Choices of Capitalism

God-given right: choice. A certain place, which is actually hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of places, demonstrates how that right intersects, and works in concert with, the freedoms of capitalism. I refer to:

A) Soviet Russia

B) Grocery Stores

C) The People's Republic of China

D) Somewhere that espouses Socialism, which restricts its subjects to a level of financial bondage and eventual bankruptcy.

I love grocery stores. At least multiple brands represent thousands of types of products from which to choose. The super market facilitates competition, optimizing prices, which is always good for the consumer. 

Good thing I am lactose intolerant

In honor of the 44th President of the United States, Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream has introduced a new flavor: "Barocky Road." Barocky Road is a blend of half vanilla, half chocolate, and surrounded by nuts and flakes. The vanilla portion of the mix is not openly advertised and usually denied as an ingredient. The nuts and flakes are all very bitter and hard to swallow. The cost is $100.00 per scoop. When purchased it will be presented to you in a large beautiful cone, but then the ice cream is taken away and given to the person in line behind you. You are left with an empty wallet and no change, holding an empty cone with no hope of getting any ice cream. Are you stimulated?

Take that, PC.

We're currently running a promotion at work (I work at a credit union) to invite members to stop receiving paper statements and access them online. (We're not acquiescing to Big Al.) We often use the verbage, "Do you want to disable your paper statements?" One of my co-workers, upon cancelling a certain member's statements pronounced, "You are now disabled." Classic!

From the Reagan Diaries

Wednesday, February 11 (1981)

"Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying."

A Lesson from the Mormons

The answer is a flat tax. As most familiar with the religion know, members of the LDS faith pay 10 percent of their annual increase to the Church as tithing. That money goes to building temples, meeting houses, stake houses (not steak houses...mmmm steak), printing Books of Mormon and all the other materials that the Church uses. Regardless of income amount, roughly 13 million members pay the same portion of their income, and the economic growth--let alone the spiritual growth--of the Church has grown astronomically. Without certainty of any empirical data, an LDS temple costs several million dollars to build. Imagine if 300+ million U.S. citizens were paying the same portion of their income in taxes. What could be accomplished? That all depends, I guess, on whose running the system: Turbo Tax Guru Tiny Tim of the Elven Folk need not apply.

Congratulations Comrades!

Yes, yes. Congratulations to those who are steering this ship. We've effectively fulfilled Chuck Schumer's words and have destroyed traditional values. When Ford is compared to the intelligent homeowner who prudently saved to be able to pay its mortgage, and GM and Chrysler are compared to Ford's spendthrift neighbors whose mortgages will be reduced by being paid by some federal program, and in the same sentence Ford is chided for not taking federal money, we can know that the moral status quo has changed in favor of the other guys.

Irresponsibility is now rewarded, and prudence is now outdated and old fashioned.

Happy Belated Earth Day

TIMBERRRRRRRRRRRR! Up yours Gore.

Justice for libs

Anyone else excited to see who Barry will appoint to the supreme court? Didn't think so.
Well at least we have a few ways to figure out who it might be. We just need to find all the judges that haven't paid taxes and we'll know that they are on Barry's short list of nominees.