Some say that we should grow our own food, buy locally, keep firms small, eschew modern conveniences like home appliances, go back to using only natural products, expropriate wealthy savers, and harass the capitalistic class. This paradise has a name, and it is Haiti.
President Obama has chosen to follow a well-worn script — looking for political advantage by pretending to protect voters from the evils of the marketplace.
Ostensibly their purpose is to reduce turnover of labor and stabilize employment. But they tend to freeze a worker in his job.
In the history of social and political thought, myriad proposals have been offered as solutions to the problem of social order. Many believe that the search for a single "correct" solution is futile and illusory. Yet a correct solution does exist. The solution is the idea of private property.
For the most part, the Great Society represented the culmination of economic, political, and intellectual developments dating back a century.
The goal of those who regulate the laundry is not to improve your life. It is to wreck your life a bit at a time by pressing increasing numbers of restrictions and mandates upon private producers. Time to end the conspiracy of silence.
The government has a huge collection of assets that could be sold to the private sector. Going, going, gone!
You can chart the course of human progress in terms of how clean our clothing is. In early times people used animal skins, had no change of clothing, and had no soap. Then history turned on a dime toward progress — until recent regulations.
