve the problems because the problems are cultural. You have a city, 139 square miles. You can graze cattle in vast portions of it. Dangerous herds of feral dogs roam in there. You have three percent of fourth graders reading at the national math standards. Forty-seven percent of Detroit residents are functionally illiterate. Seventy-nine percent of Detroit children are born to unmarried mothers. They don’t have a fiscal problem, Steve. They have a cultural collapse... For 60 years, they voted for incompetents, malcontents and in some cases, criminals.
George Will, at ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos, quoted by Jeff Poor at dailycaller.com

 The Constitution of the USA has become over time and a hundred Supreme Court decisions ...a collectivist document. It allows forced redistribution of income, direct government investments in business, transferring money from individuals to favored businesses (not the same as tax breaks), control and abrogation of all private contracts like labor and property and so on. There are no real limits to government intervention in any part of life, now. None. It has been done plainly, in full sight an ounce at a time by the statist-collectivists.
FreedomGuy, comment 3813677 at zerohedge.com 

Education - If anyone could make the argument that the standard "stand and deliver" lecture style teaching of the basics of language, arithmetic, science and literature that took place in the 1940s, 50s and 60s was replaced and supplanted and we got better results as a consequence I might be willing to listen. But you can't make that argument.
Karl Denninger at market-ticker.org

New York Times - House Republicans investigating Obama scandals must be viewed as an assembly line for organized character assassination, not congressional oversight. This is especially true at the Times, which sees the president as a far too special historical figure to get the punishing scrutiny applied to people the Times thinks are slack-jawed country bumpkins, such as Mike Lee, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul. They see Obama as a Jackie Robinson figure, a racial pioneer who endures the angry, spitting fury of the right-wing mobs with great courage and flair.
Brent Bozell at creators.com