"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Post-Sandy: A Man-Made Disaster
"In a society in which economic law was widely understood, legislators and prosecutors who sought to prevent price increases in cases of emergencies would be regarded as public enemies; they would be barred from office with the utmost public contempt and ridicule for their ignorance and destructiveness."
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