Thought for the Day

If government were to take over the management of the Sahara Desert there would be a shortage of sand there within five years.
                                                                                      Milton Friedman

Romney's Tax Returns

     For Mitt Romney to release more of his tax returns for public scrutiny would be a great mistake.  Does anyone seriously believe that that would satisfy the Democrats and turn their attention to real issues?  The Democrats would never let go of it.  They would seize on everything in it as indicative of some evil conspiracy, some dark ruse to avoid taxes and they would keep pounding away on it through election day as if we did not know that Romney is a wealthy man.

     Harry Truman said that an event does not retain the attention of the public for more than about six weeks, and today that is more like one week.  It is when there is a mine field such as Watergate, when there is some shocking event, and then another, and another, so that focus on it is never lost, that the matter remains in the news.  If Romney simply refuses, without explanation, the Democrats will continue to demand disclosure but eventually they will stop when they have started to realize that the "issue" is putting people to sleep.

What This is About

     This is a Christian blog and I hope that nothing here is incompatible with that, though topics range through religion, politics, metaphysics, philosophy and other topics thought to be interesting.  The viewpoints range widely and not all of them are necessarily shared by myself or anyone else in particular.  My intention is to provoke thought.  The pictures are placed here to break up the texts and because I like them.  Most of them are depictions of beautiful girls and there's nothing I would rather look at than that, though I hope that they are in good taste, or at least not in bad taste. The essay on Social Security is included because there is so much misunderstanding about what it is, why we have it, and what its prospects may be in the future.  Misrepresentations on that subject, deliberate or not, eminate from the right and the left from different motives, which is rather unusual.  I try to be strictly objective and wrote most of the essay myself, drawing on various literature on the subject.
     Most of these essays are anonymous because the contributors want it that way. 
                                                                                freddieplato

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