“When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice,
that an old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians
have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had only one before.”
– H. L. Mencken
(1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic

Respect For The Office?

by L. J. Martin

http://fromthepeapatch.com

Yeah, Ricky Martin is cute and a great singer, and now he’s thrilled, as another gay blade entertainer, to have been endorsed, in mass with the other gay blades, by the president of the U.S.A.  I’m sure John Travolta will soon be invited to a white house supper, or maybe Ricky invited him to join himself and a few dozen intimate friends to sup with Obama, for a mere $35,000 a ticket.  I wonder if the tip is included?  I’ll bet the Secret Service has to station a man in the men’s restroom at all these gay bashes the president attends in order to move the boys along—these particular attendees have a tendency to dilly dally in the boys room—and make sure the president has an audience for his talk.  Don’t ask me to define dilly dally as I prefer to leave it up to your imagination.

From Townhall.com:

“It is impossible to introduce into society
a greater change and a greater evil than this:
the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.”
– Frederic Bastiat
(1801-1850) French economist, statesman, and author. He did most of his writing during the years just before — and immediately following — the French Revolution of February 1848.
June 1850
Source: “The Law” by Frederic Bastiat (1848)

Tenure for teachers is among the worst of what we’ve begat from American unions:

From the book jacket of the new hardcover….

College tuition has risen four times faster than the rate of inflation in the past two decades. While faculties like to blame the rising costs on fancy athletic buildings and bloated administrations, professors are hardly getting the short end of the stick. Spending on instruction has increased 22 percent over the past decade at private research universities.

Parents and taxpayers shouldn’t get overheated about faculty salaries: tenure is where they should concentrate their anger. The jobs-for-life entitlement that comes with an ivory tower position is at the heart of so many problems with higher education today. Veteran journalist Naomi Schaefer Riley, an alumna of one of the country’s most expensive and best-endowed schools, explores how tenure has promoted a class system in higher education, leaving contingent faculty who are barely making minimum wage and have no time for students to teach large swaths of the undergraduate population. She shows how the institution of tenure forces junior professors to keep their mouths shut for a decade or more if they disagree with senior faculty about anything from politics to research methods. And she examines how the institution of tenure—with the job security, mediocre salaries and low levels of accountability it entails—may be attracting the least innovative and interesting members of our society into teaching.

“Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive,
for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice
in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote
for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation.”
– Karl Marx
Father of Communism, Author of the ‘Communist Manifesto’
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Karl.Marx.Quote.B255

From Townhall.com: