The Media Simply Does Not

I Find It Ironic How New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg Is So Focused On Such Small Issues As Drink Sizes, While Ignoring The Massive Infrastructure Challenges In New York - Lousy Roads, Third-world Airports, Traffic Jams, Etc.

The Reality Is That Business And Investment Spending Are The True Leading Indicators Of The Economy And The Stock Market. If You Want To Know Where The Stock Market Is Headed, Forget About Consumer Spending And Retail Sales Figures. Look To Business Spending, Price Inflation, Interest Rates, And Productivity Gains.

Taxation Is The Price We Pay For Failing To Build A Civilized Society. The Higher The Tax Level, The Greater The Failure. A Centrally Planned Totalitarian State Represents A Complete Defeat For The Civilized World, While A Totally Voluntary Society Represents Its Ultimate Success.

Balance In Life Is The Key, As Aristotle Taught Us. Nobody Likes A Naive Pollyanna, But Neither Do We Like To Be Around People Who Are Constantly Complaining And Finding Fault.

Most Of Marx's Predictions Have Failed To Materialize, And His Labor Theory Of Value And Other Ideas Have Been Proven Wrong. Marx Failed To Recognize The Incentive System Built Into The Capitalist Model - Consumer Choice And The Profit Motive Of The Entrepreneur. The Irony Is That Capitalism, Not Socialism Or Marxism, That Has Liberated The Worker From The Chains Of Poverty, Monopoly, War, And Oppression, And Has Better Achieved Marx's Vision Of A Millennium Of Hope, Peace, Abundance, Leisure, And Aesthetic Expression For The 'full' Human Being.