@rosenthal_uri Bijzonder, 1,4 miljoen Moslims in Nederland, lijkt mij logisch dat die invloed gaan hebben in de Nederlandse politiek.
Naïviteit is niet lief!
@MonaKeijzer De vraag is, hebben we nog een partij nodig op rechts?
Meerderheid in Nederland stemt rechts van het midden, maar links beleid is wat we krijgen.
Oorzaak hiervan is onder meer #Geertwilders (tijd voor pensioen?) zijn partij is disfunctioneel en verzwakt het rechtse blok.
@MonaKeijzer De vraag is, hebben we nog een partij nodig op rechts?
Meerderheid in Nederland stemt rechts van het midden, maar links beleid is wat we krijgen.
Oorzaak hiervan is onder meer #Geertwilders (tijd voor pensioen?) zijn partij is disfunctioneel en verzwakt het rechtse blok.
@rosenthal_uri Bijzonder, 1,4 miljoen Moslims in Nederland, lijkt mij logisch dat die invloed gaan hebben in de Nederlandse politiek.
Naïviteit is niet lief!
Hayek finished the job of obliterating the entire socialist project in 1945 with one devastating insight: the knowledge needed to run an economy does not exist in any one place.
It is scattered across millions of minds – the farmer who knows his field, the shopkeeper who knows his street, the engineer who knows his machine – and only prices can gather it. No planner can collect it, because most of it cannot even be written down. The socialists spent the next eighty years building bigger ministries to collect it anyway.
And yet here we are, watching politicians explain that this time it will work, because now they have data, experts and algorithms. They cannot tell you how many nurses a single hospital will need next winter – how exactly are they going to know what three hundred million people want, need and can make, every day, in every town?
Every Soviet shop with left shoes only, every empty Venezuelan shelf, every five-year plan fulfilled on paper was just Hayek being proven right. He left the planners one sentence to hang over their desks: "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design." But sure, let's give the committee a supercomputer. What could go wrong?
The Kraków attack and the reactions afterwards amplified and made clearly visible that there are three groups in our societies:
First, decent people, on both sides of the political spectrum, right and left. Their natural initial reaction was to think of the victims, mourn and pray for them and their families, to contact their relatives or friends should they be in Kraków. They got deeply moved by the heroic police officers, who risked their own lives to save lives of others.
Second, if after what happened the left will keep repeating their slogans to „defund the police“ or even giving all policemen insulting names, then they have really lost the connection to reality, and even the most basic human values. We should thank all police officers doing this so tough and dangerous job. They protect us, our families, and the social order in our cities. The countless officers wounded during the recent riots in Europe, and the heroes of Kraków deserve our deepest respect.
Third, the Kraków events made it very clear, that some of those calling themselves „patriots“ or „true Christians“ hold crosses in their hands, but have pure hatred in their hearts. Their initial reaction wasn’t to pray for the victims, it wasn’t to thank the police officers. Their immediate reaction was to blame the police and the government for the tragedy, to question the nationality of the attacker, to sow division and hatred for political gain. They are not patriots, they do not represent what Christian values stand for. With their deeply shameful and disgraceful reactions they couldn’t be farther from that.
I want to be in the first group. What about you?
There is no such thing as a perennially "monetarily sovereign" nation.
All nations' currencies reflect the solvency and creditworthiness of the issuer, and its status as a reserve asset is not dictated by the issuing government but by private sector demand.
Thinking the government can abuse the money supply at will always leads to the demise of the reserve status. Always
Energiekosten zijn maar 1 van de factoren in een bedrijf. En dat kan je volgens de Stientje, die zelf nog nooit een onderneming had of in een bedrijf werkte, prima compenseren met ‘efficiëntie’ (wat ze dan weer nooit op zichzelf en de overheid toepassen) zodat je weer concurrerend wordt. Ga dat maar eens aan bedrijven uitleggen. Ze snapt gewoon niet (en haar ambtenaren ook niet) dat energie hét basisingrediënt is van productie en dat er nog nooit een land welvarend is geworden op basis van dure energie en extra belastingen.
De Franse politicoloog Jérôme Fourquet heeft onderzoek gedaan naar de rellen in #Frankrijk. Van de verdachten die na de plunderingen en vernielingen voor het hekje stonden, heeft 75% een Arabisch-islamitische of Afrikaanse voornaam. De @NOS informeert ons daarover niet. 1/5
Sommigen rekenen op 'de overheid' of 'de sterkste schouders' voor hogere lonen, lagere prijzen en blijvende welvaart. Maar het zal toch van de eigen inspanningen moeten komen. Graag uw mening over deze column.
https://t.co/kk7QEVCmgo
Charlie Munger was 98 and worth over $2 billion. He watched life get 600% better and people get more miserable. He explained it in one word.
“If you wanted three children, you had to have six, because three died in infancy.”
Then came the airplane, the automobile, the movies, air conditioning.
“Now the principal problem of the poor people in the United States is that they’re too fat.”
So why are people less happy than when things were way tougher?
“The world is not driven by greed. It’s driven by envy.”
“Everybody’s five times better off than they used to be. They take it for granted. All they think about is somebody else having more.”
“Who in the hell needs a Rolex watch?”
“I have conquered envy in my own life. I don’t give a damn what somebody else has.”
Die busjes komen via andere EU-landen. Tegenhouden en terugsturen dus.
Het verdienmodel van de mensensmokkelaars onderuit halen kan maar op één manier: Nederland maximaal onaantrekkelijk maken.