Activist: "Your cows are putting carbon into the atmosphere."
Farmer: "Where did they get it?"
Activist: "What?"
Farmer: "The carbon. Where did the cow get it before it put it anywhere."
Activist: "From... eating?"
Farmer: "From eating grass. And where did the grass get it."
Activist: "The soil?"
Farmer: "The air. The grass pulled it out of the air last spring. The cow ate the grass. The cow breathed some of it back out. It went back into the air it came from."
Activist: "But it's still going into the atmosphere."
Farmer: "It's going back. There's a difference between a thing going somewhere and a thing going back. You've described a circle and you're frightened of it."
Activist: "Then just don't have the cow."
Farmer: "The grass still dies in autumn. It rots where it falls. The carbon goes back into the air either way, just without anyone getting fed in the middle."
Activist: "It's not that simple."
Farmer: "It's grass, cow, breath, grass. Or it's grass, rot, air, grass. Same circle, fewer dinners. If that's complicated for you I'd stay away from the water cycle. That one's got clouds in it."
Time in Federal Government…
Alexander Hamilton: 5 years
George Washington: 8 years
Thomas Jefferson: 10 years
John Adams: 12 years
Bernie Sanders: 35 years
Nancy Pelosi: 39 years
Mitch McConnell: 41 years
Chuck Schumer: 45 years
It explains everything.
Founders vs Grifters
Hayek explains why even intelligent people are drawn to socialism:
“One’s initial surprise at finding that intelligent people tend to be socialists diminishes when one realizes that, of course, intelligent people will tend to overvalue intelligence, and to suppose that we must owe all the advantages and opportunities that our civilization offers to deliberate design rather than to following traditional rules, and likewise to suppose that we can, by exercising our reason, eliminate any remaining undesired features by still more intelligent reflection, and still more appropriate design and ‘rational coordination’ of our undertakings.”
Saying “health care is a right” sounds compassionate, but the meaning is very different from what people assume.
A right means something you can exercise without forcing anyone else to act.
Speech is a right.
Property is a right.
Self-defense is a right.
They require no other person’s labor.
Health care is a service provided by doctors, nurses, researchers, manufacturers, builders, engineers, and support staff.
It has to be produced.
It requires training, time, expertise, equipment, facilities, and resources.
To claim health care as a right is to claim a right to the labor of other people.
And if others must provide it to you whether they choose to or not, that is not a right.
That is ownership over their time, effort, and life.
The idea that people “deserve” goods and services simply by existing implies that someone else must be sacrificed to provide them.
Not paid voluntarily.
Not chosen through exchange.
Forced.
A society cannot function on the belief that one group is morally entitled to the work of another.
That is how every civilization that embraced it ended in collapse:
The moment you treat human beings as resources to be claimed, you have already abandoned the concept of human rights.
"We are the first administration in 123 years that achieved a zero-deficit after interest payments.” -Javier Milei
The standard bearer of Free Market Capitalism, is also the standard bearer of the balanced budget & the budget surplus.
Milei is FREEDOM!