Friday, February 25, 2011

Quick Quips & Quotes – 2/25/11

"[A]ny provider that commands 90 percent of the market -- whether we're talking about software, phone service, or heating oil -- is, by definition, a monopoly. Our government employs thousands of bureaucrats to track down and break up monopolies on the grounds that monopolies stifle competition and thereby produce bad products at high prices. Doesn't it strike anyone as strange that the same government protects its own monopoly in education? And stranger still, that nearly everyone accepts this state of affairs as normal -- as something that has always been and must always be? ... [C]ompetition forces public schools into making long-overdue repairs. And it offers poor parents the choices they desperately desire." -- Jennifer A. Grossman


imageGive them another reason why Obama has GOT to go.

His speeches are SO boring. Remember all that pre-election propaganda about him being the greatest presidential orator since Abraham Lincoln? Yeah, right. Maybe on the first few listens that gravelly, ponderous, measured style might have fooled us into thinking he had something to say. But he doesn't. Just airy platitudes, colossal egoism, and fake profundity such as, "We do not have to think that human nature is perfect for us to still believe that the human condition can be perfected." Yeah, whatever, Barack. Zzzzzz.


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