Mangled Thoughts

Been casting around, a bit of a search. We kick off the afternoon’s session with a piece which sums up Victoria, what the Spring St Spivs are doing:

Reducing Poverty by Reducing Governmentby George Reisman,

There is no good reason, for example, for the price of oil to be over $50 a barrel and rising. In a free market, that is, a market not hampered by such things as regulations driven by environmentalist hysteria and a valuation of human well-being below that of caribou, there would be a substantially increased supply of oil from Alaska. There would also

He must also have the Bracks led Govt. in his sights with:

The cost of housing could be reduced by the abolition of zoning laws and all other government interference serving to make land artificially scarce,

The Victorian government has done so with a gusto borne out of sheer malevolence, its `Green Wedge Act’.

The enemies of capitalism and economic freedom shed crocodile tears over poverty. Their policies do not alleviate it but worsen it.

I say, he does have the Bracks govt. in his sights.