Joel Miller
Joel Miller
bells database gonna looks
It looks like we're gonna have the same old, same old with a new database with bells and whistles.
felt people safe sure
I wanted to make sure people felt safe in their homes.
cent cents changes half high price single
It used to be that when there were price swings, it would be half a cent a day. But now you're getting changes as high as 6 or 7 cents in a single day. That is very unusual.
government jumping demand
Every day Big Government heaps demands and restrictions upon businesses that sink some enterprises, cause others to direct resources away from serving customers and instead toward jumping through hoops of lawyers and regulators, and prevent other operations from ever getting off the ground.
government people benefits
Markets help people pursue their happiness more efficiently and effectively. Because they are so effective, markets provide benefits right here and right now, even while government is busy batching the protection of happiness.
government focus should
Instead of doing more badly, government should focus on doing less well.
player reality government
Markets are nimble and efficient, gathering the collective but disbursed intelligence of the economy's players and communicating up-to-the-minute realities of prices, product availability, etc. Government is typically cumbersome, plodding, and slow.
quilts crazy law
Today, the law is a crazy quilt of provisions and clauses that very often have little to do with securing general happiness but instead are designed to secure the particular happiness of various advocacy groups, politicians and bureaucrats.
political favors reform
Political changes and reforms do not usually favor the general populace. They benefit those who are positioned to best organize and advocate for their policies.
war thinking witch-trials
With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don't think it's far off-kilter to describe the modern-day drug war as oddly similar to the Salem witch trials.
simple strings-attached drug
Far from a simple attempt to rid the nation of crime and drugs, our policy against narcotics -- like any public policy -- comes with strings attached. And increasingly these strings are constricting around the necks of Americans' lives and liberties.
meaningful people risk
What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of the word, that means they are at liberty to foul up their lives as much as make something grand of them. That's a gamble we all take. That's the risk of liberty. Nobody wants others to screw up their lives, but each must be free to do so for themselves.
government way common
The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small.
government quality decrease
As government increases in quantity, our lives decrease in quality.