Coin-A-Thought:Planning Economys

Arrogant Conceit

"So they will "transform our economy." Obama's nearly trillion-dollar plan will not merely repair bridges, fill potholes and fix up schools; it will also impose a utopian vision based on the belief that an economy is a thing to be planned from above. But this is an arrogant conceit. No one can possibly know enough to redesign something as complex as "an economy," which really is people engaging in exchanges to achieve their goals. Planning it means planning them. "

This is a at the polar opposite of our system. If you have to plan what happens in the economy you must know what people are going to do. You must restrict what people do in order to plan the economy from the top.

Planning Economies Means Planning People

Coin-A-Thought: Free People Free to Work

This one is my own. May be there is a problem, a similar quote Of Marx or equal insanity. It chants well. Economic Freedom And Social Freedom just don't. It is, I hope a counter position to Economic and Social Justice. Freedom works it self out. Justice requires someone to work it out. A small group have to be that someone as apposed to all of us working it out.

FREE PEOPLE FREE TO WORK.

Coin-a-Thought :Have Laws Not Legislation

From Cafe Hayek

"He helps us to comprehend that law itself (as opposed to legislation) is largely spontaneous and undesigned. Not all legislation is law - consider the fact that highway drivers routinely exceed posted speed limits by five or ten miles per hour. And not all law is created by legislation (or even by court proceedings) - consider the "first come, first served" rule..."

Similar to the just because you can do it doesn't mean you should. This applies more to civil rule as opposed to moral choices. It says some thing about the needless overly legal way legislation is written and implemented as well as needless number of laws that are passed. So,

Have Laws Not Legislation

Coin-a-Thought : Vote or Revolt

Some ideas are hard to explain in a post of thirty second sound bite. Like ignorance is bliss. You could give a basic explanation of that but you have to sit with it in your head for any real understanding. In an attempt to allow more ideas so sit in your head longer I am going to chop some thoughts down to little, hard to forget bites. When they apply, you will remember and hopefully see more clearly.

From FT.com's Crookblog via EconLog
Acctualy from a book but this is where it hit me.

"I would sooner take up arms against a government that saw me as a child than vote for it."

Vote Or Revolt. Our redress is when we vote. If the will of the majority is no longer heard then do we Revolt? So when do you stop voting and start revolting. Two more elections as I look at it now. In the times we live, we are all going to have to decide in the next few years:

Vote OR Revolt