Comments on: Big Nanny is Watching You http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/6370.html Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago boys including those pictured above. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:37:46 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: niko http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/6370.html/comment-page-1#comment-276789 niko Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:49:43 +0000 http://chicagoboyz.net/?p=6370#comment-276789 You'd better be careful what you write, you never know who's reading.....homegrown subversives don't represent a nation and could be illegal combatants....... You’d better be careful what you write, you never know who’s reading…..homegrown subversives don’t represent a nation and could be illegal combatants…….

]]> By: Shannon Love http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/6370.html/comment-page-1#comment-276520 Shannon Love Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:23:10 +0000 http://chicagoboyz.net/?p=6370#comment-276520 David Foster, <i>The phrase “nanny state” may be a somewhat misleading and dangerously comforting one.</i> That's true but it also captures the danger in even well intended programs. David Foster,

The phrase “nanny state” may be a somewhat misleading and dangerously comforting one.

That’s true but it also captures the danger in even well intended programs.

]]> By: David Foster http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/6370.html/comment-page-1#comment-276512 David Foster Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:56:24 +0000 http://chicagoboyz.net/?p=6370#comment-276512 The phrase "nanny state" may be a somewhat misleading and dangerously comforting one. A human nanny always knew the kids personally, and usually had at least some feeling of affection for them. Neither of these conditions is true for government agencies. The phrase “nanny state” may be a somewhat misleading and dangerously comforting one. A human nanny always knew the kids personally, and usually had at least some feeling of affection for them. Neither of these conditions is true for government agencies.

]]> By: Shannon Love http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/6370.html/comment-page-1#comment-276502 Shannon Love Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:30:13 +0000 http://chicagoboyz.net/?p=6370#comment-276502 MsCassandra, <i>Is there any place where things are better? What is to be done?</i> I think the only thing we can do is try to fight the expansion of government power. We all need to break of the habit of thinking the government should enforce what we personally believe is right whether that involves economics, the environment or marriage. More long term, I think that history shows that government will expand continuously until it encounters competitive pressures or it loses the mechanism of power. Globalization will limit the ability of government to parasitize economic growth. The spread of the internet and international banking combined with the evolution of untaxable "black money" might reduce the power of government to tax and regulate. MsCassandra,

Is there any place where things are better? What is to be done?

I think the only thing we can do is try to fight the expansion of government power. We all need to break of the habit of thinking the government should enforce what we personally believe is right whether that involves economics, the environment or marriage.

More long term, I think that history shows that government will expand continuously until it encounters competitive pressures or it loses the mechanism of power. Globalization will limit the ability of government to parasitize economic growth. The spread of the internet and international banking combined with the evolution of untaxable “black money” might reduce the power of government to tax and regulate.

]]> By: MsCassandra http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/6370.html/comment-page-1#comment-276486 MsCassandra Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:40:24 +0000 http://chicagoboyz.net/?p=6370#comment-276486 Is there any place where things are better? What is to be done? Is there any place where things are better? What is to be done?

]]> By: Danny L. McDaniel http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/6370.html/comment-page-1#comment-276482 Danny L. McDaniel Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:22:44 +0000 http://chicagoboyz.net/?p=6370#comment-276482 Financial bailouts, New Deal, Great Society, the "Greening" of the American economy with no growth prosperity, etc. What can an American do without having the activity taxed, regulated or subsidized? We have lived in a "Nanny State" for at least seven decades. Unfortunately, no matter who wins the Presidential election on November 4th the social welfare state will grow bigger, more powerful and intrusive, and alot more expensive. The contest for what is leftover of democratic capitalism is between twittle-dee and twittle-dumb, and it looks like the latter has it. Danny L. McDaniel Lafayette, Indiana Financial bailouts, New Deal, Great Society, the “Greening” of the American economy with no growth prosperity, etc. What can an American do without having the activity taxed, regulated or subsidized? We have lived in a “Nanny State” for at least seven decades. Unfortunately, no matter who wins the Presidential election on November 4th the social welfare state will grow bigger, more powerful and intrusive, and alot more expensive. The contest for what is leftover of democratic capitalism is between twittle-dee and twittle-dumb, and it looks like the latter has it.

Danny L. McDaniel
Lafayette, Indiana

]]> By: Ginny http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/6370.html/comment-page-1#comment-276468 Ginny Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:31:02 +0000 http://chicagoboyz.net/?p=6370#comment-276468 And there's no free lunch. And there’s no free lunch.

]]> By: Mrs. Davis http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/6370.html/comment-page-1#comment-276465 Mrs. Davis Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:11:49 +0000 http://chicagoboyz.net/?p=6370#comment-276465 Some people never heard that he who pays the piper calls the tune? Some people never heard that he who pays the piper calls the tune?

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