Daniel Hannan: Financial regulation

(Sort of like what the ‘Detroit’ video one post ago said:  the more regulation you have, the more you strangle the goose that lays the golden eggs…)

The Tragedy of Detroit: “It Didn’t Have to Be This Way”

 

Me, quoting Saul D. Alinsky – who would have ever thought…

From ‘Rules for Radicals:  A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals’ by Saul D. Alinsky:

(Pg4 of the ‘Vintage Books Edition, March 1972)

“To diminish the danger that ideology will deteriorate into dogma, and to protect the free, open, questioning, and creative mind of man, as well as to allow for change, no ideology should be more specific than that of America’s founding fathers:  “For the general welfare.”