Comments on: Statism, the Greatest Threat http://jimbovard.com/blog/2010/11/10/statism-the-greatest-threat/ Author James Bovard Tue, 22 May 2012 21:38:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Jim http://jimbovard.com/blog/2010/11/10/statism-the-greatest-threat/#comment-129055 Jim Tue, 16 Nov 2010 02:44:39 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=2211#comment-129055 Dirk, that's an interesting point about the service sector. The service sector types I see in this neck of the woods probably identify far more with government clerks than with factory or farm workers. Dirk, that’s an interesting point about the service sector. The service sector types I see in this neck of the woods probably identify far more with government clerks than with factory or farm workers.

]]> By: Jim http://jimbovard.com/blog/2010/11/10/statism-the-greatest-threat/#comment-129054 Jim Tue, 16 Nov 2010 02:43:34 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=2211#comment-129054 Lawrence, I always referred to that type of wrap as a "lambskin." Since I was raised near West Virginia, women got nervous if I made any reference to sheep and sex in the same sentence. Lawrence, I always referred to that type of wrap as a “lambskin.”

Since I was raised near West Virginia, women got nervous if I made any reference to sheep and sex in the same sentence.

]]> By: Lawrence http://jimbovard.com/blog/2010/11/10/statism-the-greatest-threat/#comment-129052 Lawrence Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:43:00 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=2211#comment-129052 Jim, thanks for the good analysis. One question, however. When you wrote the following, were you using "sheepskin" in the sense of a condom? "Nowadays, Jim, thanks for the good analysis. One question, however. When you wrote the following, were you using “sheepskin” in the sense of a condom?

“Nowadays,

]]> By: Dirk W. Sabin http://jimbovard.com/blog/2010/11/10/statism-the-greatest-threat/#comment-129050 Dirk W. Sabin Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:42:41 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=2211#comment-129050 The rise of the so-called "service sector" and its direct tie to increased statism is not an accident. The vaunted "private sector" and the government become two sides of a bureaucratic coin with large sectors of the population shuffling papers or pressing buttons on a computer or cash register and almost wholly divorced from the production of tangible things of worth. One easily becomes a spectator in this kind of environment, a kind of human livestock, prodded by endless platitudes and conventional pieties. The rise of the cockeyed notion of the Unitary Executive, with its many sunbeams in the media insures that corrosion will enjoy full license while nervous and jerky partisanship will maintain the illusion that this nation remains a representative democracy. The rise of the so-called “service sector” and its direct tie to increased statism is not an accident. The vaunted
“private sector” and the government become two sides of a bureaucratic coin with large sectors of the population shuffling papers or pressing buttons on a computer or cash register and almost wholly divorced from the production of tangible things of worth. One easily becomes a spectator in this kind of environment, a kind of human livestock, prodded by endless platitudes and conventional pieties.

The rise of the cockeyed notion of the Unitary Executive, with its many sunbeams in the media insures that corrosion will enjoy full license while nervous and jerky partisanship will maintain the illusion that this nation remains a representative democracy.

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