Quote of the Day
Posted By Russ Emerson on October 17, 2008 at 9:35 pm
On the financial crisis:
Extraordinary crises sometimes require extraordinary measures. The danger is that the extraordinary could become merely ordinary.
Obama is no Robin Hood
Posted By Russ Emerson on October 16, 2008 at 3:13 pm
I’d really like someone to try to explain to me how, exactly,
I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, they’ve got a chance at success too. I think when you spread the wealth around it’s good for everybody. *
can be differentiated in any meaningful sense from
From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.*
I don’t think it can be.
The past few days, I’ve had a number of hits from search engines, people searching on “Robin Hood” and either “socialism” or “socialist” — the searches leading to this scribbling of mine from 2003: Robin Hood Was Not a Socialist. The important bits:
- Robin Hood did not steal from the rich to give to the poor.
- Robin Hood stole from the taxman to give back to the taxpayer.
I’ll stand by that.