Why Students Don’t Value School
Unfortunately, my experience with current undergrads is proving me wrong.
Unfortunately, my experience with current undergrads is proving me wrong.
Paradoxical as it might first seem, the more liberal a state is internally, the more likely it will engage in outward aggression. Internal liberalism makes a society richer; a richer society to extract from makes the state richer, and a richer state makes for more and more successful expansionist wars
Since abilities and interests are naturally diverse, a drive toward making people equal in all or most respects is necessarily a leveling downward. The key issue in the entire discussion is simply this: shall the parent or the State be the overseer of the child?
A smarter and more resolute government would not fritter away scores of billions of dollars annually on producing, deploying, and maintaining an array of weapons systems fit only for fighting a USSR that no longer exists.
Once and for all, I'm going to target the main motivation for minimum wage advocates in academia: politics.
The poor are able to acquire household items that in some cases no one, rich or poor, could have had even a generation ago, and on terms that no one else is willing to extend to them.
The problem for the survival of a market economy arises when the voters permit or encourage the expansion of government power to such an extent that private businesses can gain short-term profits through the intervention into the competitive market by state officials.
What the American worker needs is more of what Wal-Mart offers and less of what the government offers. If we could then fix the Fed so that it would no longer water down the value of our money, we'd never have to worry about declining real wages again.
It is comfort food, a breakfast that we eat when we are very young and very old.
Apart from the saving grace that the companies are adding value to the society, it is a jamboree of politically correct, anti-development, guilty, and dishonest people — those who have no concept of how wealth is created. They have no interest in the environment or the poor.