tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22781533.post1101086914922214964..comments2024-03-23T14:04:57.635-05:00Comments on Father Hollywood: Politicians Can't Read (or: We Were Warned)Rev. Larry Beanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06705910892752648940noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22781533.post-71436595731220691732008-10-28T20:11:00.000-05:002008-10-28T20:11:00.000-05:00Dear Greg:I hope and pray you are safe from the vi...Dear Greg:<BR/><BR/>I hope and pray you are safe from the violence in Congo. I lived in Kenner from 2004 until about a year and a half ago. <BR/><BR/>I could have voted early, but I'm just going to vote often instead. Just kidding (in Louisiana, I'm sure there will be some of those shenanigans for real!).<BR/><BR/>Blessings on your work, and may the Lord bless you and keep you!Rev. Larry Beanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06705910892752648940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22781533.post-34813252134291132682008-10-15T18:04:00.000-05:002008-10-15T18:04:00.000-05:00Hey, I just posted the same text on my blog, and t...Hey, I just posted the same text on my blog, and then found yours via sphere!<BR/><BR/>I note you are in Gretna. I grew up in Kenner, am now living in Congo as a missionary.<BR/><BR/>BTW - you are aware that Ron Paul is on the ballot in Louisiana, under the Taxpayers' Party? I voted absentee, and sure enough he is there!Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07639215330146004282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22781533.post-45266701911105809502008-10-12T17:40:00.000-05:002008-10-12T17:40:00.000-05:00I have been blessed with a co-worker who has becom...I have been blessed with a co-worker who has become great friend (along with her husband, an economics major), who very recently came by my office with a gift: the book you mentioned in this blog posting. <BR/><BR/>This book reiterates the very simple truth that (at the very least, regarding economics) the best government is that which governs least.<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately, this election cycle, we have 2 candidates that support the very thing the free market fights against: excessive government intervention. <BR/><BR/>At least one of our 2 selections is pro-life: if he wasn't, I'd be sitting this one out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22781533.post-82223228850695469972008-10-11T21:13:00.000-05:002008-10-11T21:13:00.000-05:00Dear Anastasia:I agree about corruption. I think ...Dear Anastasia:<BR/><BR/>I agree about corruption. I think most of the smart ones are corrupt, but I also believe there is an army of "useful idiots" (an expression attributed to Lenin) who make the corruption possible.<BR/><BR/>I believe there are a lot of people who manage to get elected because they are popular or well-connected - not because they are well-read, understand history and economics, or particularly knowledgeable of the Constitution.<BR/><BR/>I think they get elected and then become part of the establishment in Washington, accepting all the "conventional wisdom" that is simply economic fallacy.<BR/><BR/>Of course, we also have stupid ones who are also corrupt - they tend to get caught.<BR/><BR/>One unelected Washington bureaucrat who truly "knows better" (who is known to advocate sound money in private while playing the debt game of Washington) is former Fed chairman Allen Greenspan.<BR/><BR/>He is truly an enigma. He isn't stupid. He might be corrupt, but more likely, he just accepted certain premises because that was the culture in Washington. Deep down, he knows this is nonsense, and some kind of horrific correction (likely hyperinflation) is coming.<BR/><BR/>It would be interesting to know where he and Bernanke are putting their retirement nest eggs.Rev. Larry Beanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06705910892752648940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22781533.post-82189876199086457122008-10-11T21:00:00.000-05:002008-10-11T21:00:00.000-05:00When a person is corrupt, it means he doesn't do t...When a person is corrupt, it means he doesn't do things the right way, because he has found it more profitable to do things the wrong way. Almost ANY way but the right way has its corrupt benefits.<BR/><BR/><I>That</I> is why the politicians in Washington (and elsewhere) look stupid or under-educated, because they're always doing things the wrong way. But they're doing it on purpose. It isn't that they are stupid. It isn't that they cannot read. <I>It's that they are corrupt.</I> <BR/><BR/>Corruption always looks like stupidity or incompetence.Anastasia Theodoridishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16092531121989260111noreply@blogger.com