A thought for the day

August 22, 2010 | SoundOffSister | |

Apropos of my one of my  posts yesterday on green energy, I thought you might be interested in this. It is from Saturday’s Wall Street Journal’s “Notable & Quotable” section. 

P.J. O’Rourke gave the following remarks at Radio Free Europe in Prague:

The free market is not an ideology or a creed or something we’re supposed to take on faith, it is a measurement.  It’s a bathroom scale.  I may hate what I see when I step on the bathroom scale, but I can’t pass a law saying I weigh 160 pounds.  Authoritarian governments think they can pass a law–a law to change the measurement of things.

They can’t.

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The Sound Off Sister was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and special trial attorney for the Department of Justice, Criminal Division; a partner in the Florida law firm of Shutts & Bowen, and an adjunct professor at the University of Miami, School of Law. The Sound Off Sister offers frequent commentary concerning legislation making its way through Congress, including the health reform legislation passed in early 2010.

5 Comments

  1. winnie888 on August 22, 2010 at 3:05 am

    SOS….when you "go back to work" you go back to work! I thought I was the only unfortunate up at this time on a Sunday morning!

    While our govt. is made up of elected officials, they are certainly behaving as if they are unaccountable as in an authoritarian govt.

    P.J. O'Rourke uses the word "faith".  I suppose that "hope" is not measurable, either? Oh, dear.  Very disappointing.



    • Gary J on August 23, 2010 at 2:06 am

      Good Idea,faith,hope and charity————sorry that is taken, Beck.



  2. Dimsdale on August 22, 2010 at 5:24 am

    You mean that Øbama can't alter the laws of physics?  😉



    • winnie888 on August 23, 2010 at 12:44 am

      could have sworn he said he could in a campaign speech somewhere…Double disappointed.



    • Law-AbidingCitizen on August 23, 2010 at 8:46 am

      He certainly can't alter economics; he can, however, change his appearance, he is the perfect chameleon.



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