Current Commonplace Tidbits

I'm skimming The Coming Economic Earthquake Revised and Expanded for the Clinton Agenda by Larry Burkett written 1991/1994.

Here are some interesting tidbits.

to read recommendations:
Losing Ground by Charles Murray
What Ever Happened to the American Dream by Moody Press

ok now the quotes:

Dr. Bruce N. Ames says in regards to the EPA ban on commercial pesticide use that there are more carcinogens in 1 cup of coffee than in all the foods you eat in an entire year. He further comments that Americans won't like finding worms in their corn or weevils in their bread and they won's like the price they will pay for the food they need. ((because organic means less crop due to pests and etc so they will charge more for the food that survived))

p29
The damage that can be done to our economy as they (gov't) expand social programs and government regulations, will bring this economy to a grinding halt.

p24
Our economy could expand by 30-50% and our budget could be balanced in 5 years - just through deregulations and government downsizing.

some info he wrote in 1994 regarding the health security act of mz Clinton

p209
The last time our government decided to fix a national problem, it was welfare. That fix has made life in the city a living nightmare and keep in mind, the entire welfare program is less than one-fifth the size of the health care system that prez Clinton is attempting to fix.

p210
...before Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, most Americans didn't believe it was the government's responsibility to feed and house the poor, provide medical coverage to the elderly, or guarantee cradle-to-grave social programs for every man, woman, and child.

p211 bumper sticker
If you think healthcare is expensive now, just wait until it's "free".

The very structure of more regulation and control will destroy the existing system and make it impossible to reverse the change-over.

what will result is an oligopoly (not a monopoly) where a market situation in which each of a few producers affects but does not control the market.

p213
It is naive to think that the federal government can operate anything more efficiently and at less cost than the private enterprise system.

p212 -- personal fave
Remember the adage: Those who fail to learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. Unfortunately, we are the ones who will pay the price. Neither the congress nor the president will be subject to the system they are designing for the rest of us. (( that's why they don't care about social security, they don't ever have to live off it, just pretend to care about our elderly and spend it under the table))

as the Pastor said this morning, "Decisions made today affect/effect tomorrow and beyond. Calculate carefully and precisely."

Matthew 13:31-32 -- that tiny mustard seed gonna be a big plant, give it room.