Spenwah! Poliblog!

Minimum wage hurts poor people. I have every Nobel laureate economist on my side. This was a response to an acquaintance of mine after the expected "greedy bastard" remarks.
You are scrubbing floors for $5.15 per hour. It sucks, and it's hard work, and you do a good job. Suddenly the politicians decide they're going to do you a favor and raise your salary, because your greedy ass boss is obviously exploiting you. So they...

Uh Oh. The layout is f****d. I'll fix it soon. Cross my heart.
I just found this tasty bit in my inbox in the latest Reason Express. It's their Quote of the Week.
"We are not the speech police. The FEC does not tell private citizens what they can or cannot say, on the Internet, or elsewhere" - Federal Election Commissioner and amateur comedian Ellen Weintraub on new FEC regulations....

Stated as articulately as it is true.
You show me a polluter and I’ll show you a subsidy. I’ll show you a fat cat using political clout to escape the discipline of the free market and load his production costs onto the backs of the public.
The fact is, free-market capitalism is the best thing that could happen to our environment, our economy, our country. Simply put, true free-market capitalism, in which businesses pay all the costs of bringing their products to market, is the most efficient...

I'm sorry there haven't been posts here in a while. I'm going through something big right now, and I'm not quite myself lately.
Tim West's new blog is up, LibertyForSale.com. I'm going to take Tim's advice, get rid of the snooty tooty name for this blog and rename it simply Spenwah!, as soon as I'm back on my feet....