Humans have trouble with economics, as you may have noticed, and not just because economic circumstances sometimes cause them to starve. Humans seem to have an innate inability to pay attention to economic principles.
P. J. O'RourkeIntelligence collection has been given an additional bureaucracy to correct the problems created by too much bureaucracy in intelligence collection.
P. J. O'RourkeI like to take things that are boring-but-important and try to make them interesting. That was definitely what I was after with Eat The Rich.
P. J. O'RourkeThere is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as "caring" and "sensitive" because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money. Well, who isn't? And a voter who takes pride in supporting such programs is telling us that he'll do good with his own money - if a gun is held to his head.
P. J. O'Rourke