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Jay's Tuesday Free Enterprise Quote

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Home Inspector with Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC 3380-000723

"The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else."

                                            Henry Hazlitt

Would that everybody understood that simple concept!  How many people would walk around their neighborhood and knock on their neighbor's doors and ask for money to buy a Hover Round, hearing aid, breakfast and lunch for their kids to eat at school, help with their credit card interest or even another house!  Not many, I expect!

And if I was king, this book would be required reading, with a test to follow, for every American!  Contact me privately and I will send you your own copy!  But you must promise to read it.  I will test you later...

 

 

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Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC  

Based in Bristow, serving all of Northern Virginia.

Office (703) 330-6388   Cell (703) 585-7560

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Comments(14)

John Mulkey
TheHousingGuru.com - Waleska, GA
Housing Guru

Jay - Difficult as it may seem to believe, there are many who don't understand this, assuming the government somehow has its own money.  And that's a major problem.

Jun 29, 2010 02:03 AM
Jay Markanich
Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA
Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

John - I have made that complaint before, as to the paucity of people with any understanding, or teaching, of economics.  All they know is what they hear - you are entitled, you can get, you have a "right," etc.

Find me a high school, or even college, graduate who can define the word "right!"  They'll tell you it means something they should be allowed to do...

Jun 29, 2010 02:10 AM
Mike Saunders
Retired - Athens, GA

Jay - its the whole anonymity thing, faceless people give of their labors to some central entity which then distributes it.

Jun 29, 2010 03:35 AM
Jay Markanich
Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA
Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

One of my favorite economics stories, Mike, is "The Little Red Hen."  Everyone wanted something but not to help in the labor.  In that instance, the laborer was known!

Jun 29, 2010 03:56 AM
Chris Ann Cleland
Long and Foster Real Estate - Gainesville, VA
Associate Broker, Bristow, VA

I don't know why people think that government programs are FREE.  They are most certainly being paid with tax dollars, yours and everyone else in the US. 

Jun 29, 2010 09:56 AM
Steve Hoffacker
Steve Hoffacker LLC - West Palm Beach, FL
Certified Aging In Place Specialist-Instructor

Jay,

Absolutely the number one lesson in economics. Appreciate the post. Very timely. :)

Steve

Jun 29, 2010 10:47 AM
Jay Markanich
Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA
Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

But Chris Ann, why don't more understand that?  So few really understand the import of the current debt we have already built up and they want more yet.

Steve - I had this one in mind last Tuesday, but was busy with that TV post!  This is a good one isn't it?

Jun 29, 2010 01:15 PM
Troy Pappas
Safe House Property Inspections - Virginia Beach, VA
Virginia Beach Home Inspector

There is a sense of entitlement in this country  that is really unbelievable. It seems so many will talk down the country out of one side of their mouth, while they ask for their handout from the other side. It is perpetuated even more when our leaders continue to fund a lot of these programs with money that will have to be paid by future generations. It needs to end somewhere so please send a free copy to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500.

Jun 30, 2010 01:41 AM
Jay Markanich
Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA
Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

Thanks Troy.  First, they aren't "leaders" that foist this on their constituents.  They are ideologues.  Second, send a free copy of what?

Jun 30, 2010 02:21 AM
Steve Hoffacker
Steve Hoffacker LLC - West Palm Beach, FL
Certified Aging In Place Specialist-Instructor

Jay,

This great quote is now featured on "Celebrating Free Entreprise." Congratulations. :)

Steve

Jun 30, 2010 08:53 AM
Steve Hoffacker
Steve Hoffacker LLC - West Palm Beach, FL
Certified Aging In Place Specialist-Instructor

Jay,

This is so good that I recommending it for a gold star. This is a must for everyone to comprehend. :)

Steve

Jun 30, 2010 08:55 AM
Jay Markanich
Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA
Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

Thanks Steve!  What is a gold star?  Like the ones I used NOT to get in school?

Jun 30, 2010 10:02 AM
Not a real person
San Diego, CA

Generally that's true, but governments also have the privilege of printing and coining money, which they can then give to their citizens without taking anything from anyone.

Jul 08, 2010 08:46 PM
Jay Markanich
Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA
Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

Russel - excuse me but WHAT!?  Dr. Hazlitt has a good book called "Economics In One Lesson."  Send me your address and I will be happy to send you a copy!

Oh, I think I already said that!

Jul 08, 2010 11:08 PM