Something To Think About Archive

Mark Twain called April 1st, “… the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other 364 days of the year.”

Earlier this month was the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations” that should be required reading in Washington and the White House. Smith argued that a nation’s wealth is derived from its production and flow of goods and services. Mercantilism was in control in England at the time and Government intervention on behalf of the merchant class, as it does today, led to cronyism, and trade protectionism such as tariffs hurt consumers by limiting their purchase options and increasing prices.

As the great statesman and orator Daniel Webster said, “There is always room at the top.”

According to British literary critic Churton Collins, “In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.”

Muhamed Ali once noted that “The man who views the world the same way at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”

Cato the Elder claimed that “After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.”

Greek playwright Menander believed that “The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.”

Kudos to the EPA for repealing the Obama Administration’s erroneous endangerment finding that declared greenhouse gas emissions a threat to public health and safety allowing his and the Biden Administration to regulate CO2 and dictate energy policy for energy supply, cars and even household appliances. Greenhouse gases may affect climate but so does urbanization, wildfires and other natural phenomenon.

Author and Poet Margaret Sangster believed that “The people who dream are very often the people who see, and dreaming and seeing precede doing.”

It’s been said that “A true leader is constantly providing tools that enable independence.”

Author Bret Harte said, “The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.”

According to Calvin Coolidge, “Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”

Retailer F.W. Woolworth believed that “Dreams never hurt anybody if he keeps working right behind the dream to make as much of it come real as he can.”

The SEIU-United Healthcare Workers push for a billionaires tax on the premise that the rich don’t pay their fair share and is the cause of California’s budget problems flies in the face of reality: Gavin Newsome’s recently proposed budget includes $539 billion in spending, up 68% in just seven years and remember that the Top 1% of earners in California already pay about half of the state’s income tax. As we’ve said many times: “Government doesn’t have an income problem, it has a spending problem.”

Abraham Lincoln said: “In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.”

According to Executive Coach John Baldoni: “At its core, leadership involves movement either of people or ideas.”

Nietzsche said, “Without music, life would be a mistake.”

Nietzsche said, “Without music, life would be a mistake.”

According to a Chinese Proverb: “Great men never feel great; small men never feel small.”

The SEIU-United Healthcare Workers push for a billionaires tax on the premise that the rich don’t pay their fair share and is the cause of California’s budget problems flies in the face of reality: Gavin Newsome’s recently proposed budget includes $539 billion in spending, up 68% in just seven years and remember that the Top 1% of earners in California already pay about half of the state’s income tax. As we’ve said many times: “Government doesn’t have an income problem, it has a spending problem.”