Robert G. Morris

Husband, Father, Grand Father, Retired Airline Pilot, Author, Enthusiastic Supporter of Negative Entropy.

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

Exactly. It’s completely bonkers.

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

I know a brilliant 34 year old Brazilian paediatric oncologist with degrees from top European universities, who speaks English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian.

Literally the ideal immigrant.

He was doing a research fellowship in Toronto. But even with my help (a former Immigration Minister,) he couldn’t get permanent residency last year, so left for a top hospital in Texas.

Consider the opportunity cost for Canadian kids with cancer, or his potential fiscal and research contributions. Gone forever.😡

Meanwhile, folks who came here on dodgy study permits and as low skilled TFWs who barely speak basic English get PR to deal with the huge overhang of temporary residents and overstayers from the Trudeau years.

It is impossible to overstate the catastrophic damage done to our immigration system by the Trudeau government.

So could someone explain to me why people like @SeanFraserMP, who presided over one of the greatest policy failures in modern Canadian history, are still in Cabinet?

[Commentary - Sowell Economics @sowelleconomics]

Most people still don’t understand this:

“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”

— Thomas Sowell

[Wayne Dunlap @wdunlap]

Well said!

[Robert G. Morris @Nidan787]

@Turbinetraveler Well done! The pilot's skills were exceptional, especially compared to his company's maintenance standards.

[Robert G. Morris @Nidan787]

@cptdankkk Now that's a smart old guy in a car showroom...🤔

[Canada Proud @WeAreCanProud]

No pride flags and no Palestine flags. Just flags that represent EVERYONE in the classroom.

[John-Paul Berg @SemperVeritasX]

Unfortunately, the vast majority.

[John Aziz @aziz0nomics]

The term "progressive" should belong to people who actually believe in technological and material progress, not to people who believe in regressive ideas like segregation, racial quotas, and Soviet-style-socialism.

[William Marx @william_marx]

La nouvelle est passée presque totalement inaperçue dans les médias français, en raison du Mondial de foot et des incendies : l’intelligence artificielle a réussi à déchiffrer entièrement un rouleau de papyrus carbonisé d’Herculanum, aussi fragile que de la cendre de cigarette, sans le dérouler et sans même y toucher ! On y a découvert un traité philosophique sur le stoïcisme. Il a fallu des trésors d’ingéniosité et de technologie pour parvenir à ce résultat. Le rêve est donc devenu réalité : bientôt, on pourra lire en un temps record les centaines de rouleaux de cette bibliothèque calcinée par le Vésuve il y a 2000 ans, et la littérature gréco-latine s’enrichira d’autant de textes inédits, de nouvelles tragédies ou épopées peut-être. Dans cet été déprimant, voilà un vrai rayon de lumière. Vive la science !

[Estado Mínimo @xestadominimo]

"El socialismo no produce una sociedad sin clases; por el contrario, produce la más estratificada de todas las sociedades, dividida en dos clases: los poderosos y los impotentes; la élite burocrática y las masas manipuladas".

- Margaret Thatcher -

[Robert G. Morris @Nidan787]

@JohnCleese Yes, well for an African falcon that's easy. She could probably do it carrying a coconut.

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

Commandant of Auschwitz Rudolf Höss being escorted to the gallows for his execution, 1947.

Four days before he was executed, Höss acknowledged the enormity of his crimes in a message to the state prosecutor:

My conscience compels me to make the following declaration. In the solitude of my prison cell, I have come to the bitter recognition that I have sinned gravely against humanity. As Commandant of Auschwitz, I was responsible for carrying out part of the cruel plans of the 'Third Reich' for human destruction. In so doing I have inflicted terrible wounds on humanity. I caused unspeakable suffering for the Polish people in particular. I am to pay for this with my life. May the Lord God forgive one day what I have done. I ask the Polish people for forgiveness. In Polish prisons I experienced for the first time what human kindness is. Despite all that has happened I have experienced humane treatment which I could never have expected, and which has deeply shamed me. May the facts which are now coming out about the horrible crimes against humanity make the repetition of such cruel acts impossible for all time.

The most haunting photos ever taken: https://t.co/POrqRRccxc

[Nick Leaf @Derricktgoat]

About 30 years ago, Norway decided to create a wealth fund for their citizens rather than offer handouts to buy votes.
Norway pumps 2 million barrels a day. Canada pumps 4 million barrels a day.

Norway has $2.1 Trillion in a wealth fund.
Canada owes $1.47 Trillion in debt.

[Nicky @redrosesgrow]

I find the number of posts demanding that Amanda Knox “keep a low profile” quite depressing.

