Wednesday, September 26, 2007
“You mean there's someone just as good as Carl Barks?”
I grew up reading Uncle Scrooge, but by the time Don Rosa started drawing the comic, I had stopped reading comic books in general. And while I had heard of Don Rosa as an Uncle Scrooge artist, I had no idea how good he was, in both art and story.
I might have to scare up a few copies of his work.
How much money can I get with my vote?
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship.
Alexander Tyler (presumedly)
There are two ways out of this: inflation or deflation. Either home prices drop until they return to their historical relationship to wages, or the price of everything except houses goes up as the Federal Reserve and Congress bail out “homeowners.” The Federal Reserve can do it with its current chief's money-dropping helicopters, or Congress can do it by using our tax money to pay off the bad debts of investment banks while pretending to “bail out homeowners who will lose their homes!” Either way, we taxpayers lose and banks win.
Hmmm … democracy … or fiscal irresponsibility?
Yeah … democracy is overrated anyway.
Charge it! I won't have to pay for it! Woot!
