Quote Of The Day

H.L. Mencken sagely observed,
"[I]f experience teaches us anything at all it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. His very existence, indeed, is a standing subversion of the public good in every rational sense. He is not one who serves the common weal; he is simply one who preys upon the commonwealth"

Adds Thomas DiLorenzo:
"Not all plunderers live in the D.C. area, of course. Economists Richard Vedder and Lowell Galloway once documented that there is a substantial (20–40 percent) "income premium" in every state capitol compared to the average income in the rest of the state.

As Americans celebrated their democracy during the recent elections, which will not change how their government is run in any significant way, they proved once again that we have become a nation of chumps and suckers."