The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency.
All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity.
But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself,
and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world.
The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Meghan McCain's Moving Eulogy For Her Dad, John
Which Major Economy Grew Last Year But Reduced Carbon Emissions?
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Is it time for the 17th Amendment to be repealed? YES. It's time to restore Senate deference to Constitutionally-based individual state interest vs. corrupt special interests. https://t.co/AsGzJyINSU— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) September 2, 2018
Tom Woods, a fellow libertarian, in his latest email is irritated that he lost another Facebook follower because of his classless shot at McCain, (I left after he took a cheap shot at Romney.) Woods defended himself by quoting someone who had a Saul-like conversion to hearing him— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) September 1, 2018
A thought game. A supermarket cuts its cost per store brand loaf to 25 cents, no limit. How many loaves do you buy? You only have so much available refrigerator/freezer space. How much do you value bread gone stale?— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) September 1, 2018
How is it that the vast majority of workers work above the minimum wage without some megalomaniac Statist bureaucrat dictating wages? Why is it that companies only hire so much lower-cost labor if government "subsidizes" it?— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) September 1, 2018
Going back to this crackpot Sanders notion of having corporations rebate government welfare costs for qualifying workers, it really means paying a surtax for hiring adults vs. dependents. If dependents do comparable work for the money, what irrational employer hires adults?— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) September 1, 2018
More to the point, only a tiny fraction, if any, of corporate jobs are minimum-wage. Moreover, if you'll looking to get compensation savings from workers, why would you target those making the least money? It's a lot easier and more efficient, say, to target those making $100K+.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) September 1, 2018
This "living wage" nonsense is pure rubbish. Where is the incentive to educate or train yourself for a well-paying position, scarce job skills, etc if corrupt political whores could simply achieve it by mere fiat? I sacrificed multiple years earning modest stipends for my PhD.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) September 1, 2018
This irrational belief that we can force employers to pay a "just" wage is madness. The way you build a business is to offer competitive prices for goods and services by keeping costs under control. Worker compensation is a cost. Real subsidies would encourage more low-pay hires.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) September 1, 2018
Meghan McCain's eulogy of her beloved father John is one of the most moving I've ever heard. Probably the most quoted will be an indirect jab at Trump, to the effect America has never lost her greatness (as I and others have also said). https://t.co/lzPQkYFK7X— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) September 1, 2018
Tucker Carlson is a conservative-in-name-only. His sympathy for Sanders' tax on corporation for workers who quality for public assistance is equally economically illiterate and perverse. Mullen's analysis is spot on. https://t.co/gR9E2ikmqi— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) September 1, 2018
I can see it now: employers will ask if you qualify for any public assistance program. If yes, "We can't use you. Have a good day, and good luck in your future endeavors."— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) September 1, 2018
Barack Obama probably had the best line at today's McCain funeral service. He joked that McCain's request for him to speak at the service was a genius trick to get him to say something nice about John.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) September 1, 2018
Bernie Sanders and his fellow leftist parasites don't want to hear my response to offset the costs of our welfare state: eliminate the costly, morally-hazardous, bureaucratic welfare state. His "solution" is exacerbating the unemployment problem for lower-income job-seekers.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) September 1, 2018
Bernie Sanders, the economically illiterate political whore, wants to tax corporations for any public assistance claimed by employees. Of course, this would be raising costs on hiring heads of lower-income households, I predict a preference for hiring middle-income dependents.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) September 1, 2018
The Gray Lady is all excited about a Manafort lobbyist who apparently "illegally" tried to buy tickets to the Trump Inauguration. Selling inauguration tickets to foreigners is illegal? What kind of a retard wrote that into law? I would have paid Russians to take mine if I had any— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 31, 2018
This is not to say as a libertarian, I didn't have substantive differences with McCain on policy, including a bias towards foreign intervention and a tilt towards Teddy Roosevelt-style populism. But, unlike Woods, I'm not a self-promoting propagandist.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 31, 2018
What historian-in-name-only Tom Woods doesn't tell you about John McCain is that he opposed Reagan's involvement in Lebanon and Clinton's interventions in Haiti, Yugoslavia, and Somalia. McCain was a critic of Bush's war in Iraq, of US policy on torture, and of Pentagon spending.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 31, 2018
I am not a fan of Tom Woods, a fellow Catholic libertarian. He's an apostle to the Austrian School of Economics. But hearing him bash McCain in his hero worship of Ron Paul is a bit too much. https://t.co/w9r2ENNalO— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 31, 2018
I wonder what Mexico got out of Trump's renegotiated trade deal: maybe he's no longer allowed to sell fake Mexican food at his properties.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 31, 2018
The "progressive" censors at Facebook are caught removing a posted NPR report link on school shootings as "spam". NPR, not a libertarian/right-wing source, did an investigation of school shootings reported in Obama's last year: over 2/3 never happened. https://t.co/HZk4mNfBrL— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 31, 2018
The last time I read the Ten Commandments, God condemned those who lust after the goods/earnings of others. The free market is win-win, a growing pie, not a zero-sum game. Capitalism increases the standard of living for EVERYONE. #WorkersDeserveMore— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 30, 2018
You parasitic bastards, thinking you have a "right" to the money earned by others, Envy is a vice, not a virtue.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 30, 2018
Those who "boycott" In-N-Out don't eat there. People who eat there have noticed Bible verses on everything--wrappers, cups, etc. How many "progressive" businessmen do that? Personally, I would prefer shorter lines; yeah for me! #BoycottInNOut— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) August 30, 2018
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