Why should she? The outrage over this is completely unwarranted- she’s been exonerated and owes no one her silence.

Her decision to share her story is not attention seeking. It’s a brave act of advocacy; she’s using her own personal experience to expose the devastating reality of a major miscarriage of justice and the inhumane way in which she was treated by the justice system and the public. She’s also offering her support to others facing similar legal nightmares.

Demanding she stays quiet unjustly expects her to live in quiet shame. No. She’s innocent. Full stop. Her right to speak her narrative is indisputable.

[Thomas Sowell Daily @DailySowell]

Thomas Sowell on why the left needs people to remain dependent & unwilling to take responsibility:

“The last thing the political left needs, or can even afford, are self-reliant individuals. If such people became the norm, that would destroy not only the agenda and the careers of those on the left, but even their flattering image of themselves as saviors of the less fortunate.”

[Rt. Hon. Alan B’Stard MP @NoWayWoke]

To my knowledge Cleese has always been a liberal.

To now be labelled “far-right” for pointing out some basic “liberal” truths tells you where the real problem lies

[Handre @Handre]

Thomas Sowell spent decades documenting what the Great Society actually did to black American families, and the evidence is brutal if you're willing to read it honestly.

In 1960, before Lyndon Johnson signed a single piece of Great Society legislation, roughly 22% of black children lived in single-parent homes. By 1980, that number had climbed past 50%. By 1995, it was near 70%. Slavery didn't produce those numbers. Jim Crow didn't produce those numbers. A federal welfare apparatus that penalized marriage, rewarded dependency, and treated fathers as financial liabilities produced those numbers. The Aid to Families with Dependent Children program (AFDC) made a man's presence in the household a disqualifying factor for benefits. Washington literally paid women to be unmarried and paid them more for each additional child. You design incentives, you get outcomes. This is not complicated.

Sowell's deeper point, the one that gets buried, is that black family stability was actually improving before federal intervention accelerated. Black poverty rates fell sharply between 1940 and 1960, before the Great Society existed. Black entrepreneurship, fraternal organizations, and two-parent households were all trending in the right direction under conditions that Great Society architects later described as hopeless. The War on Poverty didn't rescue a broken community; it interrupted a recovery.

Free market thinkers from Sowell to Walter Williams explained that price floors on labor (minimum wage laws), urban renewal projects that bulldozed black business districts in cities like Cincinnati and Atlanta, and the school assignment systems that trapped poor children in failing institutions all compounded the welfare trap systematically. Each intervention generated a problem that justified the next intervention. Government failure reliably became the argument for more government.

The cruelty here is structural. Politicians got votes. Bureaucrats got budgets. Social workers got caseloads. And three generations of children grew up without fathers in the home, with all the documented downstream effects on education, incarceration, and earnings that researchers have been tracking ever since. Everyone in that system got what they wanted except the people the system claimed to serve.

[Robert G. Morris @Nidan787]

@oelma__ Yes. Feb 8, 2007; the day that Anna Nicole Smith died and the entire news media machine did nothing but spew out the drama for an entire week and everything of real consequence was ignored. And worse, most people didn't even notice that things of consequence were being ignored.

[Handre @Handre]

Ludwig von Mises sat down in 1920 and published a paper that ended the intellectual case for socialism, even if the socialists took another seven decades to notice.

The argument was precise. Mises showed that without private ownership of the means of production, there are no real prices for capital goods. Without prices, you cannot calculate profit and loss. Without profit and loss, economic planners have no way of knowing whether they are creating value or destroying it. They are flying blind, spending real resources with no feedback mechanism telling them whether the factory, the railway, or the grain depot was worth building. Every allocation becomes a guess dressed up as a decree.

This, he called the Socialist Calculation Problem, and nobody answered it. Oskar Lange tried in 1936, proposing that socialist planners could simulate prices by trial and error. Mises read this and was unimpressed (charitably put). Lange assumed you could reproduce the function of market prices without the institution that generates them: private property, genuine exchange, real skin in the game. You cannot fake the signal and expect accurate information.

The Soviet Union spent seventy years proving Mises right. Chronic shortages, misallocated steel, surplus winter boots in Georgia in July, famine engineered by committees convinced they understood grain supply better than the price system. The USSR collapsed in 1991 under the weight of precisely the inefficiencies Mises predicted in Vienna in 1920.

You are watching this play out again today, every time a government sets energy prices, rent ceilings, or pharmaceutical price caps, and then expresses shock at the resulting shortages. The calculation problem did not expire with the Soviet Union. Bureaucrats who override price signals recreate the same blindness Mises identified. Mises told you exactly what would happen.